On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Kenneth Elhardt wrote:
> The 450 fixed filter being shelved seems more to do with Paul S. adhering so
> stubornly to those expensive pots and knobs and whatever else, to the point
> where anything that uses more than just a few of them becomes so impractical
> in terms of price that nobody wants to buy it anymore. The original
> estimated 450 kit price was $190, then it went to $260, then to $380, then
> to over $400. That's why there aren't many potential customers for it.
> Maybe for something like the 450 it's time to drop the seeled pots and other
> overpriced stuff (I still remember the thread about suppliers screwing MOTM
> on part prices, which gets passed on to us) and do it in a practical way.
> If you buy a 15 band Doepfer fixed filter bank for $160 assembled, but an
> MOTM 8/10 filter bank would cost over $400 in kit form, something is wrong.
That stuborness is one of the reasons I'm a motm customer. It's the
commitment to signal path quality. Sure, I could get the doepfer modules,
but sometimes I don't like hearing my clock line/powersupply/evening news
in my signal path.
I'd rather paul ditched a module than his principles, they're what I spend
the bucks for, if they weren't I'd still have a doepfer.
For all your low cost knob needs there's dotCom, they make a fine fixed
filter bank:
http://synthesizers.com/q127.html--mikest