Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Modular Synth Panels

Ok, I finally got around to finishing this one up - I would have done
it a week ago but had to deal with a case of Rocky Mountain Spotted
fever - yuck. Tere's also a screen cap in the misc folder of the
pictures section for instant gratification.

I really wanted to work this into a 6u panel, hopefully incorporting
parts of Thomas White's excellent rotary design, but just couldn't
begin to make it all fit. It's pretty tight in 8u. I started with Jeff
Pontius's old milton design, and basically erased everything below the
middle, and incorporated lots of bits from Clickmrmike's and Will and
Bill's designs, juggling some switch positions to suit my tastes and
putting back in the switch they left out (it's probably not necessary,
but there it is). Then I spent forever juggling everything around to
make it look hunky-dory, at least kind of.

Somehow in the course of doing this the price dropped a bit - my
original layout with all the holes and labels was over 160$ (US), but
the finished version is about 146$ - go figure. I did replace a bunch
of loosely created place holder items with copied and pasted groups of
items, like the switch boxes - maybe that makes a difference.

I'm highly tempted to create a color version of this one - once you
sart adding color fills, it's just a flat rate 7$ addon, and you can
use all the colors you want after that - so since I'm already spending
a bunch, why not? But there's the deciding on the miriad of choices
part - fairly daunting. Anyone want to take a crack at this? It's free
until you press the buy button, of course.

The hole sizes are all for the same hardware synthtech uses - spectrol
pots, switchcraft 1/4 jacks, nkk bat switches, lumex 5/16 leds, and
all the knobs are meant to be the smaller version of the standard motm
style PKES-60B-1/4 knobs. Other stuff would also work fabulously in
there, but remember to adjust the hole diameters to what you're using.

I'd love to get opinions and feedback on this - this was a pretty big
undrtaking, and I'm not a graphics designer by any means, so there's
probably lots of design rules I've stepped all over. And while I've
read the various klee manuals and checked with the interconnect
schematics, I may have missed something - let me know if this is the
case.

Apologies to Scott Deyo for not waiting patiently for his soon-to-be
much more excellent design, which will of course cost half as much,
but I've got all the other parts sitting here burning a hole in my
build time plans. Actually, I'm not really ready to order this yet,
due to some financial tightness currently - maybe I'll come to my
senses. And you know you'll be geting a bunch of my money soon anyway
for brackets for this and some other stuff, so it'll all work out.
Brackets - I didn't really consider brackets in this design - I'm sure
there's something that'll work - we'll see.

Steve Drake