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abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:40 pm

Hardware synths/noise makers-How To?: Books? Sites? PDFs, YouTube tutorials?

What kind of electronics knowledge, is needed?

Thanks very much

Shy · Post by **Shy** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 2:05 am

If you mean synth usage tutorials, there are many, but I think Roland's "A Foundation for Electronic Music" and "Practical Synthesis for Electronic Music" are especially nice, despite some overgeneralized and silly stuff. Download (by Analog Industries).

You can find a lot of technical / electronics info on the electro-music.com forum.

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 8:28 am

Shy wrote:If you mean synth usage tutorials, there are many, but I think Roland's "A Foundation for Electronic Music" and "Practical Synthesis for Electronic Music" are especially nice, despite some overgeneralized and silly stuff. [url=http://www.smg.org/stuff/The_Synthesizer.zip]Download[/url] (by [url=http://www.analogindustries.com/b1764/]Analog Industries[/url]).

You can find a lot of technical / electronics info on the [url=http://electro-music.com/forum/]electro-music.com forum[/url].

Thanks. That should be helpful too. But I mean, building hardware synths. sorry, bad thread title.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 10:44 am

abstractcats wrote:Hardware synths/noise makers-How To?: Books? Sites? PDFs, YouTube tutorials?

What kind of electronics knowledge, is needed?

Thanks very much

Muffwiggler's forum DIY section
Electro-music forum's DIY section
Music From Outer Space (MFOS) website
Catgirl Synths website
http://www.sdiy.info/w/Main_Page

Books

Handmade Electronic Music : Nic Collins (expanded on lecture notes found as PDF here : http://www.nicolascollins.com/texts/ori ... manual.pdf)
Make : Analog Synthesisers (by Ray Wilson of MFOS)
various books by Thomas Henry

plus other stuff on this list:

http://www.sdiy.info/w/Books

the 'daddy' of resources : 40 years of synth design notes

http://electronotes.netfirms.com/

As for electronics : following Nic Collins book gives a good starting point for basic skills. Simpler kits might also be a good start (eg guitar pedal or Atari Punk Console type stuff); ideally they only really require the ability to solder.
Platt's Make : Electronics seems a decent enough theory/practical book on electronics.

mztk · Post by **mztk** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 6:31 pm

Yusynth site was very good when i last visited. he's th guy who did the
analogue section of micro/minibrute. loads of schems and pcb layouts.

if you can get hold of the EFM documentation, there's a lot there too,
precedes Yusynth, so the first is probably a good perspective.

http://yusynth.net/index_en.php

oh he seems to have taken down his yusynth stuff, unlss you can dig it
up there. more links though.

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 6:59 pm

There's a DIY forum here that should give you more info.

Building Hardware synths/noise makers: Books? Sites? PDFs, YouTube tutorials?