RE: [sdiy] Circuit Boards / kits

[rdrake]

wow, that would be a great great thing, thanks for at least entertaining the thought.  i'm sure anything you did would be of the first water.

i think both directions have their place, hopefully not mutually exclusive.  

on the minimal end, i'm guessing something like the old EFM designs... would be great assuming they were error-free.  i think there'd be a good market for that kind of thing amont bugmusic and noizicians (and there are a lot of us).  support would be a big issue, especially if you attracted a lot of newbies... but peer support via well-organized forums might help make it managable.

on the high end, the recent spate of designs being distributed via electro-music.com, (ian fritz, Jürgen Haible, & scott stites designs among others) shows there's considerable interest...

either way, put me down for 2 of everything.

my preferences are frac-compatible (one pcb dimension <= 111 mm), square-ish rather than long-n-skinny, .156" power headers a'la MOTM. no obsolete parts.  good documentation is important to me. 

a good middleground might be highquality submodules that could be swapped into different configs... like a quality ramp/square VCO core, and a separate waveshaper for tri/sine/pwm, and a separate suboctive... mix & match.  

or maybe broken down even further, like ken stone's utility boards... an lfo, an expo converter, phase-shift block, fixed filter... those basic building blocks that show up over and over again.

and a specific idea: a basic sequencer core (VCO clock, counter, controls), and then separate boards for the actual CVpot/stepSwitch/led, WITH BOARD-MOUNTED CONTOLS to minimize flying wires... add several boards for a multi-channel sequencer, have different pot boards to support large vs small form factors, or switches only for a multichannel step sequencer...

good luck, keep us posted.
bbob
>From: harrybissell at wowway.com
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Sent: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:48:05
>
>Let's say I was going to make circuit boards and/or
>kits
>available to the DIY community.
>
>Would you rather see minimalist circuits that favor
>low cost 
>and moderate performance...
>
>...or cirucits with high performance but higher
>parts count / cost
>
>What form factor would you prefer ?
>
>I'd like your opinions. Reply on list, it would
>probably be a fun topic
>for everyone...
>
>H^) harry
>
>
>Harry Bissell & Nora Abdullah 4eva
>
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