Greg James,
>>Speaking of patches: whatever happened to the patch books that were going
to be published? I got the first one but haven't heard anything more about
them.<<
Hello Greg,
There haven't been anymore as of yet. There are a number of issues with
those. After doing the first one I realized what a pain they are to do, not
that that would stop me. Another, is trying to find patches and sounds that
are complex enough to warrant doing other patch books. For instance, Paul
recommended I might cover brass instruments, and I actually started patching
up my Alesis Ion/MMV style brass patches on it, but I ran out of modules and
the touchy and imprecise nature of the FM on the attacks of notes is very
hard to do on the MOTM. When I cut out some of the complexity I was left
with brass sounds that didn't justify doing a patch book because they were
too simple. I figured I could do vocal sounds and show several ways to go
about getting great choir sounds, but then I have to start using a bunch of
other gear that most people don't have and that leads to complaints.
There's also the problem that these patch books are probably benefitting too
few people. It seems like a lot of work to go through if only 15 people (or
whatever number) are the only receipiants. But I'm still thinking about
what family of sounds might work for other patch books.
I also keep throwing around the idea in my mind that maybe I should just do
a DVD that covers in detail all kinds of stuff including new techniques and
sounds I've come up with that I've never mentioned or made demos of. That
wouldn't be specific to the MOTM, but cover all the stuff I've done over the
years on many different synths. But with synthesis being a dead art, I
never know how many would sell. It would have to get onto Amazon.com like
Carlos' "Secrets of Synthesis" to maybe even justify doing, and still I'm
not sure. I hate spending a lot of time on something that doesn't pay off.
So right now, things are kind of in limbo until I have more time to figure
out what to do.
-Elhardt