[sdiy] Synthesizer by Committee

[Richard Wentk]

Fair point. I don't do much SMD soldering, so I tend to forget it exists. (sigh...)

But that just means you need robo-assembly. 

And obviously, tiny SMD caps can't sound as good as old-fashioned leaky electrolytics. :)

R

On 10 Dec 2010, at 19:04, Tom Wiltshire wrote:

> We've got SMD to use now though. The Prophet 08 is *empty* inside compared with a Prophet 5, and that's just because of surface-mount components.
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> It'd be interesting to know how much PCB room the Jupiter8 would take up if done in SMDs. I wonder..
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> T.
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> On 10 Dec 2010, at 18:51, Richard Wentk wrote:
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>> But there are stupid things about the design. The case is *small* and even if you use digital LFOs and ADSRs - pretty much a given - getting everything inside a box that size is going to be a tight fit, and a nightmare to maintain.
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>> A JP-8 is packed on the inside, likewise a CS80. And those are big boxes. Something much smaller really wouldn't be happening, IMV.
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