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Good points both. I've tried to work through those issues by making a 
template of the side first, and by bolting modules into the rails and 
checking the knob / jack / plug interaction between rows. I found 
that a 20 degree tilt between 2 rows (that's 160 degrees total angle 
for the math challenged) still allowed for comfortable reaching of 
the top knob in a module with plugs directly above.

I am also trying to combat cable pile up by tilting the 'C' slightly 
backward, so that the top row is still pointing slightly downward, 
but is not at so drastic an angle as the front.

So it's really more of a 'tilted parenthesis' shape than a C shape. 
I'll build the thing, stuff it full, and report back to the list 
honestly on any ergonomic problems I find.

The template for the side as I plan on building it is at:

http://motm.retrosynth.com/moe_stuff/case_pics/case_profiles2.jpg

Moe

--- In motm@y..., ixqy@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 2/21/01 12:49:31 AM Central Standard Time, 
> elhardt@a... writes:

>>  spaceship.  But you have to be careful about too much of a C 
>> shape. Otherwise you get cables dangling down like spagetti too 
>> far infront of the synth and cable piling up on the bottom 
>> modules, and also possibly nudging knobs.  It's not neccessarily 
>> as practical as it seems.
> 
>  With the C shape angles, I wonder if the cables' metal housing at 
> the bottom of an upper row would interfere with the top most knobs 
> of the row directly below ?  The C shape is pretty neat though.
> 
>  Andrew Sanchez