[sdiy] Son of Frankenstein system update (posting)

[Dave Magnuson]

Love the case... looks great!

Dave Magnuson



At 06:47 PM 5/29/02 -0600, Peter Grenader wrote:
>kids,
>
>thought I'd give you an update on the system I'm slapping together, plus a
>link for you to see a photo:
>
>http://www.allegrobikes.com/synth.jpg
>
>this camera has a wide lens on it.  It's a scant 26.5 inches wide.
>
>short explanation:
>
>This is where it lies now, awaiting my faceplates to come back from
>imaging/drilling.  What's missing is:
>
>Top Row:
>
>2 Blacet EGs, 2 Blacet Processors, 3 Buchla Low Pass Gates, Moog clone
>filter, Homebrew Envelope Follower, H.B. AND/NAND gate, H.B.noise source,
>H.B. dual voltage adder, H.B. voltage inverter, H.B. programmable pulse gen,
>H.B. seqeuncer and output section of the sequencer on the bottom panel (the
>Doepfer).
>
>Second top Row:
>
>4 Blacet osc, Blacet FIlter, Blacet Ring.
>
>The rest of the stuff you see here is a combination of Doepfer, Analog
>Systems and Analog Solutions.  All of the knobs on the Doe, Analog Sol and
>Homebrew stuff have been changed to the type Blacet and Analog Systems use,
>basically because they are a great deal at Mouser and I prefer the soft
>rubber.
>
>The space to the left of the MAQ 3/16 was intentionally left blank at the
>preset (future expansion) and yes, I am already stressing on what to put in
>there.  Some of it will be the MIDI to CV outputs.  I'm thinking of a
>flanger and a touch plate manual trigger or two.
>
>The cabinet was home built and quite inexpensive.  I went with the
>Buchlidian curve, only because it puts everything at easy reach.  It's made
>out of 3/4 inch MDF.  Those chassis boxes you see are made out of 16 g sheet
>metal.  That's what was recommended to assure good tapping of the threads
>needed to hold the modules in.  I'm thinking I should have gone with
>alluminum extrusions instead and left the boards exposed to the back. With
>nothing in it,  it weighs a ton.  Add the cxomponents, two tons.  The upside
>is I won't have to worry about theft unless there's an army of them!
>
>The top strip, which is one rack unit in hieght will host a slew of mults,
>two unity gain mixers and panel illumination lights.  The bottom panel is
>addmittedly a little tall, but I elected to do it this way because the
>outputs for the D sequencer are on bottom and I wanted paltny of room for
>clearence.  I was contimplating mod'ding the box to get the outputs on the
>top, but decided to keep it stock so I can sell it w/o explanation (file
>under : never say never).
>
>OK, give me a couple of weeks and I'll update with picture of the completed
>beast.
>
>Best,
>
>Peter 
>
>

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