[sdiy] Banana vs. 1/4" question

[l.a.j.p. vermeulen]

The synton series 3000 has standaard banana sockets solder at a pcb board.


----- Original Message -----
From: "patchell" <patchell at silcom.com>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Banana vs. 1/4" question


>     Well, one problem I see with Banana's (and I hope that this can be
> corrected), is that there are no good PC board mount bananas, where as you
can
> get good 1/4 inch phone jacks....of course, this only matters if you are
trying
> to cut down on the amount of wiring as I am...if anybody thinks they know
of a
> nice PC board mount banana, please point me to it.
>
> Michael Schulze wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> --
>  -Jim
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