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paradigm x wrote:Nice

Ive finished a phaser - http://www.oakleysound.com/deep.htm

And various bits towards a modular, and a distortion box. Kind of kept off the DIY for a while, actually been doing music!

I actually sold the Shruthi that started this whole thread off, then fucking royal mail broke it on route to buyer, then broke it even more on way back, then refused compensation as i couldnt prove value because its DIY! fuckers!

So ive got to fix that. Thinking of doing some mods and putting it in a cool old 70s tape deck i found at the tip...

paradigm x wrote:I love the oakley stuff, sounds great, easy to build, great documents and no rare/expensive parts.

I did build a filtrex yeah, its great. samples in here somewhere.

Ive not finished any oakly stuff, half done the adsr, PSU and COTA filter, finished up some other non oakley stuff (youll have to google); fonik X4046 VCO, sympleseqs, sequential switches, PS3100 triple resonaotrs, etc, other stuff. Still not got enough to actually make a synth tho yet loads of nearly finished, or 'useless until other things finished' stuff.

Soon will have a badass modular...

The cost is hard to predict, you end up buying millions of parts, which sit around, then more, id say filtrex was about £150-180 all in, case and pots being the most expensive.

electro-music.com wrote:
emSynth: the electro-music synthesizer is a compact miniature modular synthesizer system designed for anyone with an interest in low cost modular synthesizers. Here you will find affordable modules that plug into a breadboard or custom wiring harness in an enclosure. You can build entire musical systems using emSynth modules alone, or you can mix them with your own custom designs on the breadboard itself. With emSynth the sounds you can create are unlimited!

Traditional modular synthesizers are large, wall-sized investments in sound. They are composed of racks containing modules that cost $300 or more each. emSynth replaces these racks with breadboards holding tiny modules that cost about $15 each. This is made possible by several choices including open electronics and breadboard connectorization, plus the advancements in electronics miniaturization in the past 40 years. Of course, the circuits are simplified - and many are digital as well, adding to the unique quality of emSynth's sounds. You can build an emSynthesizer and reconfigure it at will for under 1/20th the cost of traditional big iron synthesizers. With that you get portability and flexibility also.

emSynth essentially creates a new form factor in the world of modular synthesizers: the breadboard! The history of emSynth goes back to the 1970's when a man named Stanley Lunetta pioneered the use of tiny digital chips called CMOS (pronounced sea-moss) in creating music. Stan made beautiful copper art sculptures out of CMOS chips that blinked and buzzed and whirred with elegant complexity. Fast forward to today and a crowd of modern enthusiasts are carrying on Stan's work and adding to it on a daily basis. Much of the activity is discussed on the electro-music forum named after Stan, the Lunetta forum. The emSynth circuits are derived from this ongoing category of music system exploration. We are just beginning to scrape the surface of what is sure to be a wealth of discovery as time unfolds before us. For now, some of us Lunetta designers have gotten together to bring you a small yet rapidly growing collection of miniature music modules that are collectively known as emSynth.