You're right on about the spacing and logic of the front panels on the
Doepfer. I have a large system and find the locations confusing at times.
Back in the 70's I designed and built my own synths here are some tips, hope
it helps...

## don't make your panels too large, you'll end up with a giant system and
you'll have to connect miles of cable just to create your sounds. Doepfer's
panel aren't a bad size as long as you use small knobs and 3.5 jacks.
## you can make very professional looking panel by using "press-on letters"
for your labels. These letters simple press onto your panel and if you take
care in lining everything up it's a very pro finish. I used to spray on a
coat or two of clear plastic to protect the lettering.
## In my designs I tried to be consistent with my input and output -- I
would put all the inputs on the left side of the panel, outputs would be on
the right and control voltages and triggers on the bottom. This worked out
very nice for most panels.
## I also used banana plugs for the control voltages/gates/triggers. I
liked the color it added and it was easy to find. again, use the same color
for throughout your design. I think I used red for triggers/gates and black
for control voltage. Some of my later synths had binary logic so I added a
third color -- yellow.

I hope this helps you out -- just remember to plan everything out before you
start drilling panels!

Rick Guido



-----Original Message-----
From: martin olson [mailto: martin@... ]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 2:08 AM
To: doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
Subject: 1 redux of all fronts


one thing i don´t like about Doepfer;
the layout of the frontpanels (too small), no logic relations between
different/simular modules, like the a-120&a-121.
therfore im planning to build my own frontplates using
***larger aluminium frontpanels(three sizes +100% in y-axis(LONGER))
***moore spacing between knobs,
***in/out jacks&knobs on same x&y axis from mod. to mod.
***better marking /diffrent colours on audioin&out,cvin&out,tr in etc.
***switch from 3.5" to bananajacks (how to do )

someone else on the same wavelength

//dnfn

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