> My $0.02 on that question: bad marketing.
>
> Seriously, I have _never_ heard one sound sample from the 510 that makes
> me want to buy one.
Ahh...therein lies the rub :)
See, again it's a Catch-22. As a designer, I start with a
blank..errr...CAD screen. I then try to wring out some sort of 'sound',
which in turn has to be generated by some sort of physical constraints.
Then, like the Moog filter, Post-It notes, the microwave oven and the
Harley-Davidson intake manifold (where all the noise is from), you might
get lucky (which, from a designer standpoint, is somewhat
irritating/depressing).
I have heard Adam's statement about ∗every single MOTM module∗. It sort of
reminds me when I was looking a buying a new car. I went to carpoint.com,
basically a blog of car owners. Now, if you pick ANY car (and this is from
Yugo to Ferrari), then 80% of the posts are how much the car sucks, and
20% are owners saying this is the BEST car they have EVER owned. Well,
which ∗is it∗?
Case in point: MOTM-485. The HP mode is really bizarre, it appears
'broken' on a scope. However, there are many people that ∗love∗ the HP
mode (a well known synth user bought 4 just for this sound alone, and
these are the only modules of mine he owns besides patch panels). Other
people have sold theirs quickly, shaking their heads over "what was I
∗thinking∗!"
I'm 100% positive that when the Cloud Generator is released (with all
sorts of sound clips), many people will just shake their heads and go back
to the 300>>440>>190 patch. This is because many folks are in the Wendy
Carlos/ELP/Tomita/TD synth camp, and these modules don't "fit".
>
> Speaking as a fickle buyer: some of us MOTM customers are actually _using_
> our systems rather than expanding them indefinitely. Some of us don't have
> the resources (of time, space, and/or money) to expand them indefinitely.
This is certainly true in many cases (well, that and the unsympathetic
wife/GF). I think this is true with MOTM, that banking my son's college
tuition on selling more MOTM-101s is, as they say, 'a bad idea'.
Paul S.