
awesome thread parasitk. I've been thinking we
need this thread, maybe keep it rolling with all out trials & tribulations as we all go along.
I have started... slowly but surely! I can add a couple of modules to the piss easy, don't think twice about it, even your drunk uncle could do it despite constantally stopping to get you to pull his finger...
Oakley Little Lag (my bet is all the oakleys would be similar, they use the larger minijacks & the 5U under & over layout)
Banalogue 3P - despite the fact I feel kinda guilty pulling a nice little daughterboard jack mounting thing out, real easy!
(sorry, bit sketchy, its early)
BananaPlug will be able to answer this better than me, but, pull up resistors can be used where a connection needs to be high in its nominal state, like the Gate(rst) In on the Binary Zone, this is really easy, its just a resistor & there will already be a pad on the PCB where the normalled socket was hooked up, basically what happens is when you have no banana in the Gate(Rst) is pulled high keeping everything ticking along, when a jack is inserted the output impedance of the sending module overcomes the pull up resistor & you can jam your signal in.
Modules I am worried about; VCS... this has boardmounted jacks.. but there are transistors / resistors on those board, unlike the 3P, so you need to keep the little boards & remove the jacks. Little bit more de-soldering & will need some tricky way to re-mount the little boards

I'm going to do some others before I tackle that one!
The only other annoyance I have is most of my metalbox modules have panel mount LEDs which are epoxied in place, this just means I'll have de-solder the wires from the board in order to remove the electronics prior to hole expanding. Still pretty easy converts because of the way the panels are laid out & all flying wires.
With the grounds I'm just tucking them away so they don't accidentally short to anything. The Lag is a wire which I just trimmed right back & stuffed inside the heatshrink that already shielded the wire. Too easy. With the 3P I just soldered my wires into the holes on the main board, these where linked to the jack board via jumpers which I removed, all very nice in the end.
At the moment I have 4 Frac'nana modules

loving every minute of it!
the bad producer wrote:but have started to convert Doepfer and Plan B to Bananafrac (this probably seems like a silly idea!)
This makes so much sense it hurts
the bad producer wrote:I tend to put two sockets in place of switching jacks, which I can then link together with a patch cable or shorting bar to normalise.
Very cool! This has just changed the way I've been thinking about the Blacet micro LFO which normals a pulse into the CV in in order to bend the waveshape when no CV is used, gonna check the schem to see if I can get away with bringing it out to the front panel, I think the most I'd need to do is stick a 1K resisitor inbtween the pad & the banana!