Muff's Modules & More

numan7 · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:05 pm Post subject:

i am definitely interested!

why not in black though? i think that syntha looks more stunning that way!

cheers

Isaiah · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:31 am Post subject:

Isaiah · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:51 am Post subject:

Added screen shots and FPD files of my VCO A and VCF to the "Front Panel Proof Reading Thread" if anyone wants to take a look Guinness ftw!

Cheers!

frozenkore · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:10 am Post subject:

Rod Serling Fan Club · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:21 am Post subject:

negativspace · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:27 pm Post subject:

FPE does discounts at 5x, 10x, 20x but it's still a lot pricier than Metalphoto. Quality is stellar, though. Have you explored other options @ MPC? They do other processes, maybe black with white silkscreen is an option?

Rod Serling Fan Club · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:45 pm Post subject:

Actually it looks like the metalphoto process in black does look pretty good if this example is anything to go by:

Personally I could go either way. I think these would look very nice in alum or black. The original synthasystems were made both ways as well (alum background early, black later). I thought there might be a little more appeal for silver color panels as that is the euro standard. Alum background would be nice if you wanted other DIY euro with panels that would still fit in next to the steiner panels, or if they only wanted a couple steiner projects to fit in with an existing euro setup. Like I said, I am open to go either way. If we did get black you probably want to get washers to avoid rack-rash.

negativspace · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:02 pm Post subject:

FWIW for Euro panels I prefer the aluminum look given the existing design language in the format. thumbs up

Rod Serling Fan Club · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:19 pm Post subject:

I like the alum border against the black on the example above. Seems like a cool panel idea similar to the e-mu modular panels.

Rod Serling Fan Club · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:30 pm Post subject:

My logic is generally the same as negativespace but now that I think about it, the idea of heavy black metalphoto panels would look really nice.

Changes to the oscillator: I dropped the v/oct trimmer as I felt it was redundant. I move and aligned the VC 3 knob to make it look symmetrical and added a linear FM input.

I was also thinking that in addition to the Synthasystem VCF, I'd like to add one of the Synthacon VCFs to my system so I made a panel:

nangu · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:07 am Post subject:

I'm in. Not sure how much farther my friends are going to follow me down the path of eternal backlog, so I can't promise that it'll be my usual '5+ of everything'. It wouldn't surprise me if it turns out like that, though..

The heavy black panels look fantastic! I was expecting to vote for aluminum, but either would be great as far as I'm concerned. Very cool!

Rod Serling Fan Club · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:44 pm Post subject:

Do your guys want mounting holes on the front panels like on david's panels or do you prefer other means of attaching the PCB which doesn't require screw heads on the front panel (i.e. JBweld or L brackets attached to pots, etc.)?

His smaller panels are 7hp. I know odd-hp panels give some people heartache. I'd prefer to leave them as is but if this is a big deal, speak now.

I may order a quantity of one panel to see how they turn out and then start taking orders for groups of panels to save you and me shipping hassle. Probably something like this:
group 1
VCO
3xEG
VCF
VCA

group 2
Noise
Balanced Modulator
S&H
Phase Shifter

and so on...

numan7 · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:00 pm Post subject:

That would be awesome - I think that I would be ok with panel holes for mounting pcbs, and 7 hp unit-width.

woah

Those panel designs above look gorgeous, btw! And the Synthacon multi-mode vcf is a great addition to the Syntha system.

cheers

Rod Serling Fan Club · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:03 pm Post subject:

I only wanted to change a couple of these panels (the VCO and VCF). The rest I will probably leave as is. The VCF control layout has more symmetry this way and is a bit more pleasing to my eyes. You be the judge:

Here's is what the unchanged design looked like:

Rod Serling Fan Club · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:51 pm Post subject:

Well it's been a few days since I posted the order thread for the first panel and there have been zero orders. Considering it would arguably be the most popular panel of the bunch and I would need a minimum of 15 order per panel, I'm starting to think this idea is DOA. If there is something I could or should be doing differently, please let me know. If there just isn't enough interest, there isn't much I can do about that.

ndkent · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:20 pm Post subject:

nangu · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:46 am Post subject:

I'm definitely in for 3, and that will probably turn into 6.

Lots of other panels and projects going on right now- maybe people are just broke and/or focusing on things that have cutoff dates.

Rod Serling Fan Club · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:03 am Post subject:

Rod Serling Fan Club · Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 2:19 pm Post subject:

I apologize to the few people who might have wanted to participate but I just don’t think we will get the minimum numbers. I never intended for this to be something that was going to drag out for months and months as I have a large portion of my Steiner PCBs populated and ready to go. I’ve decided to use member Julian to make panels similar to the FPE panel. If you are looking for a better deal on panels than FPE, I suggest using him. Here is his website: http://www.thebeast.co.uk/purchase/index.html

numan7 · Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 3:09 pm Post subject:

what a bummer (sorry i hadn't noticed the order thread - would have been down for of each panel... guess i'll try to figure out ordering from fpe or the-beast at some point, since i still would like to have synthas in my system).

good luck with your build, RSFC!

cheers