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The second one was "mushroomized" from the original.

I've just acquired a bizarre desire for some of those "magic mushroom" air fresheners that were popular in the 1980s. Apparently there's a company in London (UK) that will sell them (see http://www.waterhousedirect.com/ and search for "mushroom"). Is there anyone here who is in London who can help me? Oh, and just for fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfGsjGHSKww

I like the idea of modifying an existing case using body-filler (called "Bondo" in the US).

I like the bench power supply: quick and simple. I think I'll make one of those Real Soon Now. I think I'd add some amp meters.

I just now saw this: then I thought of the midified Christmas lights from a year or two ago and thought that with Midibox, one could possibly do much better. Consider building animatronic heads and use DOUT lines to control the servos. Exactly how you'd map the movements of a head and face to a keyboard or other gizmos I leave as an exercise.

On the cctalk mailing list, someone posted an URL to a page discussing dead or damaged SIDs being repainted to look like new old-stock. See http://kevtris.org/Projects/sid/remarked_sids.html. Caveat Emptor.

This means I should expect mine on Thursday or so.

Um.. you mean Jsynthlib?

I'd like to see if it's possible to have the soldermask be two or more colors swirled together.

Rather than bending the sides, why not simply use L-brackets? Yeah, you'll need more nuts and bolts, but it'll be simpler to fabricate.

I'd love to see exactly what to do to create a chassis like this. I'd like to do something like that for my fatman reimagining project.

About the "connected to one MIDI port" thing. Suppose I have an MBFM whos PIC ID is 0x00. Then I have an MBSEQ also with a PIC ID of 0x00 plugged into the MBFM's OUT port. Is this permitted? Or does the restriction apply only to devices that have multiple cores inside them?

I don't know about the Waldorf Pulse, but I've found that http://www.sescom.com/ and http://www.par-metal.com/ are decent sources of rack chassis. See also http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=10255.msg77307

I got a reply from Scott Lee of Paia and this is what he had to say: I've also been told by other midiboxers that Par-Metal at http://www.par-metal.com/ is also an excellent source of rackmount cases. This change may be for the better because Paia's chassis required a lot of fiddling around to get a passable result. In particular, they cannot be supported only by the rack handles. You need to drill the front panel at one or two points in the bottom middle to provide rigidity.

Unfortunately those are racks, not rackmount project boxes.

I was on the Paia website at http://www.paia.com/ intending to order some rack chassis for some MBFM tinkering when I found that they don't seem to be selling them anymore. >:( If you go here: http://www.paia.com/products.asp?cat=24, you're told that nothing is in that category. Rackmount cases I find from other manufacturers are serious overkill and much more expensive than the ones Paia offered. True, you have to mark and drill these yourself, but DIY is the essence of what Paia's stuff has been for all these years. I'm sure that there are some people who have used Paia rack chassis before. Can you think of an alternative source for them?

Erm... I don't know how I managed to miss that. ???

J70 puzzles me because it doesn't appear to be connected to any other sids besides the pair on Core1. Go ahead, check it.

That's the idea. I'm thinking of scooting the LCD up a bit, then the buttons below the LCD a bit closer, then move the rotary encoders below them. The master rotary stays where it is now. The blue buttons on the far left would get put into a 2x2 square. The matrix might be okay where it is. I prefer this rackmounted because this sort of synth isn't really the kind you frob knobs on while playing. I love doing that with analogues. A big problem I've found is where to get decent rackmount chassis at decent prices. I've been experimenting with the rackmount chassis that Paia sells. They're good and sturdy, but they're not ready to take front panels. If you don't plan out things well in advance, you'll make a mess. I eventually had good results when putting one on my Fatman. My attempt a year or so ago to build one for an MBFM yielded something resembling poo. I'll order a new one or two sometime soon. I'll also make sure to go to the bolt shop BEFORE I start cutting or drilling. You can only get so far with bolting extruded aluminum angles to everything. If I plan this right, all I'll need will be small L-brackets to mate with the front panel. I don't think it would be a good idea to use JB Weld here.

This new group buy makes me think, "okay, now how about MBFM front panels?". Personally, I want a FPE-style engraved one precisely like TK's. However, it seems that this design wastes a lot of space. Let's try to come up with a 1U front MBFM front panel that includes all the functionality of TK's.

I can imagine the Boston police department going into caniption fits over it.

Something just occurred to me. Shouldn't there be a transistor guarding the audio output of this board? Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but it's cheap insurance.

Interesting. It looks like this foil design is especially friendly to home CNC fabbing.

Hmm... Anyone know if this thing is available in the US or from a website written in English?

It looks like a telephone switchboard. What are your plans for it?