Doepfer

hi all,

personally, i could live with a ten euro increase. perhaps it would make sense to offer the 
four channel version (or 3 ?) complete, with a piggy back connection round the back for 
further single channels ? i imagine that would make the alternative filter slopes and stuff 
more difficult though.

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, <hardware@...> wrote:
>
> > this applies to both versions: why not separate each of the mini
> "channel-strips" into
> > individual modules, each with an input at the front, but the output as a
> ribbon cable,
> > connected to the next module ? at the end of the chain you'd need a 4TE
> module with the
> > output jacks, or possibly a second version with 6,5mm jacks ?
> >
> > would four channels be that much more expensive in such a form ?
> 
> Yes a bit. The price of the electronics would remain the same. But the price
> of several small front panels is much higher than one large single front
> panel because the sanding, anodizing and silk screen is calculated per piece
> and nearly independent from the size of the panel. I expect that you will
> have to add about Euro 10 additional charges for each sub-unit compared to
> the version with one large panel.
> 
> > the advantages of an open number of channels are obvious enough, and a low
> cost/low
> > space mini-a109 could prove handy in many a situation.
> 
> I agree that your idea has a lot of advantages: the number of sub-units can
> be chosen by the customer (not fixed to 4 any other quantity) and additional
> expansions (e.g. filter type converter for other slopes than lowpass, e.g.
> high, band, notch, allpass with several dB/oct) can be added much easier and
> at the user's conception.
> 
> Best wishes
> Dieter Doepfer
>