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Subject: [motm] Yep

From: elhardt@...
Date: 2002-05-10

This in concerning problem #1, the 800s shooting up over 6 volts based on
knob settings and playing style.

I've tried everything to get those MOTM-800s to behave with no luck. Those
included using the addition of a trigger from the Kenton (Paul's
recommendation), trying a Doepfer Midi-CV module, trying a straight CV and
Gate output from a Jupiter-8. No change in behavior at all.

My Doepfer envelopes work just as expected with no increasing voltages
building up no matter how I set them, although they needed a trigger fed into
their retrig input to get multi-triggering to work from the Kenton for some
reason. The MOTM doesn't need that.

And I've noticed what Craig Critchley mentioned. If I bring the Attack up
past 2, then these voltage problems mysteriously go away, but so does the
percussive Attack.

The question is whether Paul / somebody can look into a mod that can be done
to correct this problem? I'm trying to synthesize percussive Carlos type
sounds and need to play Bach with all kinds of fast ornamentation which seems
to be the worst case senario for the MOTM envelopes. And I'm sure others who
actually play the keyboard must be running into the problem too. It's
plagued me from day one. Using Doepfer envelopes is only a temporary and
messy fix.

-Elhardt