2004-10-16 by Robert Roesler
Hi John, I'm using SPC Technology type 844 and 845 connectors, and they fit quite nicely in the MOTM's preexisting holes without further modification. Bob On 10/16/04 6:03 AM, "John P" johnp299792@... > wrote: > > Do you need a grommet or washer to fill in the 1/4 hole for MOTM?
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2004-10-16 by Blake Wilson
Thanks for all the replies. Would the following be true... 1 - Disconnect the hot lead from the 1/8 or 1/4 and connect to the newly installed banana jack. 2 - Remove the ground wire as needed. 3 - Connect a ground wire from the power supply of unit (A) to the ground of Serge powe
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2004-10-16 by synpro@aol.com
Thanks for all the replies. Would the following be true... 1 - Disconnect the hot lead from the 1/8 or 1/4 and connect to the newly installed banana jack. 2 - Remove the ground wire as needed. 3 - Connect a ground wire from the power supply of unit (A) to the ground of Serge powe
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2004-10-16 by John P
Do you need a grommet or washer to fill in the 1/4 hole for MOTM? Robert Roesler wrote: >I have 5 MOTM VCO's, 4 MOTM VCLFO's, 2 MOTM Quad LFO's, 2 Blacet VCO's and a >number of DIY modules that are all banana'd. All have external power >supplies (Power One), and I do what STS doe
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2004-10-16 by Robert Roesler
I’m fairly certain I had to drill out the 1/8” jack holes in the blacet modules (not so for the 1/4” jack holes in the MOTM’s). Another consideration I didn’t mention earlier is that if the original jacks are board mounted, there will obviously be additional work involved. Blake,
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2004-10-16 by Blake Wilson
>how difficult is it to replace 1/8" jacks with banana jacks? is >drilling required to get the holes bigger to fit the banana jacks? >I'm considering replacing all the jacks on a vostok with banana >jacks for easier integreation. a patchbay seems way too annoying. >But perhaps re
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2004-10-16 by Ryan Ryan
how difficult is it to replace 1/8" jacks with banana jacks? is drilling required to get the holes bigger to fit the banana jacks? I'm considering replacing all the jacks on a vostok with banana jacks for easier integreation. a patchbay seems way too annoying. But perhaps replaci
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2004-10-16 by Robert Roesler
true, sorry, i should have mentioned that... Bob On 10/15/04 9:11 PM, "James R. Coplin" moog@... > wrote: > > Be advised that anything that has normaled connections it is not as straight > forward. One feature of the regular jacks is that they can function one way > if nothing is
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2004-10-16 by James R. Coplin
Be advised that anything that has normaled connections it is not as straight forward. One feature of the regular jacks is that they can function one way if nothing is connected and then the signal can be broken when a cable is present in the jack. You can't do this with banana ja
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2004-10-15 by Robert Roesler
I have 5 MOTM VCO's, 4 MOTM VCLFO's, 2 MOTM Quad LFO's, 2 Blacet VCO's and a number of DIY modules that are all banana'd. All have external power supplies (Power One), and I do what STS does; the power supplies each have a Ground Banana jack, and I strap them together. I have had
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2004-10-15 by synpro@aol.com
...and a frac rac of bananaized doepfer and ASys and blacet stuff and i'm loving it. blake" Hi, I was wondering if anyone else has added bannan jacks to an alternative synth system to work with the Sereg and what is involved? If you replace standard jacks with banana jacks what d
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2004-10-15 by johnrichoux
As a postscript to this discussion- I took my standard SKB mixer case and after about ten minutes of filing on the two back plates, I can put a 4" panel in the top position, and it opens without scratching. ("A silly millimeter longer!") My power connector is sort of dangling aro
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2004-10-15 by johnrichoux
--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com , "Scott E." wrote: > KMPX survived until 1982. KSAN was in existance by 1968, as Tom Donahue > and most of the KMPX staff moved to KSAN in May of 1968 after the > strike. Tom Donahue died in 1975. That seems to mesh well with what I have found
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2004-10-14 by Scott E.
KMPX survived until 1982. KSAN was in existance by 1968, as Tom Donahue and most of the KMPX staff moved to KSAN in May of 1968 after the strike. Tom Donahue died in 1975. Scott ----------------------------------- johnrichoux wrote: > > That's quite a story. > > By the way - woul
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2004-10-14 by johnrichoux
That's quite a story. By the way - would that have been KMPX or KSAN? I'm still trying to reconcile some dates. jmr
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2004-10-14 by Scott E.
