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motm@yahoogroups.com, Andre Majorel <aym-htnys@...> wrote:
>
Those panel acreage figures are interesting! Yes, it's purely down to
space/panel density in my case. My studio room is an attic, and a
fairly small attic at that. I tried attaching the cases to the inner
roof surfaces (?) but the walls were closing in a bit. If it was in a
straight-walled room, I would not have a problem at all.
The dotcom is even bigger? Wow.
The price is not an issue - Cynthia has quoted me a price which I
thought quite reasonable. The Banana sockets and the davis knobs as
used on Serge, ModCan and Wiard synthesisers are cheap to buy. I'm
not planning on doing it all in one go - I'll do the Oakley MIDI-DAC
first, then the VCOs, then the envelopes, and so on. She already has
panel designs for the sub-octave multiplexer c/w tellun add-on and the
MOTM440 filter. Several of the existing modules I was going to
re-panel anyway - the multiplexer + Tellun mod, the ultra-LFO + Tellun
mod and the 480 VCF + Pugix/m.u.u.b. mod (many, many thanks for
posting all that info on yr site BTW, Mr Brewster). The resale thing
isn't an issue for me either - I generally tend to keep stuff I like
for a long time, I was playing my Chroma the other day, and reflecting
on the fact that I've had it for something like 20 years! That's a
long time... I'm not planning on selling on any of my modular gear
until I'm really old.
Anyway, the 2 possible issues are the resistors on the VC input jacks
on the VCOs, and a kind soul emailed me suggesting that w/o shielded
cable, the signal returns might try to go back through the power
supply? If I keep the shielded cables, and attach the shields to the
back of the panel, would that avoid this?
Many thanks
>
> 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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