Thanks for asking! I am really embarrassed to admit this, but...
I haven't tried it yet! I built the power supply and VCO weeks ago and I
still haven't fired them up! They are sitting side-by-side on my dining room
table so that I can admire them while I eat, but I haven't actually powered
them up. (Okay, I did turn on the power supply and measure the outputs of
that with my DVM-which were rock solid 15.00 / -15.01, and that made me
very happy.)
Partially, it's a fear that they will both catch fire (my first module...I'm
very superstitious, even with 20 years of electronic tinkering under my
belt), but mostly it's because I have a newborn son that is consuming my
left arm (even now as I agonizingly type this with one finger!) and every
waking hour. I really have to get my wife to take him for a while so that I
can try out my new equipment, but she thinks I'm deserting her when I leave
the room. Plus the never-ending parade of relatives...I never thought it
would be like this. So I apologize to you for not having a report on the VCO
yet. Hopefully soon.
As long as you are on the line, the next two modules I was planning on
purchasing are the S&H and the EG. But as I understand it, both are
undergoing some small upgrades. Do you have any idea when the revised
versions of these might be available...?
Seems stupid for a guy who built a module a month ago and still hasn't
plugged it in to be asking when he can order the next, but... that's the
nature of my upside-down life right now. I just want to keep 'em coming! In
my bachelor days, I'd have signed up with your subscription service in a
heartbeat. But with the new kid & all, I just can't commit like that right
now. Maybe someday.
I can't congratulate you (yet) on the electronics of the VCO, because I
haven't yet heard it, but let me tell you how impressed I am with the entire
package, and with the great care you have taken with the 'mechanicals' of
the module. It's very solid! Nicely done. I would love to know how you
attached hardware to the aluminum faceplate. Certainly not solder. Brazing?
Welding? Beats the hell out of "L" brackets with ugly screws showing up
front.
Definitely something to be proud of for both of us-you for creating it and
me for assembling and just owning it! That's half the reason I think I leave
it on the dining room table-I love people to see those two modules as a
centerpiece and ask, "What are those??" I love showing them off. Wait until
I can actually make music with them!
Thanks much!!!!!!!
-----Original Message-----
From:Paul Schreiber [mailto:
synth1@...]
Sent:Saturday, October 09, 1999 12:50 AM
To:
motm@onelist.comSubject:Re: [motm] MOTM-300 questions/problems...
From: "Paul Schreiber" <
synth1@...>
How did your VCO sound? Any scratchy-ness?
Paul S.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tkacs, Ken <
Ken.Tkacs@...>
To: '
motm@onelist.com' <
motm@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 11:19 AM
Subject: RE: [motm] MOTM-300 questions/problems...
>From: "Tkacs, Ken" <Ken.Tkacs@...>
>
>
>I'm hoping to build my first MOTM-300 VCO kit this weekend,
so I'll let you
>know.
>
>I'm disappointed to hear about the 'scratchy' tuning pot. I
used to use an
>old Electrocomp synth in my college music lab, and with
that VCO you could
>smoothly sweep the oscillator from one end of the audio
spectrum to the
>other with one twist of the big knob (it had a REALLY _big
knob_). So it's
>not 'unavoidable.' Other synths I have used have had less
range, but
>considering the high quality of the MOTM kits & components,
I was really
>hoping for a smooth sweep like you're describing.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Speth [mailto:johns@...]
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 12:13 PM
> To: MOTM List (E-mail)
> Subject: [motm] MOTM-300 questions/problems...
>
> From: John Speth <johns@...>
>
> I'd like to compare notes with other builders to make sure
>nothing is wrong with my VCOs.
>
> 1. Tuning
>
> 2. Dirty coarse freq pot
>
> 3. Hard
>
> John Speth (just trying to understand it all)
>
>
>>
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