Hehe,
Im in Moog Pergatory. Its the mental state that you enter into when you purchase a Moog product and you have to wait in between tracking number updates to find out where it is until the estimated shipping date.
I settled on an Ash Lunar Voyager/Vx351, supposed to get here next week.
Since its the weekend, All that I have to go on is that it left its departure scan at 8am yesterday, and since its Saturday, I won’t get an update until monday.
Since when do you think FedEx or UPS (or whoever they ship with) only work during the business week? Updates occur quite regularly over the weekend! I just ordered an item and watched it all last weekend long! Keep refreshing that page! You know you want to! Go ahead! Do it! Do it!
Moogatory? LOL I was in the same sitch a few weeks ago when my Prodigy was being delivered. Feel for ya.
BUT - good things come to those who wait, as the old saying goes.
I’m green with envy - but wish you much enjoyment with your new baby!!
Kevin, You have just given me something to work towards…I too want a room full of analog audio equipment…I’m so jealous. BTW, You are one of my heros, and it’s an honor for me to see your synth collection…or more likely, part of it.
Thanks for the kind words, though I’ve never collected synths.
I own only a worn D-50 and a broken Kitten.
But I’m rarely without something entertaining, which is good because I can’t afford any of them anyways.
Yeah, two string filters.
Maybe excessive consumption, but not so crazy since there can be several sections to a string arrangement.
Also you can do stereo mixes.
They’re normally external anyways.
Just there to transport in a rack.
Fix the Kitten?
I wish.
I once had original blueprints to the Kitten and sold them on Ebay.
One of those “When will I ever need these?” things.
Then, someone gave me a Kitten.
It was previously worked on by someone else and I have no idea if the chips in it are even the correct ones.
Now the schemos are no where to be found.
There’s quite good discussion there for buchla, moog, and general modular design and construction; One of the people who started the forum was a Buchla employee back in the days. You might find it interesting.
I’ve visted several DIY forums, but unfortunately I’m often met with hostile attitudes.
One has to consider that several of these folks are frustrated synth designers and musicians.
They usually have unrelated day jobs and have to pay for their synth interests.
Me? I work at home in the mountain wilderness, get paid to work with amazing synths and deal with pros making a living at music.
I often represent what they think is an ideal situation.
So I’m a great target for their frustrations.
With that said, I don’t tend to frequent many of these places any longer.
Given the choice between working on some pro’s wonderful synth and getting slammed by some know-it-all bent on cutting me down a few notches, I’ll just go do my work.
you did see the pictures a few posts back of the synth’s kevin has sitting in his living room right now, right? The ones he was doing maintenance/repairs on?
you did read Kevin’s post in it’s entirety, to contextualize mine, right?.. the part where he stated he has been unable to find any documentation on the Kitten, and has had no help in doing so on diy sites?
Jeff Blenkinsopp worked for Octave electronics some years ago and would be more in a position to help out with any documentation that a diy site.
You seem to be drawing some other type of inference from my post, and I’m not sure what thats about.
Kevin - maybe this would help? They have photos of the schematics posted - maybe you could zoom in on 'em close enough for them to be legible? http://www.tribalsmile.com/kitten/