Frontpanel for Synthi Clone arrived

[Haible Juergen]

Hi,

some of you asked me to tell you about my experiences with the front
panel for my Synthi Clone.

I didn't want to drill such a large panel myself, not to speak of the
rectangular
cut for the matrix or the lettering of matrix rows and columns. So I was
looking
for a professional solution, and I found this web page with a free
downloadable 
front panel design editor, and a company that would manufacture the panel
directly from this program's data.

http://www.schaeffer-apparatebau.de/

To make things perfect, the program even
calculates the price of the final panel, updated with every hole you drill
or text
you add. So you know exactly what you're doing *before* you contact the
manufacturer and ask for a pricing.

I tried it, and I didn't make experiments with smaller test objects, but
ordered
a 19" x 18" monster right from the start.

The panel arrived yesterday, and it looks excellent. 
I started mounting potentiometers, vernier dials, loudspeakers, the
joystick, the
matrix, the meter ... and everything fits perfectly.

I am very pleased with the results, and I will definitely have my next panel

manufactured there, too.

Highly recommended!

JH.