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Hey y'all,
 
I am new to MOTM, this is my first post here.  I just ordered the sub-mux and 410 filter to supplement my growing frankensynth.  I live in Brooklyn, NY.
 
I look forward to learning more about synthesis and maybe meeting up with folks in my area.
 
Later,
Rafael
 
PS - I use two email addresses.  This one and <rafael_cohen@...>

Hi Rafael!

Be sure to check the archives for cool mods for the '120 by Richard 
Brewster.  Scott Tellun has the circuits on his site as well.  
This'll makes the '120 a great timing module as well as a digital 
balanced modulator and subharmonic generator.  That's a lot of 
function, brother!

The '410 is an excellent filter.  Tony Allgood of Oakley Sound 
Systems make a companion module for the '410 that really adds to 
your whole system.  The Oakley module allows you to access 
the '410's LFO's to modulate other modules and provides attenuable 
inputs for each of the three bandpass filters for crazy(er)sweeping 
patterns.

Above all, welcome to MOTM!  These modules are easily the best 
thought out and highest quality available.  Paul Schreiber is a 
great person to do business with as well as being extremely helpful 
and personable.  Add to that the Stooges Larry and Dave (Moe), and 
the rather intelligent and talented people who post here, and you'll 
find this to be one of your favorite hangouts!

Chub - just another doofus with a synth habit...

Hey Rafael,

If you are into DIY modifications, you will find a lot of company here 
who will be glad to answer questions.

Check out these links:

http://www.tellun.com/motm/mods/mods.html
http://www.tellun.com/motm/diy/db120/DB-120.html

Looks like the DB-120 board is sold out again.  Hey Scott!  Will there 
be more?  It's a really nice board.  I replaced my original prototype 
with one.

The OMS-410 by Oakley is discontinued.  :(  Too bad.  I modified mine to 
work in a mode as a stand-alone dual-VCA.
http://www.oakleysound.com/oms-410.htm

If you just build standard MOTM modules, you will still be very happy.  
I think they're the best module kits available.

-Richard Brewster

charlesosthelder wrote:

>Hi Rafael!
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>Be sure to check the archives for cool mods for the '120 by Richard 
>Brewster.  Scott Tellun has the circuits on his site as well.  
>This'll makes the '120 a great timing module as well as a digital 
>balanced modulator and subharmonic generator.  That's a lot of 
>function, brother!
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>The '410 is an excellent filter.  Tony Allgood of Oakley Sound 
>Systems make a companion module for the '410 that really adds to 
>your whole system.  The Oakley module allows you to access 
>the '410's LFO's to modulate other modules and provides attenuable 
>inputs for each of the three bandpass filters for crazy(er)sweeping 
>patterns.
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>Above all, welcome to MOTM!  These modules are easily the best 
>thought out and highest quality available.  Paul Schreiber is a 
>great person to do business with as well as being extremely helpful 
>and personable.  Add to that the Stooges Larry and Dave (Moe), and 
>the rather intelligent and talented people who post here, and you'll 
>find this to be one of your favorite hangouts!
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>Chub - just another doofus with a synth habit...
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>http://www.tellun.com/motm/diy/db120/DB-120.html
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>Looks like the DB-120 board is sold out again.  Hey Scott!  Will there
>be more?  It's a really nice board.  I replaced my original prototype
>with one.

Indeed, very useful. I rarely used my MOTM-120 before adding the 
DB-120. But alas, there hasn't been much interest in the past year. 
Unless that picks up, that could be the end of the line for the 
DB-120.

How does the DB-120 expand the stock 120's capabilities?  I see the 4 
individual outs which seems like it could come in handy.. what the
heck is the staircase output like?

I was actually a little disappointed with the 120 when finished 
building it after hearing people raving about it.  It can do some 
distortion and of course it gives you 4 suboctaves, but I'm just not 
finding cross mode that useful, hence I rarely use the 120 at all.  I 
have a small system and budget, so I'm considering ditching it in
favor for some other module.  I'd probably replace it's _basic_ 
functionality with a clone of the SH-101 sub octave circuit which I 
think would be enough for me.

