[sdiy] to banana or not to banana

[Chris Muir]

On Jul 12, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Aaron Lanterman wrote:

> As I've been pouring over Buchla schematics, something just dawned  
> on me...
>
> Would it be fair to say Buchla is not a fan of normalled connections?
>
> I just realized I don't recall seeing him use any on any of the  
> schematics I've looked at.
>
> Maybe that's part of the overall philosophy of trying to make  
> minimal assumptions of how a patch should be put together.


I guess the Banana equivalent is the shorting bar, but that isn't used  
as much as it could be, if only because it's a PITA to design for. I  
just designed a module that can get fed from outputs of the 266e  
Source of Uncertainty, and even with the mechanical drawing for the  
266e it was hard to make my module work with it.

As far as normalled .141" jacks goes, you're right Buchla doesn't seem  
to use them anywhere. I think that there are some places where using  
normalled jacks could be good. For example, I would love to see  
normals on the lower row of output jacks be the source for the mixer  
that feeds the "all" jack on a 292e. That way you could have a mix of  
some of the outputs, but not all of them.

- C

Chris Muir
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