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synth building/circuit bending resources and websites

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:08 am
by deadly_habit
thought maybe we could compile a list of sites/resources for those of us who like building our own gear and circuit bending

for starters
http://www.squidoo.com/buildASynth
http://www.diy-central.com/
http://ucapps.de/
http://www.getlofi.com/

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:36 am
by scooterjack
I've either got the money, or I've got the time... but never both when i need em...

One day i will, and i will build myself some ish that will keep me in the studio for weeks straight at a time -q-

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:41 am
by deadly_habit
ScooterJack wrote:I've either got the money, or I've got the time... but never both when i need em...

One day i will, and i will build myself some ish that will keep me in the studio for weeks straight at a time -q-
tell me about it
then again i have a box full of electronic parts and such for rainy days

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:44 am
by djake
i keep meaning to buy myself a soldering iron got this keyboard and some switches n shit just sat here in my room

need some new batterys aswell casue they ran down :(

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:53 am
by skells
Modular synths
http://www.paia.com/ <---plus diy fx amps
http://www.oakleysound.co.uk/
http://www.synthtech.com/
http://www.wiseguysynth.com/larry/links.htm
http://www.sdiy.org/destrukto/index.html
http://www.fluxmonkey.com/electronoize/ ... llator.htm
http://home.att.net/~synthsource/ens76/vco1.htm
http://yusynth.net/Modular/index.html
http://www.electronicpeasant.com/
http://www.cgs.synth.net/
http://www.emulatorarchive.com/Project_ ... notes.html
http://www.till.com/articles/moog/patents.html
http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/anal ... age=ANALOG
http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs159/index.html
http://www.synthdiy.com/
http://www.timstinchcombe.co.uk/synth/s ... moog_paper
http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~lanterma/ece4803/
http://mypeoplepc.com/members/scottnoan ... index.html
http://home.debitel.net/user/jhaible/hj.html
http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/

Circuit bend blog
http://www.getlofi.com/

Diy synth weird instruments blog
http://www.curiousinventor.com/

Midi osc controller diy hid
http://www.midi-hardware.com/products.html
http://eroktronix.com/
http://stretta.blogspot.com/2008/12/mlr-v.html mlr software for monome with a nice vid showing a monome performance (very prefuse 73)
http://www.lbodnar.dsl.pipex.com/joystick/
http://www.audiomulch.com/midipic/
http://soundwidgets.com/smf/index.php?t ... 573#msg573
stribe hacked to work with midibox
http://pmidic.sourceforge.net/
http://www.phidgets.com/
http://www.8bitventures.com/ midi cartridge for commodore 64
http://tomscarff.110mb.com/products_prices.htm
http://www.ibva.co.uk/ brain wave controller :o
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug06/a ... a_0806.htm puredata article
http://www.musicianstechcentral.com/library.html#diy
http://www.derivativeinc.com/Events/15- ... nMay04.asp richie hawtins controller
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/publication/u ... ed_devices
http://www.makingthings.com/ref/firmwar ... o_s_c.html


Synth diy forum
http://electro-music.com/forum/forum-112.html

Touch screen forum
http://nuigroup.com/

Ableton api have a look through these if you want to see some of the things max for live will do that other software wont be able to do with live
http://www.remix.net/wiki/AbletonLive
http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php? ... 8b7025a79a
http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/cD0bu ... xOabIlDkbG

Visual programmeing pd reaktor
http://www.symbolicsound.com/cgi-bin/bi ... HertzChart chart for syncing delays and lfos to tempo
http://reaktordiary.blogspot.com/
http://www.gersic.com/dspwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Digital_Signal_Processing
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Reaktor
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Reaktor/Tu ... ktor_users
http://www.users.qwest.net/~volt42/cade ... ilters.pdf
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Pd_documentation/index.htm
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/book-html/ Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music
https://www.native-instruments.com/foru ... hp?t=18013


Relating Tuning and Timbre
http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/consemi.html

how to make a walkman distortion box
http://brokenpants.com/?page_id=211

how to make a contact mic
http://brokenpants.com/?page_id=94