Speaking of 1U modules, was the triple preamp supposed to be 1U or 2? And
does anybody remember if Paul ever spoke in any detail about an envelope
follower module? At least enough to say if that one would be 1U or 2?
I agree, more 1U wide modules are needed.
Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@... > -----Original Message-----
> From: Tkacs, Ken [mailto:Ken.Tkacs@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 1:18 PM
> To: 'MOTM Forum All'
> Subject: [motm] Multiples--One man's Opinion
>
>
> From: "Tkacs, Ken" <Ken.Tkacs@...>
>
>
> Personally, rather than have a 2u panel with a million multiples on it all
> in one spot, I would rather have a 1u panel that had 2 or 3 "quads" of
> multiples on it. If I need more (which I would) I would buy two.
>
> Here's my reasoning:
>
> Multiples are one of those 'you never know where you're going to need it'
> modules, and it would be nice to spread them around instead of having one
> massive patch matrix in the corner somewhere.
>
> With the triple "quad" multiple idea, you could make it so that the upper
> left jack in the second and third quad were normalized to the
> quad above it.
> So if you plug jacks in everywhere, you have three independent quad
> multiples, but if you leave the upper left jack out of, say, the second
> quad, you have seven jacks tied together (I'm a bit surprised at those who
> wrote that they didn't need more than a 1-in-3-out multiple block... in my
> experience, I quite often need a lot more than a three-split).
>
> Third, and this may sound silly at first... I think we need more
> 1u modules!
> I know there are more on the way, but right now, all we have is the EG. It
> makes it tougher to arrange module configurations without some
> more 'little
> pieces' to offer options. It's like playing Tetris. You have an EG and the
> only thing you can offset it with right now is... another EG!
> Might as well
> be a 2u module. I actually ∗do∗ have two EGs, but I don't need
> them next to
> each other. So I'm hungry for some of those 1u modules
> (especially the VCO).
>
>
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