I think the answer depends partly on what size and shape cabinets you
use. I have a couple of dot com cabinets with Stooge rails fitted. These
are four feet wide (26U). I have Miniwaves and VCAs center, surrounded by
three different types of EG (6 in all). Currently, I have all the VCOs in
the upper left corner, filters in the upper right, LFOs (2 MOTM-320, 2
MOTM-290, 1 MOTM-380) in the lower right and the embedded LFOs just above
in the MOTM-410/OMS-410 and Oakley Equinox. The lower left catches the
oddball modules including S&H and random sources. Small mixing modules are
scattered about. With these long cabinets I'm resigned to needing some
5-foot patch cords (on the next Stooge cable order, yup). The way I work,
almost everything gets patched to everything at some point. And I don't
have "standard" patches. I'm still divided over whether to spread around
the LFOs or keep them together. But it's not really critical. Just buy
long patch cords! (Anybody want some 1-footers? I've got about 8 too many.)
It's more important to decide which modules you'll get, than where they'll
fit in the cabinets. I do admit to spending a good bit of time day
dreaming about where modules already ordered are going to go. The
placement I've ended up with bears little resemblance to all those drawings
I made. But they were fun to do.
When you first put a system together it's to be expected you'll move
modules around until you find a comfortable arrangement and then it will
stay that way for a while (until you give in and buy more modules).
-Richard Brewster
At 08:10 PM 9/8/03 -0500, J. Larry Hendry wrote:
> >> At 7:21 PM -0400 2003/09/08, mbedtom@... wrote:
> >> So how does one arrange modules such that over time, one spends more time
>making glorious noises and an ever-decreasing amount of time learning how to
>use the system? Thank you in advance.
>
> > From: Scott Juskiw <scott@...>
> > About the only thing that has been a constant has been to keep the
>transient generators near the VCAs and VCFs since so many patches seem to
>have EG->Filter and EG->Amp.
>
>That's interesting. I have floated back and forth between putting things
>close together like that that are often used and functional grouping where
>all VCOs are grouped, and VCF, all VCAs, etc. But, that part I struggled
>with was putting all EGs together instead of next to VCA and VCFs and maybe
>one near VCO. :)
>
>I am leaning toward keeping them all together, but having the position just
>above or below VCAs and VCFs. Of course, I don't have to try to manage all
>the modules found in that Canadian monster. :)
>
>Stooge Larry