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Thursday, September 24, 2009

-Ichabod- Construction and Module List


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Photo by Michael Mattson.
"Cabinets:
Ichabod consists of an assembly of 9 separate cabinets interlocked together.

The cabinets were constructed out of 3/8” African Padauk, sanded to 600 grit and oiled with Linseed oil. Paste wax was applied and hand buffed as a sealer and protector. The color was originally as orange as the graphics but, the linseed oil and exposure to UV has darkened the wood to a dazzling deep reddish-orange.

The cabinets are all mitered at the corners and the 13 Ga. steel module mounting frames are embedded into a ¼” deep groove, 1” back from the front edge.

The 4X wide main cabinets (qty=3) contain two Condor power supplies, one for each pair of panels. There are connectors on the back for connecting the satellite cabinets to the main cabinet DC power bus. Four El-Pac external power supplies were supplied for the satellite cabinets if they were to be utilized independently, separate from the main system.

The four satellite cabinets and the two cable caddies are stock MMM cabinets. The cable caddies were modified with an orange electro-luminescent light strip and inverters to light the strips. A reverse light mask with the name “Ichabod” was manufactured and placed over the EL strip.

Modules:
The modules were distributed to provide a left-to-right signal flow per each 2-panel section. The 4X cabinets have two identical left and right layouts and the satellites are identical pairs. A few redundant modules were added to the left and right satellite cabinets in order to provide a fully functioning stand-alone system.

The full Ichabod module list as delivered is as follows:
16 OV1-J VCO’s Jacked version
16 OV1-S VCO’s Switched version
7 NS1 Noise sources (1 per cabinet)
16 EG1 ADSR Envelope generators
16 AV1 VCA’s
16 JPVCF1 VC Filters
14 MX1 4X Mixers
10 DLFO1 Dual LFO’s
8 PE/MIDI 2-wide MIDI controller with V 2.0 software
8 AF1 Amplitude Followers (Envelope Followers)
8 GD1 4X Gate delays
8 BF1 4X buffers/signal distribution
8 VCM1 4X Voltage controlled mixers
5 SH1 Sample and Holds
5 LP1 Lag processors/ Glide
2 UT1 Utility modules/ clock/ divider/ manual voltage source

Coming soon:
2 SQ1 3-wide 8X3 sequencer

Module descriptions can be found on our WIKI site: http://mmm.sevcom.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Or, by going to the main web site http://www.mattsonminimodular.com/ And clicking on the WIKI link."

1 comment:

  1. I know people rip on BC all the time, but I'd say kudos to him for obviously providing some needed capital for Mr. M to speed up his development process.

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