[sdiy] Chaotic/lo-fi patching techniques

[beschaving at gmail.com]

On Apr 7, 2008, at 8:56 PM, Ben Lincoln wrote:

> If I were going to do something like that, I would definitely use the
> latter type of approach - make some sort of adapter between the  
> factory
> patch panel and something else. That way you won't end up physically
> damaging the real connectors. You could also use it as an  
> opportunity to
> *not* make connections to potentially dangerous connectors (power,  
> etc)
> that shouldn't be routed to the other pins.

Yeah, definitely. I'll be interfacing with a Serge modular that I'd  
prefer not to damage or alter in any way, so I'll run a cable snake  
from various modules on the Serge front panel into my mess-up breakout  
box. This way I can also make various types of breakout boxes with  
weird connectors on them, and switch between them just by plugging  
another one in...


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> On Mon, April 7, 2008 11:24 am, |||||||||| |||||||||| said:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm currently thinking about alternative ways of making connections  
>> on
>> a modular synth, particularly of the primitive, somewhat random kind.
>> For example, German Synthi AKS improviser Thomas Lehn sticks bits of
>> metal in the Synthi "Prestopatch" slot and wiggles it around, to
>> short-circuit between various modules and make all kinds of sudden
>> complex noises...This is what I'm into as well. (It doesn't seem to
>> harm his Synthi, by the way).
>>
>> I'd love to hear about other ways that people are "mechanically"
>> interfacing with their synths. I vaguely remember seeing some design
>> that just had a number of metal nails sticking up, for example, that
>> one would either touch or clamp crocodile cables to.
>> I also seem to remember something with a metal ball rolling around
>> another bed of nails?
>>
>> Sorry to jump from lurking to taking up so much bandwidth all of a
>> sudden, by the way...
>>
>> Thank you for any hints, suggestions etc!
>>
>> Alex