[sdiy] buffering outputs and routing signals (SEM modular related)

[klosmon]

At 06:53 PM 7/25/2004 +0200, Magnificent Magnus wrote:
>Hi Nico!
>So, there is no buffers, but then most signals will be from within the
box, so
>it is only patching around on the same supply.
>

Good point -- and a distinction that needs to be made in this case.  If
you're only going to be patching the synth & not using the patch-points to
interface with the outside world, no buffers are required.

HOWEVER, if you (or the synth's next owner) someday decide to see how that
auxillary piece of circuitry will fit into the system, there's always the
potential for damaging the Oberheim circuitry (just serviced a unit a few
months ago, for a user who'd patched out EVERY SINGLE MOLEX point on the
two voice boards, the keyboard board, and the mini-sequencer.   He'd
managed to kill some ICs on every board -- not sure what he'd plugged in;
but I know he'd never even heard of buffering).

~GMM