box'o'trix case design

here is my revised and completed first draft (click for bigger)
it measures 1.5' high, 4.5' deep, 12.25' long
the power plug will be on the side or i might remove a set of the common ground plugs and put it on the back

i am waiting on a big shipment with almost all of the remaining parts, only a few to go after that so i hope that this box will be completed about the same time as my 808. if all goes well this will be within 3 months.

Full case

Added the digisound80 13 and 80-15 (External Input / Envelope Follower & Processor / Lag)
and now it is finished! I think this will be a versatile machine. 2 dedicated VCOs but i can also generate signals from the woggle bug, mankato vcf and from the external input. There is 4 lfos in the doomsday machine. I also have the utility lfo and of course the controls from the wogglebug. I can process all these control signals with the analog computer logic functions and comperators. I also have lots of expanders and filters all with extensive modulation control. I also have the buchla envelopes which should make some nice shapes. Finally for effects i have the phaser and the reverb.

Currently i have about 4 of the modules built and parts of a few done. Ill try get 4 or 5 more done in the next few months but i hope to get all the faceplates built in soon. Happy times indeed.

colour!!!!, well 1 colour :)

Well i found a cheap source of banana sockets, 10cents each for blue and white. They are the deep banana jacks too, not the futurelec ones. So blue and white it is. I am also starting to work on my case dimensionality. In this image each row is offset by 10degrees. It will have 2 leg stand and a simple frame that the modules sink into. Im not really up for making a big box.
It will sort of resemembe a big iMac, hehe very big. 28" wide and 27" rack high, the stand will probably be about 1.5 feet from the table with two feet. I will also have 2 little stands at the back for my psus/transformers and reverb tanks. :)

Summer is going to be fun

case update

Some additions and revisions
I removed a few modules that i was going to add as i really need to focus on my backlog modules instead of adding more. So i removed the miniwave and a few others. The only thing now which i will buy to put in this rack is the bridechamber analog computer which is just a couple of CGS logic boards.

Designs Added:
Tellun Doomsday Machine (Mega Modulation Waveshaper w/ lfo outs)
Analog Computer (cgs clock / comperator / logic)
Submini 5672 Tube VCA and VCF
Dual Diode vcfs (yusynth ems and cgs steiner)
tau phaser (really like my design for this one)

Designs Revised:
Tellun Neural Agonizer (re-shaped)
Quad Buchla LPGs (changed total layout, now a lot more even)
Dual CGS VCO (added syncs for waveshape and also change pot orientation)

Still to be added:
Digisound 80-13: In/Out Amp and Envelope Follower
dual MFOS adsrs w/ vactrol vc mod

case design

well now i have a few layouts sorted i am trying to work out what size case is best.
originally i was going to go 3U high and 22 U wide but it is getting too unreasonable to move
so i think i will go for 3U high and 16U wide. this means that i will probably have 2 of these cases hehe, i cant believe im going to build a modular this big. i cant believe im already planning on a modular this big, and my current setup is far from functional. funny how these things quickly get out of hand.

these are the modules i plan to fit into my first case. all up in my first 48U case i have:
Klee SEQ (7u)
matrix mixer (3u)
quad low pass gate (3u)
tellun neural agonizer (3u)
dual cgs vco w. waveshape (5u)
cgs utility lfo (2u)
dual wogglebug w/ cgs ring modem (4u)
quad function generator (3u)
cgs wave multipier (2u)
thomas henry mankato vcf / quadrature vco (2u)
midiCV/digisound IO w/ envelope follower (2u)
Jurgen Haible tau phaser (2u)
wiard/blacet miniwave (2u)
yusynth ems vcf (2u)
cgs synthacon vcf + arp 4072 vcf (2u)
dual mfos adsr w/ vactrol vc mod (2u)
and as many vcas that i can fit into the remaining 2u space



the scarey thing is i have so many more projects to build

i am not going to put my modules in a box. i think i have decided just building a self-standing rack that i can just drop them into. i have some sketches, ill try work on them a bit once i get some time and post em.