MOTM

Will and I will want one.  Bill



--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, thomas white <djthomaswhite@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>