MOTM

Hi all,

I now have 3 MOTM VCO's going in my modular and boy what sounds it can make 
now! I am very pleased with the triple beating effects you can get and the 
ability to simulate 3 fingered chords. Does anybody plan to have 8 VCO's as 
a polyphonic synth with 2 VCO's per voice making 4 keys of polyphony 
possible? I have the Kenton Pro which can assign polyphony so I am now 
thinking of the long term goal of polyphony. Daves monster (and Guddamned 
awesome by the way Dave!) looks like it can make it happen and I am curious 
how many out there plan on polyphony... at least within the obvious 
affordable future Ha!

For a minimal 2 VCO per voice setup this what I think you could get away 
with. Let me know your opions about it or your way of doing it:

each voice could be as minimal as...

2 x MOTM 300 VCO
1 x MOTM VCF You choose
1 x MOTM 110 VCA
1 x 800 ADSR

Of course my real vision is at least 2 filters per key held down and 2 800's 
for each as well, maybe 3. And of course the next VCA to be released will 
allow for dual processing of voices, halving the VCA count. For me the ADSR 
thing is very important. I use one on every filter always and VCA for sure. 
This gives so much more complexity to the sounds possible. If you patch the 
800 ADSR Positive out into FM2 on a filter and the negative out into FM1, 
you can use the reversible attenuator to make them both positive or enjoy 
the effects of small amounts of both responses.

This technique is fun to patch the positive sides to your VCFs as normal and 
patch the negative sides to the VCF next to the one you had patched to 
before, therby having each ADSR have effect on 2 filters with each filters 
ADSR tweaking causing realtion to the other. OK this is rambling. The 
flashing red light went off so I will go now. I have a feeling that 
polyphony may be more popular a vision now that a lot of us have basic 
monophonic systems going. I can't help but wonder about the power of the 
MOTM chords with the 2 VCO per voice flexibility. Its got to be a majestic 
thing. I will hopefully oneday find out in person, on my own, with these fun 
Guddamn kits I put together as a twisted sort of therapy for myself. Ring a 
bell anyone

Thomas White

PS. Good to have yahoogroups back in effect, it was a lonely couple of weeks 
in the e-mail box. Long live MOTM ,the hobby that you can't quit!
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