At 09:10 AM 10/3/2006, Jay wrote:
>DotCom is boring just because so few third-party suppliers have taken up
>the task of producing visually compatible modules for it. MOTM would be
>quite boring as a synthesizer by itself without Oakley, ModCan, etc. I'm
>switching to MOTM format because it's so easy to order a panel from FPE
>and make whatever I want.
The dotcom line is the most vanilla of all, with the possible
exception of the Q96X series. I find your implication that the MOTM
and dotcom lines are similar in scope to be off base. For starters,
Synthesizers.com offers only 1 oscillator and 2 filters; compare that
to MOTM, with a multitude of interesting filters and oscillators.
Compare what seem to be similar modules and you'll usually (if not
always) find more features on the MOTM stuff. Like, the dotcom ADSR
doesn't have a trigger input, so you have to kludge a way to
retrigger it. Compare the VC switches and note that only MOTM has the
clickless audio switching mode. If you compare the Lag modules you
find, well, no comparison. And so on.
Now, the dotcom line is also the best value in large scale modulars,
IMHO. That's why my small-but-slowly-growing modular is made up
mostly of dotcom modules, which form the "core" of the synth. As
modules are added, however, they tend to be MOTM, Blacet, Encore,
DIY, etc. As you say, it's nice (for us, if not for Paul!) to have a
variety of companies offering MOTM-compatible products. I'll likely
add more dotcom stuff, too, but I've got almost all of the vanilla that I need.
--
john