MOTM

This would be awesome! 

I have been waiting for this and really look forward
to the 810 2U version. You can make some amazing slow
forming sequences with a VC-ADSR and a MOTM-380 quad
LFO. I was playing around with this earlier today with
my *cough* Oakley VC-ADSR. Nice module but the
exchange rate for the PCB's killed me. 

Paul, even if the pots are in stock can we expect this
to happen sometime anyway?

Thomas

--- Paul Schreiber <synth1@...> wrote:

> After I ship the 18 or so MOTM-800 kits on order,
> and the 12 assembled ones, 
> I will be out of 1M log pots. The problem is (and
> always has been), that 
> these are never a stock item and so I have to order
> them as a custom. Which 
> is 16-18 WEEKS delivery and a 600pc minimum order.
> Sometimes they will 
> accept a 400pc order, but the last time I bought
> these was in Nov of 2005 
> and they made me take 600.
> 
> So, if after tomorrow calling and begging, if I
> can't get them to sell me 
> like 150 (which will last me at least 1 year) I am
> going to retire the 
> current design and switch over to an SMT version of
> the MOTM-1800 Frac EG 
> which *internally* has both CV control of all
> parameters and the 
> looping/burst stuff.
> 
> In order to be "form, fit and function" with the
> existing MOTM-800, these 
> fancy features will not be implemented. From the
> "outside" the function will 
> be exactly like the existing MOTM-800.
> 
> I can add all the fancy stuff, but that would go to
> a 2U wide module 
> (MOTM-810) to add the 2 extra jacks and the 4 extra
> pots (plus switch, 
> pushbutton and [gasp] LED).
> 
> You would figure a 1M log pot is not that 'rare' in
> the real world, but 
> distribution mostly stock is linear 1K, 5K, 10K and
> 50K. Even 100K linear 
> can be an issue to locate.
> 
> I will keep you posted on the Great Bourns Pot Hunt
> of 2008. The 100K linear 
> pots for all the other modules is not an issue, I
> have over 400 of those 
> sitting here :)
> 
> Paul S.
> reason #488 why stuff takes so long to ship
> 
> 


Thomas White
  Natural Rhythm
www.naturalrhythmmusic.com