Having extolled the virtues of digital modules, I'm still interested
in unusual analog filters. What about a wide-range dome filter with
inverters, allowing us to derive quadrature outputs from any source?
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "edgard_varese" <decho3@...> wrote:
>
> I think that the SMT modules will sell. I suspect that the slow
> divider sales are caused in part by saving for the cloud generator. I
> understand that you wanted to start with an easier module, but people
> have been watching th CG for years. The most interesting MOTM modules
> to me are the CG and the 102. I'm a west coast guy with little need
> for a rack full of filters. I would love to have them, but I can't
> afford it. I'm building clones of the Buchla 291 and 292 instead.
> Since there are options in MOTM format for basic analog modules, any
> new analog modules should be quirky. A vocoder would be great, but JH
> is working on one.
>
> I end up coming back to digital modules. One thing that is keeping
> large formats relevant is the explosion of new digital/analog hybrids
> from MOTM and Modcan. After the CG, I would love to see some more
> additive pitch sources. Either an oscillator or perhaps some kind of
> VC pitch shifter/harmonizer. I would love a sampler or a
> multi-operator FM/AM, etc. generator similar to the Plan B model 30,
> rather than with the fixed ratios, discontinuous wave changes and
> strict phase locking of the Modcan VCDO. So, I suppose that my vote is
> for SMT R&D, but the order of release is critical. I'm one of the many
> who can no longer buy modules regularly. The divider is cool, but I
> need pitch sources and the 102.
>
> --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@> wrote:
> >
> > Don't get me wrong, the esoteric stuff is great. But I want to build
> upon a
> > core, well-spec'd, MOTM quality, analog system.
> >
> > I would be curious to know what essential modules, not available
> from other
> > sources, are still missing in the MOTM line.
> >
> > This is what the previous discussions have distilled down to:
> >
> > a) if I spend all my R&D time on 'esoteric', SMT-only modules, will
> they be
> > sold in enough quantities to be worthwhile?
> >
> > b) if there are other, modules I need to focus on ('blank board
> friendly' or
> > not) then what are they?
> >
> > c) is my R&D time better spent doing more filters, panners, peramp
> that sort
> > of thing?
> >
> > Paul S.
> >
>