Modular Synth Panels

They _are_ much faster than me.
I blame my metal guys...
: )

That's good advice -- get it coated. The fingerprints all over mine 
drive me nuts, and I'm not the kind of guy to worry overly about such 
stuff.

I still have to view your file, though, Steve. Gotta drag out the PC.

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever? I'm tempted to make some spotty jokes 
about that, but I'll refrain.
; )

Cheers,
Scott Deyo
The Bridechamber
contact@...
http://www.bridechamber.com
Jealous Edison Record Kompany
http://www.jealousedison.com


On Jun 20, 2008, at 12:59 PM, adaaxs wrote:

> We all understand where you are coming from Steve. I occasionally 
> break down and get a
>  shaeffer panel but they I have to get it coated after I get it from 
> FPE or it will scratch up
>  madly , out of the box they are too fragile for the money. We are 
> still discussing knobs
>  and sliders and what kind of resistors to use and you want to go 
> ahead. Have you got a
>  non .fpd version of the file we can view ?
>
>  >
>  > Ok, I finally got around to finishing this one up - I would have 
> done
>  > it a week ago but had to deal with a case of Rocky Mountain Spotted
>  > fever - yuck. Tere's also a screen cap in the misc folder of the
>  > pictures section for instant gratification.
>  >
>  > I really wanted to work this into a 6u panel, hopefully incorporting
>  > parts of Thomas White's excellent rotary design, but just couldn't
>  > begin to make it all fit. It's pretty tight in 8u. I started with 
> Jeff
>  > Pontius's old milton design, and basically erased everything below 
> the
>  > middle, and incorporated lots of bits from Clickmrmike's and Will 
> and
>  > Bill's designs, juggling some switch positions to suit my tastes and
>  > putting back in the switch they left out (it's probably not 
> necessary,
>  > but there it is). Then I spent forever juggling everything around to
>  > make it look hunky-dory, at least kind of.
>  >
>  > Somehow in the course of doing this the price dropped a bit - my
>  > original layout with all the holes and labels was over 160$ (US), 
> but
>  > the finished version is about 146$ - go figure. I did replace a 
> bunch
>  > of loosely created place holder items with copied and pasted groups 
> of
>  > items, like the switch boxes - maybe that makes a difference.
>  >
>  > I'm highly tempted to create a color version of this one - once you
>  > sart adding color fills, it's just a flat rate 7$ addon, and you can
>  > use all the colors you want after that - so since I'm already 
> spending
>  > a bunch, why not? But there's the deciding on the miriad of choices
>  > part - fairly daunting. Anyone want to take a crack at this? It's 
> free
>  > until you press the buy button, of course.
>  >
>  > The hole sizes are all for the same hardware synthtech uses - 
> spectrol
>  > pots, switchcraft 1/4 jacks, nkk bat switches, lumex 5/16 leds, and
>  > all the knobs are meant to be the smaller version of the standard 
> motm
>  > style PKES-60B-1/4 knobs. Other stuff would also work fabulously in
>  > there, but remember to adjust the hole diameters to what you're 
> using.
>  >
>  > I'd love to get opinions and feedback on this - this was a pretty 
> big
>  > undrtaking, and I'm not a graphics designer by any means, so there's
>  > probably lots of design rules I've stepped all over. And while I've
>  > read the various klee manuals and checked with the interconnect
>  > schematics, I may have missed something - let me know if this is the
>  > case.
>  >
>  > Apologies to Scott Deyo for not waiting patiently for his soon-to-be
>  > much more excellent design, which will of course cost half as much,
>  > but I've got all the other parts sitting here burning a hole in my
>  > build time plans. Actually, I'm not really ready to order this yet,
>  > due to some financial tightness currently - maybe I'll come to my
>  > senses. And you know you'll be geting a bunch of my money soon 
> anyway
>  > for brackets for this and some other stuff, so it'll all work out.
>  > Brackets - I didn't really consider brackets in this design - I'm 
> sure
>  > there's something that'll work - we'll see.
>  >
>  > Steve Drake
>  >
>
>  
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