The DIY-synth-for-breakfasters amongst you – or the Eurorack modular builders/collectors probably know Thonk already: a UK (Brighton) based company specialised in components and modules for modular / eurorack synths. Within …
This article, created by William Stokes, was published by Musicradar, August 23rd, 2022. Please note that all (c) are with the author and Musicrader. From radioactive synths to sound-generating baby …
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David Goodman, a Synth DIY’er showed some pictures of his DG 2500 Synthbuild project: “Drilling 1496 holes (the number has gone up!) takes a huge amount of time, especially if …
Roundabout – a small patchable synthesizer – developed by Matt Kuebrich – all details can be found here. Tech details: uses jumper wires and pin headers for patching CMOS-based circuitry …
Vincent from Canada created a website with EPROM contents of Vintage synthesizer. For those of you wanting to restore vintage synths this could be a very valuable source. You can …
Helmuth Tünker wrote several books on building organs, sound effects, rhythm machines and synthesizers. The second part of his book ‘Electronic pianos and synthesizers’ is about building a synthesizer with …
Moog launched this new family member recently: next to the Matriarch, Mother-32, Grandmother, Brother from another mother (I guess), there is now the little Mavis brother. It seems to be …
In the Italian Electronics magazine Nuova Elettronica issue 84-85 (1982) the Synthesizer DIY project LX520 was published. This post includes the complete article: scans of the pages of the original …
Another interesting Electronic Music project from ETI (Electronics Today International). In the May 1985 issue this digital Synthesizer Sequencer DIY project was introduced. In the same issue this sequencer was …
Each issue of ETI magazine (Electronics Today International) featured a ‘designers notebook’ article. Sometimes providing interesting design ideas that can be of interest to syntheser / electronic music equipment builders. …