MATRIXSYNTH: NOT NAMM: Mattson Mini Modular in New Modular Formats


Thursday, December 31, 2009

NOT NAMM: Mattson Mini Modular in New Modular Formats

Some shots via George Mattson's Facebook page. It looks like George will be making the MMM boards available for anyone that wants to build his modules in other formats. Via George on the MMM forum:

"For those of you with a DIY lust, I'm working on getting my cart set up to offer Assembled/tested PC board modules.

This will allow the DIY enthusiasts to get a working module, edge mount it on whatever panel they choose to make (or have made) and get creative on panel size, graphics, I/O placement and whichever style and type of jacks, pots or knobs they desire.

I am currently digging up resources for reference to give the DIY customer places to go for panels, materials, etc.

I'll have wire kits available to support the I/O connections from the board-to-panel components and a list of panel components that will be required for each module.

90% of my circuit boards have the option of either using the MTA 0.100" 6-pin power headers as used standard in my system and synthesizers.com systems or, the MTA 0.156" 4-pin Blacet-style power connectors. The boards can be ordered with either or both. With both, the module can be used as a converter from one power scheme to the other.

Most of my circuits seem to be perfectly happy using +/-15VDC or +/-12VDC. The circuits that can be affected by the voltage source will be listed as such. For those, I will need to know what power source you would be using in order to calibrate the board properly.

I have been receiving requests to do this for some time to support the community who has already invested resources into formats other than mine. I thought it was a great idea, time to implement it was my biggest reason for the delay.

I should have the web site and WIKI updated by next week."

BTW, thank you for my MMM George! My first modular system. :)






9 comments:

  1. Format independence is a beautiful thing. Thanks George!

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  2. Every company should do this. It's the only thing keeping me from purchasing certain modules.

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  3. Mattson keeps getting it right! I'm glad to see George is not only producing, but doing cool things and succeeding. Its stuff like this that make it easy to have a huge amount of respect for people like George, Dave S and Tom O...
    I'm a young guy, and there's nothing I like more than seeing some of the original industry guys showing us how its done!

    George Mattson: Innovated Keytar and got burned by the business. Not really heard from for some years. Invented awesome new small format with cool modules. Then ported cool modules to other formats. Now what?

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  4. hell yeah!!! Flight of Harmony, Curetronic, and now MMMs! I love this trend!

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  5. George just posted on MW that most of the boards range around $75
    Woot!!

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  6. Perfect! :D

    George is tha man!

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