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… Read More Weird Sound Generator
I got word via Kevin in the synth forum that he’s released the PICSynth V3 chip, which features a cool new arpeggiator and portamento. The PICSynth is a easy to build DIY synth project. Here’s an audio demo from the latest PICSynth: [display_podcast] Features: Dual oscillator mono synth Really easy to build using just 1 custom… Read More PICSynth V3 Released
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG59y9x5LiE Tupapupa mapped the functions of the Dave Smith Instruments Evolver onto a Behringer BCF 2000 in order to use the Evolver like a TB-303 – but with more options.
This video captures a synth patch trying to model a plucked string. The setup is MFB Osc-2 into LPG (both mode) into A-188-1 BBD into another LPG (Filter only, to get rid of the BBD clock bleeding through). Pitch of the Osc and Delay clock of the BBD is sequenced by the MAQ16/3. A bit… Read More Analog Karplus Strong Synthesis
Piano glitch studies using the TENORI-ON and various analog filters. Used in this video: TENORI-ON Korg Kaoss Pad 3 Jomox M-Resonator MI Audio Pollyanna Octave Moog Low Pass Filter (MF-103) Space Echo (Boss RE-20) Korg Kaossilator Electro Harmonix Chorus/Vibrato “The Clone Theory” Vestax PMC-05 Pro III via znhsn
The Fridgebuzzz Atari Synth synth has the body of an Atari 400 – but it’s been gutted to make a bizarre synth. The Atari Synth is a polyphonic 12-oscillator, 3 modulator square wave synthesizer controlled by arcade-style pushbuttons and potentiometers. Details here. via Technobob
via Nyle Steiner: An electronic sound composition is made entirely of sounds produced using zinc negetive resistance audio oscillator circuits. No vacuum tubes or transistors were used to generate the sounds. Several tracks of the zinc oscillator sounds were recorded one at a time. Some of the sounds were enhanced with the addition of reverb.… Read More Neil Steiner’s Zinc Negative Resistance Sound Synthesizer
GeLoFi has released version 2 of its Atari Punk Console kit. The kit makes a limited tone generator – but most of the fun of Atari Punk Consoles is the variety of cases people build them into. Description: The Stepped Tone Generator circuit by Forrest M Mims III has been around for ages. Recently the same circuit… Read More Cool New Atari Punk Console 2.0 Kit
In this video, Dana Countryman gives an overview of his very cool DIY Ondes Martenot Ring Controller project: I’m building a Ring Controller, in the style of a vintage Ondes Martenot, to control my modular synthesizer. Here is the first video, showing my progress, so far. I’m controlling a synthesizers.com Q125 Signal Processor, which in turn, is… Read More Dana Countryman’s Ondes Martenot Ring Controller Project
2009 NAMM Show preview for Plan B Synthesizers: Both Plan B and Buchla will be at the Noisebug booth 6108 which is on the main hall this year in the vicinity of Moog and Motu. Sometime this week I will be posting further details on what we’ll be showing on the Plan B Analog Blog… Read More 2009 NAMM Preview: Plan B Modular Synthesizer Updates
