MOTM

I'm happy to know that my website is useful!  It will expand in the 
future too.

Way back in the list archives, you might find some posts I made about 
panel density.  I am probably the only one who ever built the three 
Sample and Holds in 2U project:

http://www.pugix.com/top-cabinet.htm#motm101

Panel density is important to me, but I am wedded to MOTM format.  I do 
admire the aesthetic of the Modcan format.  It is cool that Cynthia 
Webster has made some MOTM, CGS, and others available in it.  BTW, the 
Miniwave is available from Modcan, did you know?  
http://www.modcan.com/modhtml/modules.html

Regarding shielding on VC inputs.  It is possible to ground only one end 
of a shielded cable and still get shielding.  That is probably better 
than grounding to the panel.  At audio frequencies it is not as much of 
an issue as it would be for RF.  On a 1V/octave input, the frequencies 
are not often in the audio range anyway, but most often DC from a 
keyboard.  If you are hooking to a banana jack, the shielding stops 
there anyway.  The cable plugged in isn't shielded.  A few inches of 
shielding won't make a lot of difference if you have a 3-foot unshielded 
patch cord plugged in.  So I wouldn't worry about it if you are doing 
the banana jack thing.

Richard Brewster
http://www.pugix.com

NoRMaN PHaY wrote:
> --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Andre Majorel <aym-htnys@...> wrote:
>   
> Those panel acreage figures are interesting!  Yes, it's purely down to
> space/panel density in my case.  My studio room is an attic, and a
> fairly small attic at that.  I tried attaching the cases to the inner
> roof surfaces (?) but the walls were closing in a bit.  If it was in a
> straight-walled room, I would not have a problem at all.
>
> The dotcom is even bigger?  Wow.
>
> The price is not an issue - Cynthia has quoted me a price which I
> thought quite reasonable.  The Banana sockets and the davis knobs as
> used on Serge, ModCan and Wiard synthesisers are cheap to buy.  I'm
> not planning on doing it all in one go - I'll do the Oakley MIDI-DAC
> first, then the VCOs, then the envelopes, and so on.  She already has
> panel designs for the sub-octave multiplexer c/w tellun add-on and the
> MOTM440 filter.  Several of the existing modules I was going to
> re-panel anyway - the multiplexer + Tellun mod, the ultra-LFO + Tellun
> mod and the 480 VCF + Pugix/m.u.u.b. mod (many, many thanks for
> posting all that info on yr site BTW, Mr Brewster).  The resale thing
> isn't an issue for me either - I generally tend to keep stuff I like
> for a long time, I was playing my Chroma the other day, and reflecting
> on the fact that I've had it for something like 20 years!  That's a
> long time...    I'm not planning on selling on any of my modular gear
> until I'm really old.
>
> Anyway, the 2 possible issues are the resistors on the VC input jacks
> on the VCOs, and a kind soul emailed me suggesting that w/o shielded
> cable, the signal returns might try to go back through the power
> supply?  If I keep the shielded cables, and attach the shields to the
> back of the panel, would that avoid this?
>
> Many thanks
>
>   
>> I think Norman's motivation is not looks but panel density. The
>> difference is on the order of 40% : 8.16 cm\ufffd per front panel
>> element for Modcan vs. about 11.6 cm\ufffd on average for MOTM.
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>> To put things into perspective, the figure is about 4.5 cm\ufffd for
>> Doepfer and 16 cm\ufffd for Arrick.
>>
>> -- 
>> Andr\ufffd Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
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>> See the URL above for contact information.
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