3. Verniers & large knobs, 7U, even verniers, and including waveshapers!
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On Sep 13, 2009, at 2:38 PM, "wjhall11" <wjhall@...> wrote:
> Will and I were talking about this -
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> We think that the two Living VCO panels worth considering are both
> counting-dial (Vernier) versions; the difference being a 5U and a 7U
> version.
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> The 5U version uses the smaller knobs for all 16 controls except the
> three verniers. There are no significant modifications to Jurgen's
> design or suggested hook-ups. I can't quite recall, but two of the
> switches may be something Will suggested, but if so, they're very
> straightforward additions - of that I'm certain.
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> You can read about our ideas and see our panel designs here: http://www.dragonflyalley.com/constructionJHLivingVCO.htm
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> OK - so that's the 5U panel...
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> The other panel worth considering is a 7U design. If you increase
> the knobs to standard MOTM size, you need 7U of space. You can
> implement the 7U with the verniers off-set a bit to make more space
> in the "driver section" for the switches (the design on top on our
> page), or you can even out the grid as suggested by Greg James (the
> design below the others on our page).
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> In either of these cases, there's space for an extra row of jacks -
> so we figured we'd build three wave-shapers into the module... a
> relatively straightforward thing to do using 3 MFOS VCO pcbs for
> their wave-shaper circuits.
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> You could implement the 7U panel without the waveshapers and extra
> row of jacks.
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> But if you really didn't want the verniers, you could do the Rough /
> Fine tune idea a-la Dave Brown.
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> So to re-cap - I guess here are the choices:
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> 1. Verniers and small knobs 5U
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> 2. Verniers and large knobs 7U, offset verniers and including
> waveshapers
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> 3. Verniers and large knobs 7U, even verniers and including
> waveshapers
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> 4. Verniers and large knobs 7U, offset verniers no waveshapers
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> 5. Verniers and large knobs 7U, even verniers no waveshapers
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> 6. No verniers, different design
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> Bill and Will
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> --- In ModularSynthPanels@yahoogroups.com, Ben Stuyts <ben@...> wrote:
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>> On 10 sep 2009, at 03:54, Scott Deyo wrote:
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>>> So what am I making here? One vernier and one non-?
>>> Keep in mind, this will make each one more expensive.
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>> I'd like a vernier-style panel. I love the looks of them.
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>> Ben
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