> From: "Tkacs, Ken" <Ken.Tkacs@...>
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>
> Basically, its good to have as many buttons, knobs, switches, jacks, and
> blinking lights as you can possibly cram onto a black faceplate,
> am I right?
> Or am I right?
Nope, in my opinion. Crowding a panel hurts the useability a lot. One of the
bad things about Modcan and ESPECIALLY Doepfer is how crowded the panels
are, and how small the knob diameter is. Makes it real hard to set precise
values on skinny knobs with fat fingers. It's a tradeoff between compactness
of the system, features and useability.
My particular bias is towards features and useability at the expense of
compactness. It's a modular, dag nabbit! If you are going to put in
features, allow enough panel space to contain them. Also, IMHO it's better
to have a general purpose standalone module (e.g. a lag processor) than to
build a similar dedicated feature into one or more modules (e.g. glide on a
sequencer module).
Everyone has different opinions, but MOTM is a large format design, so it's
going to be hard to get a 5 or 10 space portable rack with a zillion
features.
Dave