Won't buy one either. I have some kits in the pipeline and for me
half the fun is designing my own frontplates with Schaeffer
Apparatebau's software. Ilanode

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Bakis Sirros
<synth_freak_2000@y...> wrote:

> hi florian,
> also,i would not buy any blank frontpanel!if i did ,i
> would make a diy module that would look ,not like an
> "electronic garden",but more like an electronic
> shithouse...:-)
> bakis.
>
>
> --- Florian Anwander <Florian.Anwander@c...>
> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > > What do people think of the blank panel idea
> > Doepfer already offers Blankpanels with the whole
> > for the screws
> > (A100B1/2/4/8), but without wholes for jacks or
> > pots. I would always use
> > those for selfmade modules, since the position of
> > switches, pots and jacks
> > will always depend on my circuit layout. Due to the
> > fact I use breadboard
> > pcbs I cannot place always a pot or jack to where
> > the frontplate would urge
> > me.
> >
> > For my usage there are also two other arguments
> > against the
> > 5jack5pots-idea:
> >
> > I create modules, that offer several jacks for one
> > output or a feedthrujack
> > for each input, so I do not need 5 pots, but e.g. 3
> > jacks in one horizontal
> > line at the bottom of the frontplate for the output.
> >
> > Also the most easy (!) diy projects should be
> > digital modules, that do
> > require only a few pots but a lot of jacks.
> >
> >
> > And last but not least:
> >
> > People who are able to solder an electronic circuit
> > and add the pcb to the
> > frontplate mechanically should be able to drill a
> > whole in the frontplate -
> > it is not that complicated.
> >
> >
> >
> > So I would not buy one.
> >
> > Florian
> > --
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> >
>
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