MOTM

The Y splitter sounds like a great idea.  Anyone who has used a banana
modular realizes how quick and effective that method of patching can be
despite misgivings about possible noise pickup in the unshielded cables.
Does anyone already have a source for inexpensive and reliable Y
splitter adapters?
 
I've thought about the normalized CV/Gate bus and believe you could do
this with just a simple PCB mounted inside the cabinet or even a barrier
strip.  You could use a 910 multiple as the distribution center,
probably breaking the link in the middle to fit CV and Gate on one
module.  Emu modulars had something like this.  Take the multiple
signals internally to a PCB or barrier strip, then connect them to the
NC switched jack tabs on the appropriate 1V/oct and gate jacks.  The
multiple gives you extra outputs to patch anywhere in your system.  Due
to the distances involved you'd probably want to use shielded cables for
the internal 1V/oct signal.  Has anyone done this?  One inconvenience I
can foresee is soldering to the jack tab requires putting a fixed length
wire to your normalized patch bay, so reconfiguration of modules within
a cabinet might be limited.  Maybe some quick disconnect type connector
should placed on the wires so that this option is more flexible and
expandable?
John Loffink
jloffink@... 
-----Original Message-----
From: elhardt@... [mailto:elhardt@...] 
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:15 AM
To: motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [motm] Multiple tip
 
I had one Radio Shack cable fail after three days. Yes, some of them are
crap. 
The Y-cables seem a bit better made. However, it's those other splitter
devices 
I'm saying are the most useful, and they aren't cables at all. They're
plastic 
adapters with male/female connectors on them. There is not much that can
fail 
there. I've been using them since I've had my MOTM with zero problems.
Just 
having a handful of them sitting ontop of a modular doesn't cause major 
disorder. People have different patching styles. But for many people,
patches 
that use fewer cables reducing clutter and allow banana plug type daisy 
chaining is a nice advantage.

In fact I'm thinking about putting in a CV/Gate bus like John Mitchell
did on 
his Synth.com. That would reduce more cable mess in a patch. I wish that
were 
built into the MOTM from the start.

-Elhardt