Michel Morin (seak-thief / polygamy boys), sent in a couple of shots of his Latronic Notron and DIY modular. The following are his thoughts on the Notron.
"I bought the Notron new back in 1998 and manually upgraded it to the Mk2 ROM a year later. Cutting the rubber rim around the base was extremely difficult, not to mention carefully separating the two halves which were hot-glued together. I haven't replaced the rubber trim yet even though Latronic sent me a replacement piece along with the Mk2 ROM. Notron's have generally had issues with static electricity and will sometimes reboot as a result. I think this might be solved if a proper star-grounding topology is used on the inside board along with a decent 5V DC power supply. I don't perform with it live anymore so fixing this is no longer a pressing issue for me.
I don't ever plan to sell my Notron, despite it currently being worth almost 3 times as much as I paid for it. Besides, how many sequencers do you know that can run at 1500bpm? When I first got it, I remember simultaneously crashing an SC-55, Juno 106, AN1x and TX81z due to some kind of insane midi stream that the Notron was spitting out. Most impressive!
What really stands out about this sequencer are the compelling ergonomics - it feels so damn good to use."
"p.s. It's crazy to think that I bought the Notron in 1998 for the equivalent of $950 USD and it's recently sold for over $3000 USD!"
DIY Modular from top to bottom:
1. 22-channel diy-passive mixer with FETBoy preamps
2. CGS + Oakley
3. Blacet
4 & 5. ASM-2 + Tonepad FX
6. Midibox CV + CGS
7. Henry/Stites + CGS + Papareil
Previous Notron posts
*lol* no the sides are moulded to fit perfectly in one's lap... if I had taken a picture of it sitting on the chair, then the inevitable "Darth Vader's toilet seat" comment would come up again.
ReplyDeleteI updated the post with a link to previous Notron posts as well. There's more info there.
ReplyDeleteneat setup, how do you like the rozzbox ? Is it a v1 or v2 ? Tell us more about it :)
ReplyDeleteI have a yamaha rm1x, a Future Retro Mobius, and fatCONTROLLER--but I like my Notron MkII the best. The serial number is 40. So there can't have been too many made.
ReplyDeleteMy Notron MkI is serial #108 - which means Latronic shipped that many in about 13-14 months.
ReplyDeleteThey actually wanted to make a metal version of the MkI shape - now that would have been incredible ...and expensive :)
xonox - it's a rozzbox v1. i sent you an e-mail about it.
is that guy still making rozzboxes?
ReplyDeletei wanted to get a v2 sooo bad