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#1

I thought it would be a good idea to post the DIY/OS repositories (hardware and software) I know that contain designs of anything DIY and Open Source one can imagine that would be interesting to add to one’s synthesizer or modular.

Let’s start with

LMNC

and obviously there is Muff Wiggler and

YuSynth

and Rene Schmitz’s Synths’R’Us

But there may be more less known repositories like: www.ozoe.fr which contains a lot of interesting and well documented designs. For modular have a look here: modular stuff @ www.ozoe.fr
You can use the chrome browser to translate the pages for you if your French is a bit rusty.

Do you know any not in this list?

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KOSMO Setup pics
Links to DIY builders
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#3

This is my github


There’s a lot of half- or quarter- or tenth-baked ideas represented there but also forks of some of the Mutable Instruments stuff in KiCad-importable form, and the MFOS-SVF is built and known to be working.

(The original Mutable Instruments site is


)

Also this:

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#4

@dud (of music share fame) has schematics for most (all?) modules in his modular build here:

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#5

Kristian Blåsol’s “modular in a week” project has schematics & build videos for the various modules he’s been exploring:

(don’t miss the “and here is my modular” reveal at 0:45 in the project intro video).

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#6

Ken Stone’s stuff:
http://www.synthpanel.com/

Synth DIY wiki:

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#7

‘Modular in a Week’: how could I forget this one? I watched quite a few of his videos.

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#8

http://musicfromouterspace.com/ lots of good info and inspiration here .

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#9

hello Fredrik, yes ! go here : https://soundbender36.wordpress.com/sommaire-synthetiseur-modulaire-diy/
and you have all my modules list, clic on each for details with schematics or link
bye

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#10

Oh duh, how could I forget, I just built an MFOS module!

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#11

Niklas Ronnberg : http://familjenronnberg.se/~niklas/diy.php

Synthesis : https://aisynthesis.com/build/

Dintree : http://dintree.com/#D107

Fonik : http://modular.fonik.de/Page18.html

Forum Electro music (part DIY) : http://electro-music.com/forum/forum-112.html

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#12

duskwork’s stripboards of LMNC designs: https://duskwork.net/index.html

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#13

I don’t know why I never got around to posting this link to CTAG. This is an open hardware project mostly based on the inexpensive, hugely powerful ESP32 platform. There are two open source hardware projects here.

Strämpler (the word is a portmanteau of the German words for streamer and sampler) is just about the last word in online sampling modules in Eurorack format.

TBD (literally To Be Determined) is a simple platform for hobbyists interested in processing audio in Eurorack format.

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#14

I stumbled upon Roman Sowa’s DIY repository:

https://www.midi-hardware.com/index.php?section=diy

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#15

Guitar pedals - as @Dud suggested you can adapt them into rack modules when DIY, but remember to use this module before - AI006 Stomp Adapter Schematic Help
http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/how-to-build-it/technical-help/schematics/
https://www.diystompboxes.com/pedals/schematics.html

And my link collection that is still growing and overwhelming:
http://www.yusynth.net/Modular/index_en.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20171111221410/http://www.cgs.synth.net/modules/index.html#cgs03 -
http://www.skullandcircuits.com/resources
http://www.jt30.com/potfix/index.html - pot fixing - if you need logarithmic, but have only linear - not 100% accurate, but still, better than nothing
https://www.nonlinearcircuits.com/wiki/doku.php?id=modules:list
https://web.archive.org/web/20171111221410/http://www.cgs.synth.net/modules/index.html#cgs03 -
https://www.stereoping.com/diy-eurorack/?lang=en - reverb seems to be interesting, but I do not see any schematics : (
http://www.solorb.com/elect/musiccirc/panner/ - Interested project how to make stereo panner, seems to be usefull for drones/ambient music

Based on Arduino:
https://hackaday.io/project/161396/ - FatCat- Gorgeous climate, but setting seems to be complicate - 45min tutorial movie on YT, check guys channel
https://bleeplabs.com/product/bleep-drum-midi/ - Blep Drum
http://familjenronnberg.se/~niklas/diy/eurorack/bleep_drum/ - Version of the Blep Drum
https://hackaday.io/project/164521-drumkid-aleatoric-drum-machine - DrumKid - latest version have MIDI IN and OUT, I will build it using touch keys instead standard buttons - will post the results soon

Circuit bending - use toys/simple devices and make crazy sound of them
https://synthvibrations.wordpress.com/tag/casio-sa/ - Casio SA mods
https://soundbender36.wordpress.com/2017/12/19/casio-sa-38-circuit-bending/ - Modded SA
https://www.papernoise.net/concertodrone/ - Well-documented project, see PDF
https://hackaday.com/tag/circuit-bending - weird projects
http://getlofi.com/category/diy-synth/- weird projects #2
https://www.instructables.com/id/Lo-Fi-Voice-Sampler-Circuit-Bending-/ - 1$ circuit bending module to loop 10s sound

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#17

some strange things :
https://www.gieskes.nl/

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#18

There is a nice video by Hainbach about one of the devices by gieskes:

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#19

excellent !

there some years i had do a thing very simillar, but mega cheap :wink:

but same tremolo, and mini keyboard

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#20

Plum Audio’s Repository