minimoog clone

[Goddard, Duncan]

>>>I just bought 6 mini-toggles for about $5 each (special purpose so I had
no 
> shopping options) but I am RAGGED that Newark needed $8 to ship
> them. they would have fit it in one square inch !!!<<<
> 
not unusual in broadcast engineering- I've paid sony £1.20 (almost 2 bucks)
for a grub-screw before now, and had it turn up in a plastic ziplok inside a
cardboard box big enough to accomodate a housebrick.

meanwhile, I've started toying with the idea of removing the metal part of
the pro-1's case and substituting something almost identical but with the
mod-matrix replaced with (is this turning into an obsession?) a mini-pin
patch thing. all the duff switchgear would go, too, which means (probably)
panel-mounting the replacements, as decent toggles or whatever wouldn't fit
onto the pcb.
(I think those slidey switches are toilet anyway, but they're worse when
they're pcb mounted and the whole pcb is supported by adjacent pots. in the
prodigal, the pcb is properly bolted to the panel and none of the components
take the same sort of stress; they last much longer. any flexing of the
board is better distributed.)

maybe I'd need to add some buffering for the bits of the synth that
unexpectedly find themselves turned into mod-sources/destinations, and I
could fit some (more) attenuators in the mod-routing to allow blending of
sources (say, lfo and filt env both to pwm, while lfo alone goes to osc 1&2
freq....).
the immediate appeal of this idea is that the metalwork concerned is fairly
straightforward, though the benefits to the useability and reliability of
the synth are obvious too.
I think I'd drop the whole pcb into a lower position in the case and
panel-mount all the pots too.

d.



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