Cabinet/power supply in the Digisound re-issue

[Tony Clark]

> > Remember a single panel is 3" wide and 9" tall. Yes, you can get blank
> ones.
> 
> Jeez Louise! That seems awful big. The stuff I've built so far is on Paia
> Frac rack panels. My VCOs and VCFs are on 3" x 5.25" panels and my ADSRs,
> LFOs, and waveshapers are on 1.5" x 5.25" panels! Well, I guess you can
> have nice big knobs that way! (The knobs on my ADSRs are about .6" on 1/8"
> shafts)

   I find the Digisound panels to be 1/4 of an inch too big.  Maybe 
someone can clue me into why they decided to make it a little above the 
standard rack height?  From what I've seen, the panels certainly could 
have been a little shorter and still contained all of the pots/jacks.

> You folks down there in Texas obviously don't have to worry about taking up
> too much space in your apartments :) !

   Well some of us certainly do have advantages in that respect.  
Although you should see the look on my wife's face when I pull in another 
keyboard!
   Anyway, my main wish is to make sure that for those of us who are 
sticking to rack dimention standards, please make sure the circuit boards 
can accomdate that!  The panels I just ordered for my modular are 2-3" by 
8 3/4" with 1/2" clearance on top and bottom minimum.  So as long as the 
circuit boards are no longer than 7 1/2" then everything should be cool.

> How deep will the modules be? Is each module closed or is it all open on
> the back side?

   Well if he goes with the circuit board parallel to the panel 
(preferred for me) then the depth shouldn't be more than 1 1/2" to 2 1/2", 
I'd think.  This would be great, really, as you could have an extensive 
modular system literally hanging on the wall and not lose hardly any 
space in your studio!

   Tony

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Tony Clark -- clark at andrews.edu 
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