Something else to consider, I found, is how you arrange your modules in
the cabinets. I move the modules around quite a bit in my three 26U
wide dot com Stoogified MOTM cabinets. I used to have all the VCOs in
the upper left and the filters, wave warpers (soon, soon!), etc., on the
upper right, with the VCAs on the lower right. With the advent of the
third cabinet, the VCOs moved to the upper right with the filters in the
middle cabinet right, VCAs still lower right. All the control stuff is
on the left side now. So my signal flow is top to bottom and control is
left to right. I find that with this new arrangement I use more 2 and 3
foot patch cords, and fewer 4 footers.
It's hard to predict exactly what you'll need. Just remember that you
can always use a 2-foot cord to replace a 1-foot cord, but not
vice-versa. My quantities:
16 1-foot
24 2-foot
24 3-foot
12 4-foot
4 5-foot (needed for the extreme diagonal patches on my 26U wide by
3-high cabinets)
Most of these are Dot Com cables. A few are Stooge. I also have some
longer Stooge cables for patching to studio equipment.
-Richard Brewster
Scott Juskiw wrote:
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>That's a good estimate. The most frequently used cables are likely to
>be 2 and 3 footers for the cabinet you have planned. 1 footers are
>great for syncing oscillators and semi-permanantly patching in a
>JLH-822 to them. You'll need the longer cables to get from the far
>left end to the far right end.
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>Figuring out quantity is tougher because it depends on how you use
>your synth. The upper limit is to count the number of jacks and
>divide by 2 to get the number of cables. I've never used all jacks in
>a patch, but I often use half of them, sometimes up to 2/3, when
>creating self running/evolving soundscapes. But when I'm patching
>together a simpler minimoog-like structure (even if it's four
>voices), I'll use considerably less of those jacks, maybe 1/4. I
>think 53 cables will be fine for a 24U x 2 row system, based on my
>experiences.
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