[sdiy] Banana vs. 1/4" question

[Stephen Begin]

I'm sort of having the same problem, i.e. going crazy trying to choose what
to go with, I keep dreading one day having hundreds of 1/4" jacks and then
realizing I should have gone with banana, or vice versa.
I'd love to see a poll of jack preferences of people on this list...or maybe
jack preferences vs years experience.
This may be a stupid question, but it's hard for me to tell sometimes.
Can't you just throw together some y-splitter 1/4" patch cords for if you
ever feel like splitting a voltage?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Schulze" <michael.schulze at oberlin.edu>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 12:02 PM
Subject: [sdiy] Banana vs. 1/4" question


>
> A while back we had a thread about the ideal modular synth connector.  I'v
> just finished my first module - a quad vco with 36 1/4" jacks.  As I gaze
> longingly at the Milton sequencer I remember how cool it was on the big
> Buchla system in college to be able to split control voltages by just
> sticking a banana into another banana already plugged it.  Very conducive
to
> improvisation and patching on the fly.
>
> As I remember the thread the only real disadvantage to bananas was that
they
> could not be normalled and you needed to adapt signals from the outside
> world.  I don't care about these points - were there any other
disadvantages
> I am forgetting?
>
> I am actually considering redoing all 36 of these jacks to end up with an
> all-banana modular.
>
>