Fw: Update
2003-03-02 by Paul Schreiber
I'm sorry if you see this twice. I have no verification it went out the first time. > Now that the ice has melted, and all of our cars are caked with salt and sand, I can drive to the > post office and actually *ship* stuff next week. And trust me, I know *exactly* how far behind I > am. I just spent 1 hour updating the backlog and planning the building/kitting/parts ordering > schedule for the next 10 WEEKS. > > Assembled backlog (not counting 500/600 series) > > Has reached an all time high! Which is great because Feb. is the traditional slow month here > (folks paying off the last of the Christmas debts and waiting for tax refunds). I shipped 61 > assembled modules in Dec/Jan/Feb with NAMM sucking up 6 weeks of that period. Most of the backlog > is from *new* customers, one all the way from Russia! The majority of the backlog is '190s, '300s > and '800s. I'll be soldering the entire week of March 10th. Right now I'm working on a batch of > 440s. > > Kit backlog (not counting 500/600 series) > > I have stocked completely the '190, '490, '310 and '830. Starting Monday on 48 kits of the '800 > followed by 36 kits of the '300. Looking over the current backlog, I should be able to ship over > 125 kits out next week! I also made up some '940s, so some of you waiting on those will see them. > I am out of '910s, and it will take until around March 21st to get more back in stock (built by > outside shop). I do now have *plenty* of '960s and '990s. I have all of the parts in for the '950 > *except* the new wire set, which gets ordered on Monday. > > 500/600 series > > The current guesstimate on these things shipping are as follows: > > WaveWarper - mid April. I need to implement the last pcb tweak and get the rotary switches made. > The good news is that the Spectrol 100 ohm pots (for the 'Warp Factor' control) arrived Friday. > I'm not the only slow company around: these were ordered Oct. 11th :) > > Fixed Filter bank - early May. The design is done, I'm going to order the front panels in about 2 > weeks. The pcb design needs to be completed (going from 1 large pcb to two small ones) with the > expansion connector added. Several beta testers have played with it, all give it a huge thumbs > up. > > Cloud Generator - June. This is all my fault, I have to get off my butt and do the prototype pcb > so the firmware can get going. The week of March 24th is Cloud Off My Butt Week. > > uSeq - late April/early May. Needs 1 pcb revision, but the hardware is solid. Front panels in > stock. I'm ordering parts for 50 units next week. Right now, about 38 are on order. If you want > to get in the first run, now the time to order. I can't keep much inventory due to the high $$$ > cost and the fact the parts cannot be used by other modules (like say TL072 op amps can be). > > MIDI/CV - May. Atmel (the uP vendor) shafted us in late Dec. and we now have to add a small PIC > uP to assist in the SPI I/O hardware. Nothing much we can do here as about 2 months prior HW/SW > went bye-bye. > > Also: the MOTM-480 will *finally* see the light of day in late May as well. I can't schedule time > to do the pcb layout until April. I do have 95% of the parts for it, including front panels. > > Well, that's the 'bad' news. MOTM is still growing despite war gloom and a down economy. Without
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> MOTM, I'd be in a *serious* panic myself, as the EE job market is ZERO where I live, with no > signs of any recovery of any sort until 2004. At least the current backlog will keep me busy > until June/July. After that, I guess JH, Crow and I will have to cook up some new stuff for the > remainder of the year. SEM filter, anybody? :) > > Paul S. >