Should be of interest over here...
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Schreiber [mailto:
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Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 10:35 AM
To: Kenneth Elhardt; Analogue Heaven
Subject: Re: [AH] E560 Deflector Shield Video
> Nobody else has a Morphing
> Terrarium or Deflector Shield, so you'd think these were exclusive MOTM
> inventions. Now I find out we're just talking about another wavetable
> oscillator and frequency shifter.
>
Errr..they ARE exclusive to MOTM designs.
a) it's called "Marketing" (or as Dilbert likes to say: drinking and
guessing). The trend ∗in Euro∗ was started by Harvestman, whose modules are
named Piston Honda, Stilson Hammer, and so on. (Ken scrambles to look up
Harvestman on Google).
b) The Morphing Terrarium is ∗NOT∗ just a wavetable oscillator (sniff). It's
the ∗ONLY∗ wavetable oscillator with continous ∗voltage controlled∗ waveform
interpolation, and in ∗2 dimensions simultaneously∗ . So, it follows a
'terrain map' of the 8 x 8 wavetable indexes (terrain >> 'terrarium').
I just if Ken was in charge of marketing it would be the "2 Dimensional 3rd
order interpolating morphing wavetable oscillator" which is hard to fit on
the panel :)
c) This might be viewed by some as a 'stretch', but my Euro modules all
start with the letter 'E' and the 300 series are VCOs so a E350 MIGHT be a
Euro series VCO. Like I said, a bit of a stretch here. I wonder what a E440
would be?
d) I admit the E560 'Deflector Shield' was a friendly poke to Harvestman,
but the name was picked from over 50 sunbitted by people over at Muff's.
Yes, there are ∗multiple∗ analog synth forums....imagine that!
e) Again, the E560 is ∗NOT∗ "just a frequency shifter", it's also a 10-stage
phaser and a ring mod AND it has 8 different carrier waves that you can
(wait for it............) ∗voltage control∗ morph between them. And did I
mention it also has full voltage-control over 3 other parameters? No?
Because it's still in beta :) But there has been posts at (cough) Muff's
when I announced it after I got the prototype hardware going (again, that
'Marketing Thing' that allows me to stay in busines all these 13 years
despite all my issues with delivery).
Please list below other frequency shifters that have voltage control over 4
parameters AND variable carrier waves. Opps, there aren't any :)
f) This is going to sound sort of "counter-productive", but the #1 reason I
don't have any info on my MOTM site is that I can't meet demand as it is.
The Euro modules have sold above expectations and I am now starting my 3rd
run of 200 modules. Again, once I get close to NAMM time I will be updating
the site with much more info.