This would be awesome!
I have been waiting for this and really look forward
to the 810 2U version. You can make some amazing slow
forming sequences with a VC-ADSR and a MOTM-380 quad
LFO. I was playing around with this earlier today with
my ∗cough∗ Oakley VC-ADSR. Nice module but the
exchange rate for the PCB's killed me.
Paul, even if the pots are in stock can we expect this
to happen sometime anyway?
Thomas
--- Paul Schreiber <
synth1@...> wrote:
> After I ship the 18 or so MOTM-800 kits on order,
> and the 12 assembled ones,
> I will be out of 1M log pots. The problem is (and
> always has been), that
> these are never a stock item and so I have to order
> them as a custom. Which
> is 16-18 WEEKS delivery and a 600pc minimum order.
> Sometimes they will
> accept a 400pc order, but the last time I bought
> these was in Nov of 2005
> and they made me take 600.
>
> So, if after tomorrow calling and begging, if I
> can't get them to sell me
> like 150 (which will last me at least 1 year) I am
> going to retire the
> current design and switch over to an SMT version of
> the MOTM-1800 Frac EG
> which ∗internally∗ has both CV control of all
> parameters and the
> looping/burst stuff.
>
> In order to be "form, fit and function" with the
> existing MOTM-800, these
> fancy features will not be implemented. From the
> "outside" the function will
> be exactly like the existing MOTM-800.
>
> I can add all the fancy stuff, but that would go to
> a 2U wide module
> (MOTM-810) to add the 2 extra jacks and the 4 extra
> pots (plus switch,
> pushbutton and [gasp] LED).
>
> You would figure a 1M log pot is not that 'rare' in
> the real world, but
> distribution mostly stock is linear 1K, 5K, 10K and
> 50K. Even 100K linear
> can be an issue to locate.
>
> I will keep you posted on the Great Bourns Pot Hunt
> of 2008. The 100K linear
> pots for all the other modules is not an issue, I
> have over 400 of those
> sitting here :)
>
> Paul S.
> reason #488 why stuff takes so long to ship
>
>
Thomas White
Natural Rhythm
www.naturalrhythmmusic.com