The availability of a PC board, bare or assembled, or a partial or full
kit was essential to my purchase decisions. I do find some Modcan and
Synthesizers.com modules interesting. I just don't want to buy a fully
assembled module in another format, strip it all apart, add a $100 panel
and $50 worth of pots and jacks, and throw away the original panel, all
to have a MOTM format version. I would have to be really, really
attracted to a module that was available in no other form, and that
hasn't happened yet.
The original topic on this thread was about going the other way:
reformatting MOTM modules into a Modcan panel format. It's a similar
question. If this were done, you would have a unique looking modular,
and you would have expended a lot of time, money and effort. To each
his own.
-Richard Brewster
http://www.pugix.comJason Proctor wrote:
> reformatting basically involves taking the PCB
> from another form factor but not the panel or
> (generally) jacks, pots, knobs, etc. the new
> panel is made by stooge or schaeffer or (insert
> panel maker here).
>
> my modular is MOTM format but has modules from 6
> (shortly to be 8) manufacturers. it contains a
> blacet miniwave and blacet vc-envelope, both of
> which were reformatted from blacet kits into MOTM
> panels.
>
> mr blacet makes it a bit easier by selling
> minimal kits without hardware for us reformatters.
>
>