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Format Wars

2006-10-03 by Paul Schreiber

> DotCom is boring just because so few third-party suppliers have taken up
> the task of producing visually compatible modules for it. MOTM would be
> quite boring as a synthesizer by itself without Oakley, ModCan, etc. I'm
> switching to MOTM format because it's so easy to order a panel from FPE
> and make whatever I want.

Sitting here in my little studio,  I have equipment from Emagic, Korg, Yamaha, 
tc, Lexicon, Eventide and Roland. NONE of it looks the 'same', I didn't buy 
*any* of it because of what it 'looked like'. I bought it because of what it 
does.

Yet, one of the Many Lessons I have learned is the modular synths are somehow 
*perceived* differently. People, for whatever reasons, are 10X more passionate 
about the *physical appearance* of their modular. Put a MOTM module in their 
.com cabinet? NO WAY!!! Buy 1 little Frac Rack cabinet? THIS OFFENDS MY TASTE 
BUDS!

And these same people have 22 random guitar pedals lying on the floor :)

OK, I'll get off the soapbox. Got modules to ship!

Paul S.

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