MOTM

Great, I was just about to start building two of these. How long 
have they been out, anyway? I often like to use an EG to 
modulate one VCO of two VCO patch (ala Lyle Mays) and it's 
starting to sound like the 800 would be unusable for this. BTW, 
I've heard the D brand EG has a droopy sustain, making it also 
difficult for this application. Paul, can we have an FCO? <- (that's 
engineer talk I learnt when I used worked on 1 Gigabyte hard 
drives that were the size of a washing machine) :-)

Barry

--- In motm@y..., elhardt@a... wrote:
> This in concerning problem #1, the 800s shooting up over 6 
volts based on 
> knob settings and playing style.
> 
> I've tried everything to get those MOTM-800s to behave with no 
luck.  Those 
> included using the addition of a trigger from the Kenton (Paul's 
> recommendation), trying a Doepfer Midi-CV module, trying a 
straight CV and 
> Gate output from a Jupiter-8.  No change in behavior at all.
> 
> My Doepfer envelopes work just as expected with no 
increasing voltages 
> building up no matter how I set them, although they needed a 
trigger fed into 
> their retrig input to get multi-triggering to work from the Kenton 
for some 
> reason.  The MOTM doesn't need that.
> 
> And I've noticed what Craig Critchley mentioned.  If I bring the 
Attack up 
> past 2, then these voltage problems mysteriously go away, but 
so does the 
> percussive Attack.
> 
> The question is whether Paul / somebody can look into a mod 
that can be done 
> to correct this problem?  I'm trying to synthesize percussive 
Carlos type 
> sounds and need to play Bach with all kinds of fast 
ornamentation which seems 
> to be the worst case senario for the MOTM envelopes.  And I'm 
sure others who 
> actually play the keyboard must be running into the problem 
too.  It's 
> plagued me from day one.  Using Doepfer envelopes is only a 
temporary and 
> messy fix.
> 
> -Elhardt