Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

a) Although I have not been able to ship as much as I planned the last 3 weeks,
the ∗next∗ 3 weeks I will be able to ship quite a lot. I am 85% caught up on the
MOTM 2.0 orders. I just received 250 3-pot Stooge brackets, so I am fully
stocked. Spectrol has quoted the 248J log pot at a reasonable price (although I
have to buy 500 all at once) but I will place that order Monday.

I am fully committed to "zero out" the backlog, ALL of it, by Oct 1st. at the
∗latest∗. I am actually shooting for Sept 1 but chances are my "real job" will
prevent that. I have to run some more MOTM-650 boards, that will probably be the
last of the backlog to ship (I have pcbs stuffed for about 10 more as of today,
and all 10 of these are going to ship by the 25th).

Tomorrow I am going to make up all of the remaining MOTM-510 WaveWarper kit
backlog and all of the MOTM-900/950 backlog. Next, I have to ship around 24 Frac
modules to AH. This will be followed by ∗all∗ of the VCO backlog (kits and
assembled) and the remaining assembled backlog. This will take all summer.

b) All of that being said: R&D of new MOTM modules is ∗still ongoing∗. I'm just
not talking about it 'publicly yet. I have buying $100s of dollars of
development tools (both HW and SW) since Jan. getting the preliminary designs
ironed out. I will have at least 4 new MOTM modules in prototype form by Q4. All
of these are not "vanilla" type modules. They are unique to MOTM.

In the past, I have asked assistance $$$-wise to 'charge ahead' prior to
shipping. With the new shopping cart, I am going to try a new marketing tact. I
am going to offer "early-bird" pricing for people that PayPal or give that early
charge permission. This will be for a limited number of units (say the first
25). I will do this when I have production-worthy prototypes ready to be
released for board stuffing. The remaining modules will ∗not∗ appear in the cart
until the day they are READY TO SHIP. Now, this gap will more than likely be 6-8
weeks. But the reward for those that wish to participate is they get a lower
price and get their units first.

What modules are we talking about?

MOTM-520 Cloud Generator
MOTM-810 VC ADSR EG
MOTM-720 VC Pulse Divider

and a not-yet discussed module. I will say it will be 2U wide, require the
MOTM-950 or equivalent (requires +5V), and there is ∗nothing like it ever∗ that
I am aware. Now, some people will actually snicker when they see it (and the
price, no doubt) and I may not sell all that many. But it will probably the most
∗talked-about∗ module in the MOTM lineup :) The module itself has fairly
straight-forward HW but quite sophisticated SW (we hope to use the same uP, an
Analog Devices ADuC7026 ARM processor that is in the Cloud Generator). Once the
prototype is running, I will post some demos.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: MOTM is not 'slowing dying out' as some may
think. Just the opposite, actually. There are still ∗many things to build∗. Ever
want a Serge TKB-like touch sequencer? Think they cost a lot? Well......(cough
cough).

Lastly, thanks to Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers for selecting MOTM as
their new analog modular. Another MOTM-440 convert :)

Paul S.