John, I used to listen to and record KMPX quite frequently during this time period myself. I recall the surf/synth stuff, but have no idea of its source. Sounds like Moog to me. One thing I remember distinctly from my taping sessions was the evening of August 6th, 1970. There was
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2004-10-14 by johnrichoux
Does anyone in the forum remember KMPX 106.9, San Francisco, circa 1969? Posted to my website (url below) are some clips from a live broadcast I taped, just before the station changed formats. There are also a couple of paragraphs with as much historical context I can remember. I
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2004-10-11 by Cynthia Webster
> Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:01:59 -0000 > From: "fhserge" Frank.Hettlich@... > > Subject: Knobs of old Seges vs. new Serge > Hello all serge-fans, Congratulations Frank, six panels is mighty nice! > as a proud owner of a very old Serge 4 panel system (mid 70s) and 2
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2004-10-11 by sydilaxe
Does anyone have instructions on making an extension cable for a newer serge panel to the power distribution board? I would love a prefabbed cable as I am extremely busy these days (and lazy as well), so if anyone has one for sale please contact me. Thanks! Ben
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2004-10-11 by Steve Ridley
For those of you with an interest in older Serges, I've stuck a few pics from my 1979/80 catalogue in the files section. They fill out the gap between the 1970s catalogue and the 1981 catalogue. Most are the last versions of old modules before they were wiped out by "81 Series" m
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2004-10-11 by Kyle Jarger
Sorry to bother everyone. cuari7, I'm having trouble E-mailing you, please contact me off-list reagarding the Serge PSUs you had for sale. Thanks, jkjelec jkjelecatcomcast.net
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2004-10-10 by cuari7
Yo, Frank! Good to see you're enjoying your Animal. I just came back from a trip so I haven't had access to my email, but when I do I'll drop you a line regarding shipment date of your other panel. How's that Cwejman sounding, dood? cuari
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2004-10-10 by fhserge
Hello all serge-fans, as a proud owner of a very old Serge 4 panel system (mid 70s) and 2 new Serge panels (big thanks to "cuari"), I would like to exchange the "ugly" knobs on my old panels with the beautiful looking newer ones. My questions are: - what kind of knobs are used in
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2004-10-09 by johnrichoux
Thanks to everybody who chimed in. I have a much better picture of the problem. Rex indicated that I without modification I would be unable to tilt-up the rack. I can see that now - by comparing my two cases, the two brackets in the back of the STS case have been shaved 1/16". I
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2004-10-09 by darkstr1746@comcast.net
For awhile i had three panels in a SKB. I never had any problem as long as i wasnt trying to mount one of the deeper chassis. Rex makes what he calls a "transit" chassis which will fit into just about anything. Most of the panels i have will fit into the SKB, but i don't take it
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2004-10-09 by John P
I have 3 panels in an SKB case... to clear the power distribution board the bottom panel must be a TKB or a panel that's in the less-deep aluminum box. > > > > > -- m/n/m/l surreal electronic music, sound, noise http://mnml.soulcatcher.net
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2004-10-09 by John Loffink
Regarding SKB popup cases, there are two brackets in the back used as ledges for when the rack is folded down. These brackets will scrape against the deeper 4 inch chassis that STS prefers to use. SKB modification requires cutting these brackets lengthwise so they don’t obstruct
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2004-10-09 by Julian
Hey, i dont even have any serge stuff at all (i lurk on many lists for technique though) but i do have a couple of other modulars on skb pop-up mixer cases. Appart from the (aproximatly) 5" depth limits, theres also a problem at the back/top of the case, where there are brackets
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2004-10-09 by johnrichoux
--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com , Peter Grenader wrote: > What's the required modification? I'm really not sure. Rex tried to explain to me in some detail, but I didn't follow it to well over the phone. I have a standard SKB mixer case to compare it with. Of course there are
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2004-10-08 by John P
It's nice... worth a listen... >...Time to crank up your computer speakers and give a listen to a >recent mp3 which has been uploaded Barry Schrader's website - > > http://www.barryschrader.com/ > >
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2004-10-08 by (i think you can figure that out)
OK guys - Although not directly tied to a Serge, you remember Barry Schrader's name came up a while ago in regards to a performance he did with Serge in 1972 or so, so I thought you may appreciate this. ...Time to crank up your computer speakers and give a listen to a recent mp3
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2004-10-08 by Bob Hearn
On Oct 6, 2004, at 3:38 PM, paradigmshiftbeats wrote: > Although Bob's AD patch was new to me, I have used a similar patch > for a more complex EG. For those of you who don't have a Serge ADSR > ... That's very clever. There are a couple of differences from the ADSR module: - If
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2004-10-08 by Peter Grenader
What's the required modification? johnrichoux wrote: > > > Anybody have an extra STS-modified SKB mixer case they would like to sell? I > have one > for my original "Blue Funstation", but in the years since I have added 3 more > panels. I > would like to be more portable than I a
