Nice work!
I want to build a cabinet too, although I still am contemplating rackmounting as I still have
a rack laying around, but wood is so much nicer.The integrated keyboard is a neat idea, I
was about to ask what king of keyboard you are using etc, but I see that the company who
made it , is out of business.
Nevermind, I would have been interested in a CV keyboard, but as I have a 650 on order,
I'll use a midi board instead.
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, David Moylan <dave@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All.
>
> I've uploaded two low quality shots taken from my phone of my
> semi-portable cabinet during (ongoing) construction. One pic shows just
> the module cabinet (upside down) and the other shows the empty module
> cabinet with the CV keyboard to give an idea of the final product. It
> holds 15 spaces worth of modules. Why not 16? I can't remember.
> Probably an error of arithmetic. The two sections are the same
> dimensions (minus depth) and the module and keyboard cabinets will be
> able to latch together - kind of like an EML-101 - so it can be lugged
> around. There's space behind the keyboard in the lower cabinet to stow
> some patch cables. Most time consuming aspect of construction is
> certainly applying finish.
>
> The keyboard circuit is a kbd2e board from e4m when they were still in
> business. That board includes an LFO and a VCA as well so...in the
> upside-down pic you'll see a gap that's going to be filled with an FPD
> panel with cascaded mults - CV / Gate normaled into first positions,
> portamento knob, lfo rate and shape controls. The LFO is going to be
> hardwired into the VCA modulated by keyboard gate with a simple panel
> set RC rise time for fade in vibratos etc. There are also x,y, gate
> output jacks for the Joystick provided with great speed by Wiard
> (Thanks, Grant!).
>
> Inspiration came from John Blacet (Time Machine won't fit in the SKB
> popup).
>
> Planned module complement is from left to right
>
> EE UEG
> 300 VCO
> 300 VCO
> uVCO
> EG1
> VCF
> EG2
> VCA
> EG3
> Time Machine
>
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Dave M.
>