[sdiy] 3 questions, Formant and MOTM

[John L Marshall]

Good looking panel.

I'm just a little bit anal about decibels. Use a lowercase d for deci and an
uppercase B Alexander Graham Bell as in dB.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Mantel <rmantel at nitline.net>
To: SynthDIYmailinglist <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 10:42 PM
Subject: [sdiy] 3 questions, Formant and MOTM


> Hi all, 3 questions:
>
> I am in the process of redoing my formant synth; new case, frontpanels,
> knobs, pots, jacks etc, everything a little bit in the style of the MOTM
(my
> next project when this is done).
>
> Q1: I believe I read somewhere the MOTM uses different colored (even
> bicolor) leds for different signals. I can not seem the find the place I
> read that anymore, could anyone tell me what colors are used for what kind
> of signal?
>
> Q2: I read the MOTM uses alcoswitch PK/ES -90B knobs. I am planning to use
> PK/ES-70B and some PK/ES-60B knobs on my formant, however on some pictures
I
> saw it looks like these look different (apart from size) than the 90B
ones.
> I can not find a place where I can just order 1 of the 90B ones to look at
> it myself, so has anyone seen these 3 knobs and tell me if they really are
> the same apart from size as you would expect looking at their product
code?
>
> Q3: This is probably too much to ask, but maybe someone is bored... I just
> finished the design for the 1st frontpanel for my new formant in
> Frontplatten Designer. Since it is a 6 units high 19" panel, it wont be
> cheap to have them make it and since I am new to designing front panels,
new
> to this program etc etc I am nervous about ordering it. If there is any
> bored FPD expert on this list, could you please have a look at the design
> and see if I didn't do anything obviously wrong? I put it on the web at
> http://arachnoids.org/synthdiy/formantll.fpd
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>