The only thing about it that I find exciting is you can send a
trigger to input B to step through the pseudo-sequencer feature and 
get some cool octaved basslines going while just holding down a 
single key.  Maybe I'm just not being creative enough with it.. so 
what are you guys getting out of your 120?
-Jim

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Scott Juskiw <scott@t...> wrote:
> >http://www.tellun.com/motm/diy/db120/DB-120.html
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> >Looks like the DB-120 board is sold out again.  Hey Scott!  Will 
there
> >be more?  It's a really nice board.  I replaced my original
prototype

> >with one.
> 
> Indeed, very useful. I rarely used my MOTM-120 before adding the 
> DB-120. But alas, there hasn't been much interest in the past year. 
> Unless that picks up, that could be the end of the line for the 
> DB-120.

At 6:10 AM +0000 2005/03/26, Jim Carlile wrote:
>How does the DB-120 expand the stock 120's capabilities?  I see the 4
>individual outs which seems like it could come in handy.. what the
>heck is the staircase output like?

Those four individual outputs are the main advantage. Consider it to 
be like a non voltage controlled pulse divider. The staircase wave is 
like a digital ramp wave created from a binary weighting of the four 
individual outs. In ASCII art:


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When Andy Wilson donated his 120 for the raffle last year in Cambridge I wasn't
sure if I want to win it. ( http://www.modulus-music.com/synthdiyuk/2004/ )
However, meanwhile I think it's a pretty much underrated module.
Just picture the possibilities in combination with a S&H, etc.

I wonder how Alan's doing with his 120. ;-)

    Michael.

Quoting Scott Juskiw <scott@...>:

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> At 6:10 AM +0000 2005/03/26, Jim Carlile wrote:
> >How does the DB-120 expand the stock 120's capabilities?  I see the 4
> >individual outs which seems like it could come in handy.. what the
> >heck is the staircase output like?
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> Those four individual outputs are the main advantage. Consider it to
> be like a non voltage controlled pulse divider. The staircase wave is
> like a digital ramp wave created from a binary weighting of the four
> individual outs. In ASCII art:
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It's the cross product mode that makes the MOTM 120 really interesting, 
especially when used a control module for aleatoric patches.  The 
individual pulse outputs of the DB-120 board come in handy to control 
envelope generators, sync-able LFOs, and of course the MOTM-700.

-Richard Brewster

Michael Zacherl (aka TonTaub) wrote:

>When Andy Wilson donated his 120 for the raffle last year in Cambridge I wasn't
>sure if I want to win it. ( http://www.modulus-music.com/synthdiyuk/2004/ )
>However, meanwhile I think it's a pretty much underrated module.
>Just picture the possibilities in combination with a S&H, etc.
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>I wonder how Alan's doing with his 120. ;-)
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>    Michael.
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>Quoting Scott Juskiw <scott@...>:
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>>>How does the DB-120 expand the stock 120's capabilities?  I see the 4
>>>individual outs which seems like it could come in handy.. what the
>>>heck is the staircase output like?
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>>Those four individual outputs are the main advantage. Consider it to
>>be like a non voltage controlled pulse divider. The staircase wave is
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>>individual outs. In ASCII art:
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> The OMS-410 by Oakley is discontinued.
> http://www.oakleysound.com/oms-410.htm

Do people want me to resurrect this project?

If I get ten or more people interested I can do another run of boards.
I'll probably re-layout the board to use MOTM Spectrols instead of the 
old Omegs.

Tony

I'm good for one.

Moe

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Oakley Sound" <oakley@t...> wrote:

> > The OMS-410 by Oakley is discontinued.
> > http://www.oakleysound.com/oms-410.htm
> 
> Do people want me to resurrect this project?
> 
> If I get ten or more people interested I can do another run of boards.
> I'll probably re-layout the board to use MOTM Spectrols instead of the 
> old Omegs.
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> Tony

The OMS-410 can be built in a number of different panels, depending on 
how you want to use it.  It might be interesting to make more variations 
easier, if the board is reissued.  I rebuilt mine to have both VCA's 
that control the LFO levels available as independent modules, as well as 
having the capability to work as reversible attenuators, while still 
supporting all the original functions except mixing the MOTM outputs.  
See my block diagram oms410-block.gif here:

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/oakley-synths/files/

-Richard Brewster

Oakley Sound wrote:

>>The OMS-410 by Oakley is discontinued.
>>http://www.oakleysound.com/oms-410.htm
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>Do people want me to resurrect this project?
>
>If I get ten or more people interested I can do another run of boards.
>I'll probably re-layout the board to use MOTM Spectrols instead of the 
>old Omegs.
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>Tony
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