synthdiy
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An early recording of drum machine + synthdiy
toobnix.org Early recording w/ drum machineMy first recording that I felt was maybe worth sharing. Instruments: Alesis SR-18 Division 6 Business Card Sequencer Thomas Henry LM-VCO HexInverter Mutant Brain AI Synthesis Stereo Matrix Mixer
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DIY Synth - 10hp left?
Have built a Thomas Henry LM-VCO and in the middle of building an Eddy Bergman / YuSynth ADSR and a VCA. Hooked up to an AI Synthesis Stereo Matrix Mixer and Hexinverter Mutant Brain with an Alesis QX-49 keyboard and SR-18 drum machine.
What should I do with the last 10hp of my case?
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The Making of LinnStrument
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Electronic music design legend Roger Linn talks about the process from scrappy DIY prototypes to commercial production of his 3-axis touch sensitive MIDI controller.
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Mac-Salad eurorack multi-utility module schematic
wandering.shop jpyng (@[email protected])Oh hey I started a public repo for this and uploaded the schematics https://github.com/jepyang/Mac-Salad #SynthDIY #eurorack
jepyang just posted these schematics ( https://github.com/jepyang/Mac-Salad ) - it's a neat looking combo of utilities with some interesting normalization. A vactol crossfader/panner, envelope follower, wave folder thing, rectifier, AND+OR analog logic, a slew type thing, some VCAs.
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Porting Synth_Dexed to Raspberry Pi Pico
mastodon.social diyelectromusic (@[email protected])I've just put up the second part of my messing around with #PicoDexed - a build of Synth_Dexed for the Raspberry Pi Pico. Summary: It is still only good for 5-note polyphony, but I'm starting to understand why and what I'd have to do about it. I'm still deciding if I want to... All the gory detai...
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A new Teensy 4.x Ornament and Crime is coming.
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.. and new prototype hardware with 8 inputs and 8 outputs !
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MIDI over CAN bus for modular synthesisers
hackaday.io Modular MIDIModular MIDI (M2IDI) is a prototype for a bus connection to distribute MIDI messages in modular systems like eurorack.
A project looking to use MIDI (2.0 !) over CAN bus within a modular system. Appears to be a nice foundation with some hardware and software designs - will be interesting to see if this goes anywhere.
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The First Synthesizer - Published By Ray Wilson - 20 Years Before His Well Known Ones!
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Synth Power Filtering: To Bead or Not To Bead ?
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(and the referenced North Coast article: https://northcoastsynthesis.com/news/the-truth-about-ferrite-beads-will-shock-you/ )
I've noticed that Befaco in particular uses ferrite beads in a lots of digital Eurorack modules, and I've always wondered if they had a good reason or if it was just superstition. I'd love to hear the experience of a module manufacturer on this issue ... something along the lines of "we added the ferrite beads since it failed FCC EMC compliance without them".
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Building A Whole Analog Synthesizer voice From Start To Finish On Breadboard
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Maestro complete schematics
Maestro was a synth made in USSR that was designed by Vladimir Kuzmin of Polivoks fame. Maestro takes after Polivoks but adds digitally controlled oscillators and 4-voice polyphony. I learned a few things from studying its circuits.
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Music From Outer Space
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/33331
> This one is Ray Wilson's DIY synthesizer website. > > I first saw him on youtube, screwing around with an echo rockit noise box. I was hypnotized. > > I found his site and was hooked. I spent the next couple years making synthesizer modules at a manic pace. > > The magical thing about Ray's site is is his teaching style. He gives the circuit schematics, but also explanations of how/why they work in language that is pretty easy to understand. He really approaches electronics from a practical standpoint rather than what you'd get in an intro class somewhere. This website was my introduction to electronics, and it can get you far when it comes to understanding analog design and signal processing. > > You can really get a feel for Ray's personality from his writing on the site. He died in 2016, and I weirdly get a little choked up when I look at that echo rockit page. His website was a right-time-right-place thing for me, and it helped change the trajectory of my life in a very real way. > > Anyways. Check out Music From Outer Space, and like Ray would say, > Good learning...
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I made a 3D printable vactrol capsule
www.thingiverse.com Vactrol Capsule by rmdashrfNOTE: After some testing, it turns out this design as printed in black PLA isn't perfectly light-proof. Other more opaque filaments (eg white) may be better - testing is ongoing. This is a simple capsule for making DIY "vactrols" - an LED paired with an light dependent resistor (LDR). The default va...
I've made vactrols in various ways in the past - black electrical tape, heat shrink, other 3D printed enclosures. This is my latest attempt, to use with an NLC Dispersion Delay build (the design is directly inspired by the vactrols seen in photos in the NLC build docs). I like to sand off the end of the LED so it's flat and superglue it to the LDR, but I'm not sure this is really necessary.
There are other 3D printed vactrol enclosures out there (I've tried one or two), but most are bulker than this design, and this one comes with the OpenSCAD source so you can tweak the tolerances as required for your printer and parts.
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synthdiy podcasts ?
Can anyone recommend some good #synthdiy podcasts, especially with interviews or discussions with makers ? I stumbled upon the MakerChat SynthDIY podcast recently and enjoyed this laidback chat with Benjie Jiao, now I'm wondering if there's some niche gems out there I've not discovered.