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All,
When I assemble modules, I do 5 or 6 resistors at a time. Gather, bend
leads, stuff board, solder, inspect, clip, inspect again. What works well
for me is the cheap, red lead bending guide. I used my dremel to grind the
first 3/4's of an inch of the lead bending tool's thin side down to .4 or
whatever the correct width is. This way I can hold maybe 7 resistors at a
time on the guide and bend the leads in one shot. It works for me, I just
thought I'd share the idea and add to the list's collective knowledge..
There was a question I had for Paul.. Why don't you buy the resistors on
tape, maybe the 10 most common values. (I know you just said that doing every
value would be cost prohibitive) It seems that that would make counting them
out into bags easier for you, and would make sorting out the values for us
kit builders quicker as well..
But Paul, don't listen to our bitches/complaints.. Keep on keepin on.
We're like kids in a candy shop with the MOTM catalog, while you're the lone
confectioner in the back making each piece of candy, I'm amazed at what
you've done already.
. . .<+><+><+>++##!!!!ROCK ON!!!!##++<+><+><+>. . .

Module Idea: If an MOTM VCpulse delay module comes out.. Make the
original pulse available at a panel jack as well as the delayed pulse. My
brand "D" pulse delay is nice, its a dual (two per panel) with knobs for
delay and pulse width, but I really miss not having the original pulse
available on a separate output. Or maybe just one output, with a pot to
control the mix of original to delayed pulse. Like a wet/dry control. From
just the original pulse, to both original and delayed pulses, to just the
delayed pulse. But having the original pulse as a separate jack would
definitely be nice and free up a few mults and patch cords Maybe give the
pulses a pot to control their voltages from -10v to +10v, or make that VC'd..
Oh yeah VC pulse width as well.. This is starting to sound pretty fully
featured, I guess the idea of having two per panel isn't going to happen..
So lets see.. Jacks: Pulse in, Mix CV in, Delay cv in, Original PW cv in,
Original pulse voltage cv in, Delayed pulse voltage cv in, Delayed pulse PW
cv in, mix pulse out. Damn. 8 jacks, OK thats still 2u panel territory..
Another jack that I'd like but I guess wouldn't fit would be the through for
the original, non affected pulse. Knobs: Mix, delay, original pulse
voltage, delayed pulse voltage, original PW, delayed PW. 6 knobs, ok.. Oh
yeah and three bi-color LED's of course, one for the original input pulse and
one for each of the outputs that would go red on positive pulses and green on
negative pulses, staying lit for the duration of the PW. So that's my dream
pulse delay.. I'm just thinking about triggering a bass drum.. bom, Boooom,
tik tik tik, bom Boooom, tik tik tik (everyone knows that "tik" is the sound
of an 808 hi-hat right? ; ) Having the mix of pulses VC'd would definitely
be cool too, kind of like the 700VC switch, but it would fade, not switch
abruptly. And all the other VC stuff.. having one of these and a few 320's
or utility LFO's would be sick. Similar to a cool use for the 820 when it
comes out.. Put it after the 700 and have it smooth out the switching..
anyway.. That seems to be a very MOTM-esque featured Pulse delay if there
ever was one.. Would be like a western (Texas) Dirty Harry .357 magnum
compared to my brand D Ruger.. ha ha ha
Played live lastnight, MOTM and all.. My friend's brother's band played
and as they were playing I'd alternately run their signals and my signals
through the modular. I don't think they were really ready for the extreme
levels I eventually took them out to, but In my state at the time I didn't
give a shit, I was too into the music.. They definitely liked having their
mic's run through my 410 though. Analog bliss. It was fun.. And the
drummer who was supposed to bring the drums never showed up, so I had to give
the other bands drummer a crash course on my DR660 little black drum
machine.. Seeing a drummer behind a big drumset flailing around definitely
is alot cooler looking then a guy sitting in a chair with a lttle black box
on his lap tapping away at the pads with his fingers. Like watching a guy
scrolling through menus on a DX 7 compared to Emerson going off with his big
Moog, pyrotechnic ribbon controller and all.. He got pretty damn good though
by the end of their set and was soloing away and going nuts.. It definitely
sounded better than it looked..

one last thing.. what got me on the whole pulse delay line of thought..
I dont have the modules for this but I'm sure someone does.
3 300 square waves out soft sync'ed, with an LFO controlling each of their
PWM. The 3 LFO's would be set as close as possible to each other in
frequency (maybe one cycle in 10 seconds) Where the pulse delay comes in is
when you shoot the first 320 with a pulse to reset his wave and then that
pulse is delayed and shot to the second 320's sync input, and then the
delayed brother of that second pulse is given to the third 320 to sync to.
I dunno I just thought of it today in my hangover state on my way home..
Don't some synths use PWM as their main synthesis engine? Casios?

okay thats it,
~SteveM