Fw: Colour coding conventions for controls?

[Ric Miller]

> From: Matthew S. Padden
<@horus.sara.nl, at pegasus.huddersfield.ac.uk:m.s.padden at huddersfield.ac.uk>
> To: synth-diy at horus.sara.nl
> Subject: Colour coding conventions for controls?
> Date: Friday, April 25, 1997 4:39 AM
> 
> Hi..
> 
> 	Are there any 'standards' for colour coding on synth controls? Faced with a 
> choice of eight different colours for the caps on my collet knobs, I'm 
> wondering what convention to use.

For my own modular synth, I've chosen the following colours for my banana
jacks.  (I don't use Collet knobs anymore, due to their cost here in the middle
of Canada.  About $3 Cdn. each!  :o )

- CV In - Blue
- CV Out - Purple
- Audio In - Yellow
- Audio Out - Orange
- Trigger/Gate - Grey
- Multiples - Brown

I haven't changed all of my colours yet, on my machine, but those are the
colour codes that I've thought of, so far.  It would be a nice idea to have
colour coded knobs as well.  Hmmmm.  I have to find something cheaper than
Collet.  :)

Ric