Doepfer

hi Dieter! i was considering adding the glide option to my Dark Energy, but my unit is one of the very early ones that doesn't have the hole & plastic plug in front for the glide knob placement. i'm guessing unless i completely diassemble the entire unit and try to manually drill a hole myself i'm out of luck? just thought i'd ask. thanks! -chris

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Chris,

have a look at my video, where i installed the glide in an older DE
this is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YetqcigMI

maybe it can inspire you to do the same

regards

Richard

2012/9/13 christian ienni <ienni23@yahoo.com>

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> hi Dieter! i was considering adding the glide option to my Dark Energy,
> but my unit is one of the very early ones that doesn't have the hole &
> plastic plug in front for the glide knob placement. i'm guessing unless i
> completely diassemble the entire unit and try to manually drill a hole
> myself i'm out of luck? just thought i'd ask. thanks! -chris
>
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> hi Dieter! i was considering adding the glide option to my Dark
> Energy, but my unit is one of the very early ones that doesn't
> have the hole & plastic plug in front for the glide knob
> placement. i'm guessing unless i completely diassemble the entire
> unit and try to manually drill a hole myself i'm out of luck?
> just thought i'd ask. thanks! -chris

You have to remove the bottom cover and find a position where the parts of
the glide option do not touch any other electronic part or pc board. Then
you may drill a suitable hole at the desired position into the case. Pay
attention not to damage the pc boards and that no metallic swarfs from
drilling remain inside the case as they may cause short circuits.

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer

The best option should be installing the dual coaxial pot connected via bare wires with corresponding holes on the PCB. But there's difficulties. Typical glide pot works as current limiter and should be near 470M Log. Typical pot on the DE's left side is 50k linear pots working as voltage dividers. So, you have two options here.
1. You should find some log pot with close value on the PCB (more than 100k) (probably Resonance, Attack, Release, Decay, LFO Rate) and replace it with dual one with identical value.
2. You should purchase two dual pots: with one value and type corresponding to Glide pot option and one identical to pot in the hole you are planning to use. Then you need combine these two units into one.
Unfortunately both of this ways need some engineering skills but should give you the best results without serious injure to original module casing.

Always you have a traditional way to drill the hole on the interface side and intall the pot with plastic... "handle" (like adjustment pots on old TV Sets like classic Trinitrons)   

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, christian ienni <ienni23@...> wrote:

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> hi Dieter! i was considering adding the glide option to my Dark Energy, but my unit is one of the very early ones that doesn't have the hole & plastic plug in front for the glide knob placement. i'm guessing unless i completely diassemble the entire unit and try to manually drill a hole myself i'm out of luck? just thought i'd ask. thanks! -chris
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thank you Richard! that looks like just the ticket for me, since i'm going to have to do some drilling anyway. and your demonstration of a full disassembly confirms that is the way to go - there was no way i was going to try drilling a hole in the case with the electronics still inside. and the placement on the back is genius (i'm getting senile in my old age; i can't believe *that* location didn't occur to me!).thanks again, that's a great help! --chris



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 From: Richard van der Meer <ricardodilago@gmail.com>
To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 1:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Doepfer_a100] glide option for early dark energy unit?
 
Chris,

have a look at my video, where i installed the glide in an older DE
this is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YetqcigMI

maybe it can inspire you to do the same

regards

Richard

2012/9/13 christian ienni <ienni23@yahoo.com>

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>
>
> hi Dieter! i was considering adding the glide option to my Dark Energy,
> but my unit is one of the very early ones that doesn't have the hole &
> plastic plug in front for the glide knob placement. i'm guessing unless i
> completely diassemble the entire unit and try to manually drill a hole
> myself i'm out of luck? just thought i'd ask. thanks! -chris
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>  
>



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*
*Richard van der Meer*
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*check out my music at:*
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*
*
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