These are professionally machined 3.5" x 8.75" aluminum panels for your synth modules. Panels
accomodate 8 potentiometers, 4 switches, 4 LEDs, and 12 1/4" Phone Jacks.
The brackets are also professionally machined with 3/8" slots to accomodate a
wide variety of PC boards and have two 11/64" holes for PCB mounting.
I recommend using nylon stand-offs between the brackets and the PC board to avoid
shorting any traces to ground.
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Tired of trying to find a nice piece of aluminum for your synth front panel.
These panels are professionally machined and ready for your ideas. They are
1/16" thick bare aluminum with holes machined as shown in the drawings below.
The L-Brackets for mounting a PC board are 1/32" zinc-plated mild steel with
a 3/8" slot designed to be mounted along with a pot or jack. The next time you spend
hours in your drafty garage with your drills and shears and knicks and cuts and
perhaps don't get the results you hoped for remember this page.
These prices are a good value when you consider quality, materials, your time, and regrettably
those band-aids and first-aid cream.
Purchase Universal Panels online! Click the Add To Cart button to
make a purchase or go to PayPal
to sign up for a PayPal account. You can also set the number of panels you
would like to buy on the PayPal shopping cart page.
Please note that you are buying 1/16" thick non-finished bare aluminum plates
with holes professionally machined into them and L-brackets
as specified in the mechanical drawings below.
If you want the panel to have knob legends and so forth
you will need to make a laminated paper overlay and then glue it to the
panel and cut holes in the ovelay corresponding to the holes in the panel you
intend to use for your module.
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Universal Synth Module Front Panel (8.75" x 3.5") & 2 'L' Brackets
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Buy the Two, Three, or Four Pack for $$$$ discounts.
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One Pack (1 Universal Front Panel and 2 'L' Brackets) $30.00
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Two Pack (2 Universal Front Panels and 4 'L' Brackets) $55.00
($5.00 Discount)
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Three Pack (3 Universal Front Panels and 6 'L' Brackets) $80.00
($10.00 Discount)
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Four Pack (4 Universal Front Panels and 8 'L' Brackets) $100.00
($20.00 Discount)
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Universal Synth Module Front Panel (8.75" x 3.5") & 4 'L' Brackets
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Buy the Two, Three, or Four Pack for $$$$ discounts
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One Pack (1 Universal Front Panel and 4 'L' Brackets) $40.00
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Two Pack (2 Universal Front Panels and 8 'L' Brackets) $75.00
($5.00 Discount)
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Three Pack (3 Universal Front Panels and 12 'L' Brackets) $110.00
($10.00 Discount)
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Four Pack (4 Universal Front Panels and 16 'L' Brackets) $140.00
($20.00 Discount)
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Panel Overlay PDFs
Panel overlays for many MFOS modular PC boards.
You can print and laminate these and then align them on the panel and cut out the appropriate holes.
Read all of the directions ahead of time so you don't have to smack your forhead and say "darn I wish I would have read
all of the instructions ahead of time!"
The PDFs on the site are vector based and "should" print in the correct size for the plates.
I do this when making front panels using the universal panels.
- Print the label on the paper color of your choice with a laser printer.
- Laminate the paper you printed the panel on with a laminating machine.
(Office Depot type heat laminator and 3 mil heat applied laminating material).
- Cut it out (just the rectangle not the holes yet).
- Spray the front side of the aluminum panel and the back of the laminated printout with Scotch brand spray adhesive
(do this over paper and be careful of the overspray... sticky stuff).
- Very "carefully" apply the laminated label to the metal lining up the laminated label
rectangle to the aluminim panel rectangle. The holes should be aligned correctly if your printer
printed at the correct size.
- Burnish the label by putting a plain piece of plain paper over the panel and rubbing it with another piece
of crumpled up piece of paper to make sure it adheres nicely.
- Let it dry for the time recommended on the Scotch spray glue label.
- Cut out the holes in the layout and voila a nicely labeled panel.
If you make a mistake you can scrape the label off and clean the aluminum with laquer thinner (to get the spray glue off) and then try again.
Dual MFOS ADSR
Dual MFOS Noise Cornucopia
Dual MFOS Sample And Hold
Quad MFOS VCA
MFOS VCF State Variable (12dB/Oct)
MFOS VCF 4 Pole Low Pass (24dB/Oct)
MFOS Voltage Controlled Low Frequency Oscillator
MFOS Voltage Controlled Oscillator
Universal Synth Module Front Panels & Brackets Mechanical Drawing PDF
Universal Synth Module Front Panels & Brackets Mechanical Drawing PDF
Universal Synth Module Front Panels & Brackets accepts Large and Small format pots. Larger Pic
The 3/8" holes work with normal sized pots and with small sized pots as well as with 1/4"
jacks. The nut and washer supplied with the small pot is required. The smaller pots
will need to be centered and then tightened but the fit is good and secure.
The mounting holes in the corners accept #4 sheet metal screws. The holes toward the
center are 1/4" (good for mini toggles) and 2/10" (good for LEDs).
Universal Synth Module Front Panels & Brackets accepts several components. Larger Pic
The panel is designed to have four sets of 2 pots, 1 switch, and 1 LED and 12 jacks. Some can be used
and others covered by the laminated overlay that you create. Of course you can use the Universal Panel
however you like.
Universal Synth Module Front Panels & Brackets panel template. Panel Template PDF
Use the PDF of the panel template to help you lay out panel overlays for the Universal Panel.
