I count 3.
You got me there!
…open the FPD file and change the grid to 0.1" and see how some switches are centered on a grid dot and others are not.
yeees, i’m seeing the light!
I don’t know why you would want to do this anyway, the control surface PCB is cheap and the perfect compliment to the panel (that’s the point!).
Simple, as an exercise to learn more about all the process you went thru; if you didn’t notice, you just paved the road for the rest of us ;), btw. i’ll get one as soon as they are available again either from you or from smashTV for sure.
Can you explain what you would want to do differently? If you’re asking if you could do your own different panel design and use veroboard, then yes, you can do that, and construct it the same way (spacers glued to panel underside) but you would need to include more mounts as veroboard is a lot more flexible than a PCB with less holes and different material (fiberglass?).
One thing I would try to change is the different sections placement, I been tinkering around with the FPD file enough to notice all your effort behind it, and that actually there is a small room to change stuff, if any.
So here comes the compromises, I would take out the led matrix, I can’t see myself using it too much, but then again I’m a beginner about all this stuff and how the mbSID works. A practical way to see this is that l learn a lot, reduce costs on components and panel and hopefully at the end I get a good looking and sounding synth, and also unique. And still get the chance to build your version when it’s available 8)
I would change the LCD to be centered and like half way to the top of the panel and a biiiiig encoder knob next to it.
And finally, my bain tells me to group together the things in the best confortable way for me to use:
OSC controls -> LFO controls
O O O O O -> O O
ENV controls -> Filter controls
O O O O O -> O O
Now, me being left handed probably this figure would get all reversed, something like this:
BigEncoder -> LCD
( ) -> [____]
LFO -> OSC
O O -> O O O O O
Filter -> Env
O O -> O O O O O
weird to look at, I guess!
The encoder’s aren’t mounted directly to the panel (not the current panel design being produced) nor would it make sense to do so, the shafts would stick out far too much.
Yes, I noticed on your photos, I figured out that mounting the encoders directly into the panel may help to avoid glueing standoffs and give the panel more strength, that is if every encoder is soldered to the same piece of vero or at least 1 vero for each row of encoders, am I right?; that’s why it’s important to know if they would fit into the current panel when mounted like this.
Of course I would need to move the drillings as a group to keep the same distances, or measure everything perfect.
And there is my friend the dremel to help those encoders to behave ;D
I’m not left handed. The filter section is on the left because that’s the only way I could fit all the sections on the panel and still maintain 1.1" horizontal spacing between all the knobs in the lower four sections. (This is more important than you would think.)
I guess this is closely related to the PCB traces, right?
The menu encoder to the right of the display, which is also on the top right, is more important (for right handers) ;D
right you are, sir. 
All this came because I will get a panel from FPE (the group buy for the mb808) and may be ordering 1 MB-6582 original and my modified version as well, to save some $ on shipment and customs duty.
(all this DIY stuff easily gets twice as expensive if you don’t live in the States)
Pd. this is very educative for me, thanks a lot… would you mind if I come back with more questions as I go?
Later.