MOTM

Paul, when your product is solid and the support system is reliable, others
entering the market can only raise awareness and excitement for modulars in
general. I would be really surprised if the appearance of these other
players took away any of your business. More likely, as young synthesists
start taking notice of these analog developments, they will start asking
questions about the field and will be directed to MOTM. Not that I'm new to
synthesis (or particularly young), but that's how I found you-someone just
dropped a comment on a chat room somewhere, "If you need a stable VCO, you
*have* to check out what MOTM is doing..." And once you start asking around,
you start hearing very favorable reviews.

(T-shirts & ball caps help, too.)

Did you ever play the old "SimCity" urban planning simulator? One
interesting effect that it models is that if you zone a small area as
'commercial,' it does _so-so_ business. But if you make ten adjacent
commercial zones, rather than competitors starving each other out as you
might expect, they _all_ flourish. Maybe that's a little too rosy, but it is
an observable marketing effect.

I can't wait to see the big 5-page MOTM review in Keyboard Magazine. I've
seen D***f*r a few too many times now. I almost want to make some outrageous
purple racking system for my MOTM just to get it in the wacky "Keyboard of
the Month" column to give a little exposure to our corner of the world. But
I think the cabinets I'm planning will be too tasteful for that,
unfortunately.

Here's looking forward to module 5000!