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case-builder's questions

2007-09-29 by NoRMaN PHaY

OK, I have my first lot of Plan B modules here (they're very
impressive, they sound great in fact), I'm rolling some ideas around
in my head for a case for them.  I don't want to go for the garden
variety rack case, it takes up too much space. ideally I want to build
something up like a smaller version of the Buchla scissor case.  Three
or maybe four rows, and it'll fold in half so I can take it out and
play live  and it won't eat up a load of space in the car or onstage.
 I've got a couple of questions, one for Peter, one a more general
euro-rack format related one.

Firstly, what is likely to be the maximum depth of any Plan B module,
is there a "this is as deep as it's going to get" standard?  I'd like
to make the boats as shallow as possible.  The deepest thing I have
here is the dual timbral gate, if there's going to be many modules
that are that deep, then it's going to be hard to construct a scissor
case that'll fold up nicely.  I guess this is a plea for shallower
modules, like the VCO!  What is the deepest module in the current
lineup, and is anything in the future likely to go further back?

The second thing is regarding the width of rack rails.  Is it possible
to get these in widths wider than 84 units?  I don't want to go too
wide, but it did occur to me that something wide enough to take the
big sequencer and the tap clock in the same row, or 4 VCOs, 4 of the
little expanders and a couple of 4u mults that Doepfer does (it would
rock if Plan B did a similar 4u mult) would make for a more logical
layout, seeing as I'm not too bothered about rack mounting.  As with
my frac racks, I look at euro rack ears and think "you could fit
another module in there!
 
best wishes & all that.

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