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2004-10-08 by johnrichoux
Anybody have an extra STS-modified SKB mixer case they would like to sell? I have one for my original "Blue Funstation", but in the years since I have added 3 more panels. I would like to be more portable than I am at present. I checked with Rex and he isn't messing with them any
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2004-10-08 by Carbon111
> By the way my previous post didn't make it here: So does anyone know > what company manufactures the rack that holds the 7-panel Serge in > www.serge-fans.com http://www.serge-fans.com > gallery link? > Hey Yannis, Not only did your post reach the list but it was answered by Bl
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2004-10-08 by Ioannis Kazlaris
Hi, I once dreamt of a mamooth Moog Modular that had legs and was hunting me. Wondering what that means... By the way my previous post didn't make it here: So does anyone know what company manufactures the rack that holds the 7-panel Serge in www.serge-fans.com gallery link? Yann
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2004-10-06 by paradigmshiftbeats
Although Bob's AD patch was new to me, I have used a similar patch for a more complex EG. For those of you who don't have a Serge ADSR (or could sometimes use an extra) you can create a close approximate using a DSG/DTG and an ACPR Active Processor. Keep in mind this requires an
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2004-10-06 by paradigmshiftbeats
My apologies to John and others for this late reply, but I've been out of pocket for the last week. Such a good thing I wasn't around to answer quickly, though, as I see the original question spun off an interesting flip-flop thread, not to mention the re-emergence of Bob Hearn (
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2004-10-06 by srmaietta
I had a dream lastnight where I found a serge panel in the trash. it had red and yellow mini banana jacks and the panel was unlabeled, but I flipped it over and sew the circuit boards with "Serge" and module names on them.. I remember saying to myself, "Wow this is going to be th
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2004-10-06 by Carbon111
> Oh, I should have mentioned that the original poster specifically did > *not* want a sustain, just attack/decay. > If you feed a gate into both trig. in and input on a DSG, you get > sustain. Ok...the original thread does go back a ways ;) I thought if you put a trigger pulse (
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2004-10-06 by Bob Hearn
> To get an AR (or ASR for that matter) that will retrigger before the > cycle end, use the Input *and* the trigger input together. My MIDI/CV > (Kenton Pro-Solo) has seperate gate and trigger outs. > Or am I missing something? > Best Regards, James Oh, I should have mentioned th
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2004-10-05 by srmaietta
Bob, nice thinking there! ~Steve --- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com , Bob Hearn wrote: > OK, so this thread is almost a month old, but I think this is a simpler > patch, that actually works better than the others proposed. The > question was, how to use a DSG/DTG to get a true a
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2004-10-05 by Bill Sequeira
Folks, My apologies for the inconvenience - I am using SPAM Interceptor and the filter generates the messages you have been receiving - if the filter believes you might be a furry, then sends the message and caches your original message until there is a response. If not, it is se
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2004-10-05 by darkstr1746@comcast.net
Uh... what's all this about? the attachment i got couldn't be opened. Help me mr. wizard!! help me. Is this some strange spam-o-rama thingee?? Does this mean that if i don't open a attachement i can't open anyway, that Bill won't see my posts?? Bummer Ted. He's probably better of
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2004-10-05 by Carbon111
> OK, so this thread is almost a month old, but I think this is a simpler > patch, that actually works better than the others proposed. The > question was, how to use a DSG/DTG to get a true attack/decay envelope, > which can be retriggered before completely decaying. To get an A
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2004-10-05 by Ryan Ryan
btw, i'm not getting anymore emails from bill. maybe onceyou say your email isn't spam it doesn't ask again?:o Bob Hearn wrote: Eek, speaking of spam, in your last post two of my email addresses appear, ready for spiders to grab from the SMOG web pages. OK, so including an addres
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2004-10-05 by Bob Hearn
Eek, speaking of spam, in your last post two of my email addresses appear, ready for spiders to grab from the SMOG web pages. OK, so including an address in the text was my fault (but on the website, it is filtered out via a link on my original posts, so I thought it was safe). B
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2004-10-05 by Ryan Ryan
I don't really mind it. But if others do why not try and ask him to sign up for the digest instead? but i guess then he won't get anything i doubt yahoo would email back and say "this isn't spam" hehe:-) Bob Hearn wrote: On Oct 5, 2004, at 9:05 AM, Chris Whitten wrote: > > do oth
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2004-10-05 by Bob Hearn
On Oct 5, 2004, at 9:05 AM, Chris Whitten wrote: > > do other listmembers receive a polite note from "bill sequira" asking > > you to click on a link to "verify" you're not spamming him after > > you've posted to the list? > Yes and I think it's a pain in the bum! > So I haven't
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2004-10-05 by Blake Wilson
> > do other listmembers receive a polite note from "bill sequira" asking >> you to click on a link to "verify" you're not spamming him after >> you've posted to the list? >Yes and I think it's a pain in the bum! >So I haven't done it. talk about spam! you post to a list, and you
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