Frontpanel for Synthi Clone arrived

[Jim Johnson]

Wow - looks like a DIYer's dream!

Do you know if they provide services to us poor english-only speakers?

Thanks

Jim Johnson 
Metaphoric Software
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Makers of Techno Toys
Software for Electronic Music
http://www.technotoys.com
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On 4/16/98, at 2:00 PM, Haible Juergen  wrote: 

>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.