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Subject: Re: [motm] Update

From: James Elliott <johans121@...>
Date: 2007-07-16

This is exciting news! I can't wait to get my 650 & VCO's!!
 
-Jim Elliott


----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Schreiber <synth1@...>
To: MOTM litserv <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 3:11:29 PM
Subject: [motm] Update

I won't have to travel much for the next 11 days, so lots of MOTM will ship out
the door.

a) 25 MOTM-650 pc board sets are being assembled by the contract manufacturer
this week. I should get the board sets Friday. This set of 25 should cover ∗all∗
existing '650 back-orders.
And have like 5 extras :)

b) I am still on track to ship all VCO kits and power supply orders by the end
of the month. I still have
a few assembled MOTM-300s left to ship, those are tedious to make and calibrate.
But 6 are shipping
tomorrow so I am making progress.

c) I will send the prototype LiteEngine pc boards out to fab later this week.
When they come back and
I get them built up (1st week of August) I'll set up a web page and I hope
people will offer suggestions
for the 36 presets. Just to get you started, there are 2 inputs (Left/Mono and
Right) that are sampled.
We can make amplitude (volume) measurements, and we can split the signal into a
set of fixed BP filters
(like a "color organ") and measure the energy content in each band (we are still
crunching on the math/DSP
routines, but will have a minimum of 10 bands. Trying for 14). There is 1 CV
input called MOD that can
be whatever you program it. It's just up to your imagination.

The "output" is a matrix of RGB LEDs. There are 8 horizontal and 16 vertical or
128 total (they are 5mm, pretty big).
Each LED can be one of 63 colors (and #64 is off). So, SW routines can read the
2 input channels and the MOD CV
and then "do something". The most obvious is a bank of 'VU Meters' like
peak-hold. And all sorts of spectral displays.
And text as well. I'm open for suggestions (there is a LOT of code space and a
LOT of internal RAM in this ARM
processor, so that is not an issue).

Paul S.




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