Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

To answer your question:
Could I build you one ;)

The answer is yes I COULD. :)

But it wouldn't be as good as the one Paul S. could build you.
I used to be a design engineer for a living. I had fully intended
to build my modular from scratch until I found SynthTech. There is
no doubt in my mind whatsoever that Paul (and jhaible) are much
better design engineers than yours truly. It is also far easier for
me to buy a kit from Paul than to go at it from scratch. If you
have built any of the Blacet or Oakley conversions I'm sure you
appreciate how much easier Paul's kits are (not to say anything bad
about either Blacet or Oakley.)

What I was trying to point out was that doing the design is only the
first step. For me, getting attractive panels made is more of a
hassle than actually designing a circuit this is why the Stooges do
us all such a great service. Add in the nightmare of getting all the
parts together, writing instructions and HTML, going to trade shows,
and putting up with all of us complaining, doing PCB layout (YUCK!)
How about cutting and tinning all those little coax cables?

On a more personal note I'm sure once I finally get caught up on
building modules (my personal backlog is down to six but I have 26
more on order) I will design some of my own. At that point, if I
come up with anything unique or interesting enough and if I think it
is up to Pauls standards I will see if he is interested. But Pulse
Dividers (interesting as they may be) are not really that high up on
my list of must haves. I'm much more interested in VC delays and
Vocoders.