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The usual input device for playing a synthesizer is the good old piano keyboard. However, you don’t have to stick to such pedestrian interfaces when making music. [Daisy] has a …read more Continue reading Building a Simple Ribbon Synth
How it started: a simple repair job on a Roland drum machine. How it ended: a scratch-built FM drum synth module that’s completely analog, and completely cool. [Moritz Klein]’s journey …read more Continue reading Designing an FM Drum Synth from Scratch
If you want to dip your toes into the deep, deep water of synth DIY but don’t know where to start, [Atarity] has just the resource for you. He’s compiled …read more Continue reading 70 DIY Synths on One Webpage
A piece of musical history is the Maplin 4600, a DIY electronic music synthesizer from the 1970s. The design was published in an Australian electronics magazine and sold as a …read more Continue reading Reviving a Maplin 4600 DIY Synthesizer From the 1970s
[Filip] got his hands on a sweet old Hammond X5 organ, but it had one crucial problem: only half of the keys worked. Each and every C#, D, D#, E, …read more Continue reading The Mystery of the Messed-Up Hammond X5
Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we may never know of its existence due to the cacophony of all of the various keytars, …read more Continue reading The Math Behind the Music of the 80s
In this tremendously educational video, [Linus Åkesson] takes us through how he develops a synthesizer and a sequencer and editor for it on the Commodore 64, all in BASIC. While …read more Continue reading Linus Live-Codes Music on the Commodore 64
[Bea Thurman] had a retro music conundrum. She loved the classic Greengate DS:3 sampler, but couldn’t buy one, and couldn’t find enough information to build her own. [Bea’s] plea for help …read more Continue reading Solving a Retrocomputing Mystery with an Album Cover: Greengate DS:3
Although it’s still possible to grab a couple of friends, guitars, and a set of drums and start making analog music like it’s 1992 and there are vacant garages everywhere …read more Continue reading Digital Audio Workstation In A Box
We’re not sure exactly what Tulip is, because it’s so many things all at once. It’s a music-making environment that’s programmable in Python, runs on your big computer or on …read more Continue reading Tulip is a Micropython Synth Workstation, in an ESP32