In a message dated 7/4/2000 3:36:57 PM,
thudson@... writes:
>Just curious as to other "MOTM layout philosophies (TM)."
I don't want to get into a debate about idealism/materialism, but it would be
ideal for me to have more MOTM material!
>I'm wondering how people have arranged their modules and why.
>I'm on my fourth row now and they're pretty much installed in the
>order I built them.
I'm hoping that Moe will chime in on this since he owned large Emu modular,
I'd like to hear Eric too since he has a 55 style cabinet (maybe a 35). I
hope others will too. I know Ken likes the IIIP type set up and at least has
got me thinking in this regard. But I'm still really looking forward to
laying out a cabinet that is 24U wide, though I'm also having some trouble in
imagining laying it out in the most "ideal" fashion since 24U is pretty wide
for one voice.
>I've thought about laying them out so that each row would
>represent a voice:
>
>voice 320 | 300 | 800 | 420 | 800 | 110
> ---------------------------------
>voice 320 | 300 | 800 | 420 | 800 | 110
> ---------------------------------
>misc 320 | 300 | 410 | 440 | 100 | 700
> ---------------------------------
>misc 900 | 940 | ....
You must have stretched your rack rails to 11U and 12U (or you're probably
planing on what to do with those 12U flat cabinet rails).
I like the general idea but it might be useful to think of one voice for two
rows (signal on the top, CV sources on the bottom). For 10U rails, let me
suggest the following alternative, when the 12U flat rails come available I
suggest go to a larger cabinet format like 3 rows of 24U.
Example:
300-300-420-420-110
--------------------------
320-320-800-100-440-800
--------------------------
700-300-300-410-110
--------------------------
940-320-800-800- -900
(I'm probably the only person who has their PSU on the right side of the rack
but it seems more out of the way there for some reason).
Two things I think are kind of important IMHO are to get the 940 on the left
side (since it will have a bunch of cables coming into the MOTM, possibly
used as signal sources as well as CV) and the 700 towards the left in a CV
row (this is just how I use this module). I don't really like the way I've
set this up, but it's the best I can come up with on the spur of the moment.
If I were you I'd be getting some more EGs, and I'd scatter them through both
the upper (signal) rows (like between the VCOs and VCO and VCF) and the lower
(CV) rows. I'd also consider scattering a 320 or two on both rows -- same
with the 820. Maybe a 300 on the left of the CV rows. You get the idea.
>It seems trying to make things flow from left to right
>rather than top to bottom would minimize cable lengths
>and avoid clutter across the knobs.
Also think about Larry's Magic Buss!
JB