MOTM

The list seems to be running fine, just not a lot of new posts. I have 
insomnia tonight so here is my 3:30am response.

I have been quite due to building my second (lower) wood cabinet for my 
MOTM. Details include: Poplar Hardwood from Home depot ($60 total) with pine 
mounting rails and hand drilled holes for brass machine screw inserts. 2 
rows of 20u that is slanted ever so slightly on the front panel. My cabinet 
is 10" wide at the top (which is really 9.5" or so) and 12" at the bottom. I 
left a 4.5" vertical base to the cabinet to possibly mount my Kenton Pro-4 
and 1u breakout panel smack dab in the middle of the front. I don't have a 
jig saw so this will be added later if it looks like it needs it for balance 
of image after the cabinet is full of modules. The extra space at the bottom 
of the cabinet also puts the bottom of the lowest row at the top of my 
controller keyboard. This brings my MOTM to 80u and I will actually have 60u 
full now. Don't know where I'll keep putting these modules after this 
cabinet. Maybe I will make an even lower row with keyboard stand/garage type 
thing and sturdy legs and support system for 5 rows of 20u and the modules 
themsleves all leaning ever-forward in their wood homes.
Only time will tell with this I guess. The first coat of stain is on and a 
second cometh in the morning. Poplar with Provincial Minwax stain and the 
rub on poly Hendry and Bradley use. Looks easy enough. Anything I should 
look out for guys?

Controller: As you know I recently built the 2 different joystick modules 
and I have been thinking about the controller thing for a while since. Big 
question is does anybody have a source for ribbon controller ribbons or even 
clues where to start? I would reslly like a simple one of these along the 
left side of my planned controller. Also on there I want the following:

2 or more joysticks with selectable polarity and range per axis (just like 
my panel mounted jobby. Due to the joysticks available with no center-return 
function I think 2 will stay either or as far as polarity and not be able to 
sweep into negative is positive is selected. Maybe 4 joysticks on the panel, 
2 like this an 2 bi-polar with same type of range pot set up. No polarity 
switch for the bi-polar ones.

VU Meter, Mouser used to sell a (15v)-(0)-(+15v) DC model for a pretty 
penny. Would be great to patch into this and see what happening with 
voltages. Anybody ever used one of those automatic voltage LED displays that 
uses red read-out to display voltage (like an alarm clock style letters) I 
see these but have no experience with them and think it would be neat to 
have the VU meter on the front of the controller to be digital red read-out 
with a + or - on the display to indicate polarity. Maybe the response time 
would be more accurate over a moving coil vu?

Ribbon Controller: Ribbons ribbon ribbons, whos got the ribbons? Will be an 
easy design if we can just find the ribbons. Range pot and threshold pot for 
the gate out?

Sliders: 4 or 8 mixer-like sliders that have a range pot and polarity switch 
at the bottom of each or are bipolar with center detents. Below each slider 
could also be a gate button so you can set up the controller to fire 4 
pre-determined "notes". A COOL feature here would be to have some sort of 
sequencer thing going on where an external clock would cycle through the 
four sliders obviously forward. Would be a fun mini sequencer type effect 
and cool for performance. Have a gate dependant start/stop jack so you can 
turn this thing on/off with the MOTM pedal interface while playing live. 
Throw down the sequenced whammy with your super ultimate controller module.

Gate buttons: As said above I want one for each slider. Maybe add a "Hold" 
switch and jack out with 5v constantly. Could also use to fm LFO's and VCO's 
for higher range too.

Another cool thing all together would be a dual LFO module with each LFO 
rate controlled by a separate joystick axis. Fun bender for sure. Anyways 
sorry for the 3am rant but I needed to get it out. What do you guys think? 
Lets meet in the middle and screen a panel so we can all build little custom 
wood boxes to mount it to. Ciao'

Thomas White

>From: "sucrosemusic" <sucrosemusic@...>
>To: motm@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [motm] List Slugishness
>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 03:59:30 -0000
>
>Is it just me, or is the list running really goofy-like?
>
>We should establish an alternate mailing list/discussion group in
>case yahoo.com folds.  Any suggestions?
>




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