Weird Sound Generator

Via Ray Wilson, comes a cool Music From Outer Space Weird Sound Generator mod that adds step sequencing. Read more…

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Saturday Synth Porn: Doesn’t this awesome build of Ray Wilson’s Weird Sound Generator make you want to make some noise?

You can find out more about Wilson’s Weird Sound Generator, a DIY synth project, at the Music From Outer Space site.

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This is a synth guitar, built from a second hand First Act mini electric guitar, stripped down, and rebuilt using Ray Wilson’s WSG synth schematics. It’s black, with a metal flake flame paint job.

It features one Wacky/Weird/Zany voice, and without the oddness filter (it can plug into guitar pedals for effects and filters.) Two ribbon controllers on the neck control the wacky and weird oscillator frequencies. Controls where the pickup used to be effect the Zany oscillator, and switches near the neck control the wacky send and range.

This is one of the stranger Weird Sound Generators ever created.

via Kipptumor:

This is how I dealt with Ray Wilson’s Weird Sound Generator kit from musicfromouterspace.com. Ray offers all kinds of cool kits from DIY synth modules to a 16-step analog sequencer. I mounted mine in a Lindberg plastic human skull model kit.

We use the thing in our music by running it into the audio-in jack of the Korg Electribe. It can be tuned a bit at least, otherwise it is simply chaos.

Ray Wilson’s Music From Outer Space Weird Sound Generator is a popular synth DIY project.

Wilson notes:

This is not even a shadow of a real music synthesizer but merely a fun little noise maker.

Building a WSG, while fun, is not a deeply scientific or religious experience. The WSG does not look or work at all like a synthesizer used by anyone whose name rhymes with either Cakeman or Bemerson. The WSG does not have a keyboard, it has a few knobs and switches. Do not expect to use the WSG in concert. The WSG makes mildly entertaining, droning beeps and boops.

It is designed to be built on a solderless breadboard and experimented with or put on a proto-board or PCB and placed into an outlandish case for fun by electronics hobbyists. That, as they say, is the entire enchilada.

Resources:

• WSG at the MOS site
• Matt Stanfield’s Awesome WSG Blog
• Scott Stites’ DIY site
• Dozens of Weird Sound Generators on flickr