Marsynth has announced that its Work Shop Board A ‘diy-oriented’ synth is now available
The “Work Shop Board A” is a quad square-wave oscillator board that is completely self contained on a single PCB.
Although simple in design and assembly, the WSB-A’s voicing architecture offers a network of ring modulators and frequency synchronizations that interconnect the four oscillators in ‘a web of glorious noise’. The addition of a dedicated photocell for each oscillator’s pitch expands the range of the synth.
The WSB-A will be available as both a kit and as a fully assembled unit. The initial run is of assembled units for $60.
Here’s an audio demo:
See the Marsynth site for details.
I assume these sorts of synths are mostly for creating samples? At least that’s the way I’d use it. Though it would be tempting to make noise.
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where is the midi jack?
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A few of these linked up would make an awesome drone.
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i applaud the effort, but a noisy synth isn’t exactly hard to make, why not work on making a 60 dollar synth that sounds like a 2000 dollar one, that would be much more useful,
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well, you can’t. That’s why they cost 2000 dollars. Timers and CMOS chips are not stable enough to create decent non-noise synth, and they put out only square waves as default. Also, this terrible noise is appealing to some, including me.
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here is a free eurorack faceplate for this
http://www.modulargrid.net/e/other-unknown-fsk1138-diy-marsynth-wsb-a
cheers
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