Ken,
I wasn’t referring to all of the DIY and MOTM-conforming folks (Stooges, Oakley, Scott, yourself, etc.) who HAVE made and offered these conversions. I was directing the question to Paul who made the claim that HE’s spent thousands doing the same. If he’s referring to what’s officially available in MOTM format, then I don’t have sympathy his outlay claims. If he’s converted Paia/Blacet or CGS or some other module to MOTM format like the aforementioned folks, then I’d like to know how I missed that.
Official MOTM is ~44.3% of my panel space and 52.9% of my total module count. OMS is in second place with 12% and 12.5% respectively. CGS is third with 9.9% and 8.7%. And Cyndustries, Tellun, Blacet, Haible, Encore, and various other DIY modules make up the remainder: 33.9% and 26%. Power supplies are not mounted in front and therefore are not counted.
I have all three of your Paia/Blacet modules (actually 2 of each). I also own Jeurgen’s Living VCO prototype that’s waiting for a front panel. So I am well into the Non-Synthesis Technologies alternatives. Scott can also vouch for my support of Bridechamber over the years. I’ve been negligent about reviewing all the new Oakley stuff and that’s something I will rectify over the coming Winter. Tony makes some top notch stuff – to the point that I wouldn’t blush at all having a core OMS system at all. He and Krisp are like the little engine that could. They keep cranking out new and improved modules which Paul claims is not practical.
And lastly I have to one again commend Scott Deyo at Bridechamber who has, in my opinion, done more to keep my MOTM system alive than anyone else. For me he has become the custodian of the format. I owe him an order just because…
-Greg
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motm@yahoogroups.com [mailto:motm@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ken Tkacs
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012
12:59 PM
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Subject: FW: [motm] 5xx series in
a MOTM format
>>>Could you enlighten us as to what modules you converted over from these other formats to MOTM? This is news to me.--Greg
Converting other modules to MOTM format was all the rage a decade ago. For me it started with finding old Moog, Roland &c schematics on the web and trying to build MOTM-style versions of them. This led to a long series of emails between J. Larry Hendry and me about converting a couple of PAIA and three Blacet Research modules in particular – the Klangwerk, Dark Star, and the divider. Larry and I worked out a few little extras for these (a switch here, an LED or extra output there), and worked out different ways of making our own front panels. Sometime later, Larry & “The Stooges” turned this into a cottage industry, and now of course you can get much better panels from Bridechamber than we were making by spray-gluing paper to metal back in the day. I used to have a tutorial of how to do this on my old website, but once people started ‘organizing’ and having panels professionally silk-screened, I dropped that method and of jumped on board with the better panels for sure.
There are still lots of folks on this list who have fantastic stuff on their websites showing how they expanded their MOTM systems way beyond the official offerings. This is not a complete list and is in no particular order, but if you’re interested:
http://pugix.com/synth/category/modules/
http://www.dragonflyalley.com/billAndWillMOTMSynth.htm
http://www.tellun.com/motm/darmok/darmok.html