Category Synthesizer

Posts about synthesizers and other related electronics

Weston Audio AD110

AD110 Front

I built this as a DIY project. They offer it assembled also. It’s a Eurorack adaptation of the drum sounds from the Boss DR-110. All the sounds are analog, not samples. The project comes as three PCBs and a front…

Serge Resonant EQ

Serge Resonant EQ

This is the last piece of musical gear for the year. It’s a fixed filter bank with 10 filters. 8 of the filters are bandpass filters. The highest and lowest bands are high pass and low pass filters. It’s like…

The worlds largest analog synth

Anyone who has watched my podcast knows I’m a big fan of bandcamp.com. Haven’t watched my podcast? Don’t worry it’s really only watched by a select few. Check out this link on Bandcamp: That said, I ran into this…

Glitchstorm & Bytebeats

Glitchstorm is an Arduino powered byte beat generator. Arduino, if you are not familiar, is an open source hardware programming platform. Rather than surf the web and send email, you can use Arduino to open your garage door, and flash…

Thonk

I have been planning to work on some Eurorack projects. Turns out it’s hard to find the correct jacks, or at least the PCB mount variety. I got a few on Aliexpress to experiment with I’ll talk about these in…

Dusting off the modular synth

Started thinking about synthesizers the other day this prompted me to dust off the old modular synth and get it working again. I was expecting more trouble but in the most if not everything seems to be working. To get…

CGS 29 Wave Multiplier Panel

Some years ago I bought some PCB for various synthesizer modules. I thought I would design some panels and build a few new modules. This is a first draft of a panel for Ken Stone’s Wave Multiplier CGS29. I have…