Analogue-sequencer

Hi all,

LATEST NEWS
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I learned from Stooge Larry yesterday that a 10 unit wide 
Stooge panel (that will fit in a 19" rack when using the 
MOTM rack rails) is possible, even with the single square 
hole for the LCD. So that is good news.

I'm not going as fast as I would like to, so we may miss the 
current Stooge panel run. Be prepared. ;)


BENNIE'S PANEL
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I decided to base the Stooge panel layout on a beautiful 
design from list member Bennie Vreemann.  Note that I will 
do some redesign though, as described below.

Bennie, Boele and I met a couple of weeks ago, and I was 
able to see his panel in real life. It looks great.  Have a 
look at this (blurry) picture of this P3 panel:

http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/p3/P3-Bennie.jpg

That darker area below the LCD is just a metal fix he had to 
make for the buttons below there, so try to ignore that. 
The Schaeffer panel design (below) is corrected, says 
Bennie.

His original panel is using a Schaeffer panel. Note the much 
larger LCD and the sexy buttons. Data on Bennie's original 
Schaeffer panel and the used partlist is here:

http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/p3/P3-Bennie.fpd
http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/p3/P3-Bennie-partlist.txt
http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/p3/P3-Bennie-partlist.pdf



CHANGES
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Now have a look at the picture again to see what I will 
change for the Stooge panel:

1. The 3 MIDI jacks will be removed from the front panel. 
You will have mount them somewhere on the back of the 
panel.

2. The row of F1-PAGE buttons, as well as the DATA and TEMPO 
knobs will be moved right by one grid position. Meaning 
that the F1 button will be positioned where the F2 button 
is now shown on the pic, and the TEMPO knob will end up 
below the right most MIDI jack (but the MIDI jacks will be 
removed).

3. The LCD will be moved left a bit, to center align it with 
the F2 button.

4. All knobs will get tick marks, MOTM style.

5. Some panel graphics will be added. The row of numbers 
(1-16) will also be printed above the bottom green buttons. 
And I'd also like to add a horizontal line there, 
indicating track 1-8 and bank 1-8.

Any suggestions???

- Robert

> Bennie, Boele and I met a couple of weeks ago, and I was 
> able to see his panel in real life. It looks great.  Have a 
> look at this (blurry) picture of this P3 panel:
> 
> http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/p3/P3-Bennie.jpg

That does look good. I guess there must be a lot of wiring behind 
there though ?
Maybe if there's enough people wanting to use this panel layout, an 
alternative PCB layout could be done to suit.
I haven't got time to do this myself, but if someone else wanted to, 
I can provide the schematic file or net lists for the pot & switch 
boards.

Cheers,
Colin f

--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, Robert van der Kamp 
<robnet@w...> wrote:

> Bennie, Boele and I met a couple of weeks ago, and I was 
> able to see his panel in real life. It looks great.  Have a 
> look at this (blurry) picture of this P3 panel:
> 
> http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/p3/P3-Bennie.jpg
> 
> Any suggestions???

Looks great! 

The function buttons (F1.... etc) are a bit small. They are used so 
often it would be nice for them to be a bit bigger. The space used 
to have the labels above the buttons is very costly. 

I like the idea of adding the additional labeling of the bank 1-8. I 
will probably create some custom labels for mine.

Sayer

On Tuesday 24 February 2004 18:19, Sayer wrote:
> The function buttons (F1.... etc) are a bit small. They
> are used so often it would be nice for them to be a bit
> bigger. The space used to have the labels above the
> buttons is very costly.

Hey Sayer!

You could probably use other buttons there, if the drilled 
hole in the Stooge panel has the right size. You could also 
get the Stooge panel and do the drilling yourself.

>
> I like the idea of adding the additional labeling of the
> bank 1-8. I will probably create some custom labels for
> mine.

Tell me, what custom labels would you add?