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Subject: Re: [motm] Re: Moving to a different (ModCan) panel format.

From: Andre Majorel <aym-htnys@...>
Date: 2006-06-15

On 2006-06-15 04:12 -0000, coyoteous wrote:

> I guess I'm with the camp that would rather buy more modules in
> their existing formats than spend time and money to re-face them
> - though I do respect and understand why one would want to unify
> to one format.

I think Norman's motivation is not looks but panel density. The
difference is on the order of 40% : 8.16 cm² per front panel
element for Modcan vs. about 11.6 cm² on average for MOTM.

To put things into perspective, the figure is about 4.5 cm² for
Doepfer and 16 cm² for Arrick.

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