Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

rcn writes: >>Imho, the inelegance is that you need too keep all of these
different adapters and Y-cables, and sift through them to find the cable you
want, as opposed to only one type of cable. I've used Radio Shack cables in
the past and they simply are not reliable.<<

I had one Radio Shack cable fail after three days. Yes, some of them are crap.
The Y-cables seem a bit better made. However, it's those other splitter devices
I'm saying are the most useful, and they aren't cables at all. They're plastic
adapters with male/female connectors on them. There is not much that can fail
there. I've been using them since I've had my MOTM with zero problems. Just
having a handful of them sitting ontop of a modular doesn't cause major
disorder. People have different patching styles. But for many people, patches
that use fewer cables reducing clutter and allow banana plug type daisy
chaining is a nice advantage.

In fact I'm thinking about putting in a CV/Gate bus like John Mitchell did on
his Synth.com. That would reduce more cable mess in a patch. I wish that were
built into the MOTM from the start.

-Elhardt