heh.. Ken, I think you got it! ;)
George
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From: Tkacs, Ken <ken.tkacs@...>
To: MOTM Forum All <MOTM@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:05 AM
Subject: RE: [motm] MOTM-520 Cloud Generator
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> I think all of the guesses on this module have been far too conservative.
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> I think "Coarse" and "Fine" refer, not to pitch, but to the amount of
"Grit"
> in the final signal. (I originally thought that 'Fine' referred to one of
> the Stooges, as an honorarium, but now that I understand the entire
function
> of the module, I see what its true purpose is.)
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> "Spread" obviously adds some kind of non-butter flavoring to the surface
of
> the sound. I'm glad this is a control, because some of us prefer not to
have
> any spread at all.
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> Any student of history will tell you that "SPR Mod" clearly stands for
> "Senatus Populusque Romanus Modus," which is Latin for "Change in the
Senate
> and the Roman People." By modifying this relationship, I think you can
tweak
> the level and quality of democracy the module will impose of the rest of
> your system (dubious results when you patch it into the 521 Emperor
module,
> though... the latter may get a knife switch in the back... be sure to at
> least add some 526 Soothsayer CV).
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> "FM Mod" is not the standard VCO control, but rather an actual FM radio
tap.
>
> "PH Mod" seems to have everyone fooled. It doesn't stand for "phase" at
all,
> but simply the amount of "acid" content you can add to the sound. You can
> get really "60's" sounds fully CCW, and "house" sounds to the right. (The
> center setting is very "80's" and sounds kind of nasal...) I've seen this
> control on older EMU modulars, but the extreme ranges of the dial were
> labeled "Add Acid" and "Add Soda Ash." Personally, I always found that
kind
> of counterintuitive.
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> "Mode: Wide/Narrow" seems to select how much ice cream gets added to the
> output.
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> The final knob isn't really a knob at all; it is simply a graphic of the
> Schreiber family crest: "Phase Spread Chaos." ('Phase' is from the Greek
> 'phainesthai,' or "to appear to.") This was the motto of the Greek goddess
> Eris, who of course threw the apple marked "To the most beautiful" into a
> group of the other goddesses to cause them to argue amongst themselves (a
> pivotal event in the history of the Illuminati).
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> Which is what Paul does to us when he gets close to releasing a new
module.
> He throws out an apple labeled "Cloud Generator" ...
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> As for the jacks, we have the usual "IV/OCT" ("Fourth Octopus"), FM
("First
> Marking" because he labeled that jack first), "PWM" is "Personal Windows
> Manager" (Macintosh interface expected 1Q 2003), and "SQR OUT" squirts
water
> if you bring your eye close to the hole in the panel. This is clearly
> documented in the manual, and it's Paul's way of getting you to start
> reading it!
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> "SINE OUT" is misspelled, but you have to apply a signal here before
> shutting down your system.
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> Okay, how close am I? Do I win?
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> Mr. T
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