MOTM

Certainly, this is a "free speech" list, but it is possible to lose sight of
the *main purpose*,
that is to discuss MOTM. Now, what does *that* mean?

By the end of the year, I suspect there may be over 150 people on this list.
For the list to
be useful to the most people, I think topics should focus  around things
like

* How do I use the modules?

* What future modules & features would be nice?

I don't see any "harm" in discussing Doepfer, Serge, Moog, PAiA, Blacet et
al as long as it
remains in context. Examples

In Context:

"Doepfer has a cool feature on the blah blah blah. Can we see that in a
future module?"

Out of Context:

"I just love my Doepfer gear! This stuff really rocks!"

Also, let's keep the traffic to the point. Lately, things have sort of
wandered. I encourage the
lurkers out there to jump in. I would like everyone to feel like a valid
contributor. I personally
try to stay out of most of the discussions: I'm *not* a user (my ssytem
consists of a MOTM-900 and a broken '110)
and I want this to be a customer forum. I do read every post, but bite my
tongue alot.

What no one wants is this to degrade into AH or (shudder) the Emagic LOGIC
list with 400 stoopid emails
a day.

I think over the last few months the hardware-based discussions have been
fruitful. I have lots of designing
to do to catch-up! But let's not ignore the music side: there are 4
producers on this list (speak up, you guys)
and I'd like to see more "music talk" versus "LED talk".

Not being a wet blanket, just hoping to involve more folks. I'll get off my
soapbox now and finish up the
'440 layout.

Paul S.

>From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
>
>Certainly, this is a "free speech" list, but it is possible to lose sight of
>the *main purpose*,
>that is to discuss MOTM. Now, what does *that* mean?

In my previous msg, I didn't mean to imply that this should become a
free-for-all list, by any means. I guess what I meant is that the people on
this list form a community of sorts, and, while the MOTM addiction is
initially what we have in common, there's a lot of other areas that we
probably share. I think the Looper's Delight list is a pretty good example
of an email community that is structured around a specific technology
(looping devices), but tolerates a certain degree of wandering, with a fair
degree of civility.

>
>I don't see any "harm" in discussing Doepfer, Serge, Moog, PAiA, Blacet et
>al as long as it
>remains in context. Examples

And could we please do without the S****, D****** stuff? It was cute at
first but now it just makes stuff hard to read. "W****", from a message
from a few weeks ago, had me scratching my head for most of a day...
>
>In Context:
>
>"Doepfer has a cool feature on the blah blah blah. Can we see that in a
>future module?"
>
>Out of Context:
>
>"I just love my Doepfer gear! This stuff really rocks!"

But, Paul, you know that anyone who has ever played both MOTM and Doepfer
would never say that, unless they were hopelessly misguided...:-)
>
>Also, let's keep the traffic to the point. Lately, things have sort of
>wandered. I encourage the
>lurkers out there to jump in. I would like everyone to feel like a valid
>contributor. I personally
>try to stay out of most of the discussions: I'm *not* a user (my ssytem
>consists of a MOTM-900 and a broken '110)
>and I want this to be a customer forum. I do read every post, but bite my
>tongue alot.

That must hurt! I'd urge you not to edit yourself, just because you design
the damn things it doesn't mean you can't have opinions! (and I KNOW you
have opinions). I think we all value your contributions here.
>
>What no one wants is this to degrade into AH or (shudder) the Emagic LOGIC
>list with 400 stoopid emails
>a day.
>
Indeed! The reason I unsubscribed from AH is because I subscribed the Logic
list. I'm one of the Opcode Orphans, making the switch to Logic.

>I think over the last few months the hardware-based discussions have been
>fruitful. I have lots of designing
>to do to catch-up! But let's not ignore the music side: there are 4
>producers on this list (speak up, you guys)
>and I'd like to see more "music talk" versus "LED talk".

Absolutely. I love checking out other people's music (Am listening to David
Bivins stuff as I write this, very cool!), and would like to hear how other
people integrate the modular synth into their concept.

________________________________________________________
Dave Trenkel : improv@...  : www.peak.org/~improv/

"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
                                            -Sun Ra
________________________________________________________

In a message dated 2/16/2000 1:36:56 PM, improv@... writes:

>>I don't see any "harm" in discussing Doepfer, Serge, Moog, PAiA, Blacet
>et
>>al as long as it
>>remains in context. Examples
>
>And could we please do without the S****, D****** stuff? It was cute at
>first but now it just makes stuff hard to read. 

I agree! I think I contributed to this by pointing out to some listmembers a 
few months ago that this was the MOTM list, and not the Doepfer list. I 
shouldn't have made such an issue of this, and most comments I've seen 
recently regarding other synths have been in the context of MOTM features, or 
using them in conjunction with MOTM.

As the biggest mouthed off topic poster on this list, I will try to keep to 
topic in the future. I will however strongly state my preference for 
features, and I hope others will too (especially those in disagreement with 
me). 

That said, I have really enjoyed seeing the "profiles" of list members, and 
would encourage other lurkers to let us know what you're doing musically, and 
what your thoughts are regarding MOTM (and related EM).

I also noticed that several people are using MOTM to process other sounds -- 
I think this could be a very interesting subject. After a conversation 
several years ago, as a whim, I tried plugging the individual outputs of a 
drum machine into my ARP and Serge (somewhat unorthodox connections like the 
FM inputs of VCOs), I found this to be much more interesting than I'd 
imagined, if not the kind of thing that I usually do.

Glad to see so many others posting!
JB