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Ken,
I wasn’t referring to all of the DIYand MOTM-conforming folks (Stooges, Oakley, Scott, yourself, etc.) who HAVEmade and offered these conversions. I was directing the question to Paul whomade the claim that HE’s spent thousands doing the same. If he’sreferring to what’s officially available in MOTM format, then I don’thave sympathy his outlay claims. If he’s converted Paia/Blacet or CGS or someother module to MOTM format like the aforementioned folks, then I’d liketo know how I missed that.
Official MOTM is ~44.3% of my panel spaceand 52.9% of my total module count. OMS is in second place with 12% and 12.5%respectively. CGS is third with 9.9% and 8.7%. And Cyndustries, Tellun, Blacet,Haible, Encore, and various other DIY modules make up the remainder: 33.9% and 26%.Power supplies are not mounted in front and therefore are not counted.
I have all three of your Paia/Blacetmodules (actually 2 of each). I also own Jeurgen’s Living VCO prototypethat’s waiting for a front panel. So I am well into the Non-Synthesis Technologiesalternatives. Scott can also vouch for my support of Bridechamber over theyears. I’ve been negligent about reviewing all the new Oakley stuff andthat’s something I will rectify over the coming Winter. Tony makes sometop notch stuff – to the point that I wouldn’t blush at all havinga core OMS system at all. He and Krisp are like the little engine that could.They keep cranking out new and improved modules which Paul claims is not practical.
And lastly I have to one again commendScott Deyo at Bridechamber who has, in my opinion, done more to keep my MOTMsystem alive than anyone else. For me he has become the custodian of theformat. I owe him an order just because…
-Greg
From:motm@yahoogroups.com [mailto:motm@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ken Tkacs
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 201212:59 PM
To: 'MOTM'
Subject: FW: [motm] 5xx series ina MOTM format
>>>Could you enlighten us as to what modules you converted over fromthese other formats to MOTM? This is news to me.--Greg
Converting other modules to MOTM format was all the ragea decade ago. For me it started with finding old Moog, Roland &c schematicson the web and trying to build MOTM-style versions of them. This led to a longseries of emails between J. Larry Hendry and me about converting a couple ofPAIA and three Blacet Research modules in particular – the Klangwerk,Dark Star, and the divider. Larry and I worked out a few little extras forthese (a switch here, an LED or extra output there), and worked out differentways of making our own front panels. Sometime later, Larry & “TheStooges” turned this into a cottage industry, and now of course you canget much better panels from Bridechamber than we were making by spray-gluingpaper to metal back in the day. I used to have a tutorial of how to do this onmy old website, but once people started ‘organizing’ and havingpanels professionally silk-screened, I dropped that method and of jumped onboard with the better panels for sure.
There are still lots of folks on this list who havefantastic stuff on their websites showing how they expanded their MOTM systemsway beyond the official offerings. This is not a complete list and is in noparticular order, but if you’re interested:
http://pugix.com/synth/category/modules/
http://www.dragonflyalley.com/billAndWillMOTMSynth.htm
http://www.tellun.com/motm/darmok/darmok.html