Modular Synth Panels

mrmike and my son, Will did a MOTM "style" design with a tiny bit of
tweaking from me.  Will and I haven't posted it on our Dragonfly Alley
site yet - I'll do so in a little while.

But here's what we mean and don't mean by MOTM "style."

In order to do a truly MOTM standard design with the standard 1" knobs
and with the standard 1U per knob horizontal  spacing (side to side),
it would require 16U - one unit for each sequencer step control knob,
switches, and LED.  And the standard vertical spacing between knobs
and switches in the upper part of a MOTM panel is 1-5/8 inches on
center.  So if one were willing to go to a 16U wide panel to
acommodate the step controls, one might be able to get the remaining
functions in below that.  We didn't try.

If you stay with the standard 1" knob size but squish them into less
horizontal space, and put all the elements on a 1" vertical grid (this
is the grid that lower MOTM elements, like jacks, are on) we found it
can be done in 13U (or so I recall).

If you reduce the knob size to 3/4" (like on some Tellun modules) and
squish them together, and use a 1" vertical grid, you can do it in 8U.

But the knobs and switches of this 8U panel won't align with your
other modules' jacks and switches.  So it's MOTM "style" not "standard."

To my rather OCD-addled brain, in my experience, when things line up
in nice horizontal lines, it's less jarring than when they don't. 
Maybe it even has something to do with how we're build to notice
things that stand out agains the horizon... like prey - or predators.
 So anyway - when it comes to building one of these things for
ourselves, we'll have to decide if I'll be able to tolerate the
mis-alignment or if I'll spend too much time staring at the Synth and
feeling like the sequencer is just wrong wrong wrong and so have to
build a 16U thing.

But for any sane and less neurotic human being, I think Mike and Will
did a great job of it.  Within the panel everything aligns nicely.

Bill


--- In ModularSynthPanels@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Verschoor"
<modular@...> wrote:
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> Hi Scott
> 
> Is there a MOTM style panel avaible yet?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dennis
> 
> On Dec 16, 2007 6:08 AM, Scott Deyo <contact@...> wrote:
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> > Surely. I could use another PCB on the pile : )
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