Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

a) I have built MOTM-900 and MOTM-950 power supply kits up for all of the
existing backlog. If you are owed a power supply kit, please email me with
the Order # and I will ship theis week. This speeds things up versus
searching through the order database (SQL queries not all that easy to use
in the existing framework).

b) Worked most of last week and all weekend on assembled module orders. MOTM
2.0 orders are 95% caught up. Wed-Sunday the #1 issue is kitting MOTM-300s.
My MOTM time will be limited the middle 2 weeks of October, but shipping
MOTM kits in October is what I am going to focus on. Note: there are still 2
MOTM-300 VCO kits left to buy. I also plan to ship the last week of October,
all of the MOTM-510 kit backlog.

So, by Nov 1st, the plan is to have <20 kits remaining to be shipped. These
are the few left-over kits that GC Fuller in Indiana were not able to ship
at the end of last year (like VCFs, a few MOTM-190s, etc). I'm also going to
release this week to the pcb house the MOTM-910 Mult pc board, so these will
all ship around Nov 8th.

c) I have 10 weeks remaining for 2007 (I close Dec 15th, reopen Jan 15th).
It has not been "smooth sailing" as I hoped, but looking at the backlog 10
weeks will be enough time to ket all the "old stuff" out the door, so I can
focus on what I've been wanting to do for the last 2 years: R&D! The focus
of new R&D is to create modules that have an 'immediate and dramatic effect'
by being added to your existing systems (and to spur non-MOTMers to get with
the program). Believe me, I have ∗lots∗ of module ideas. Enough for at least
8 ∗new modules∗. Being free of providing end-user kits will allow me to
offer more 'Buchla-esque' stuff for all the bug music lovers out there :) I
am ∗extremely motivated∗ to flush out the backlog and get on with the design
end of things. I have been saving capital dollars for Q1 2008 in order to
buy the reels of SMT parts needed to rapidly build 100s of modules (guessing
about $6200). Waiting 2 years for delivery will be just old news. Just wait
and see :)

Paul S.