Yes welcome, @zorch. Make sure to drop by the Who, Where, What. the community thread too!
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Hi zorch , welcome . lots of entry level here . and many gracious people who help us .
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Hello.
Im me.
I have some things in here https://youtu.be/9tTiM9ONM0A
Im quite noob at electric stuff, cause i always forgot every simple guides and schemas right away. Like witch way led should be contacted on… But its good that everything can be found from the internet.
I have no much money and no much time to do things, so i work on things by night, and thats why they arent always working…
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welcome here @WeaPea 
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Hi , WeaPea . yeah my stuff doesn’t work much either , but we can keep working on it little by little .
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Hi there,
I’m Alex and new to the LMNC community (which seems to be so nice, friendly and helpful! ). In the past few years, I have built quite a number of guitar-, bass-, and studio-related gear. Mainly valve stuff. Got bored a bit, hence took a look into the synth stuff - very interesting! However, I am very new to this field, hence I hope to learn a lot in the next few weeks and months. I have already ordered quite some parts for my first modules, most of them based on the LMNC stuff. So excited!!!
Best wishes
Alex
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Hello all,
My name is Thijs, 31yo, living in The Netherlands with my wife and little boy.
I started out electronics because I needed to get better for my job as a science instructor at a middle school. I soon found it a new hobby. My primary goal was to learn electronics, but to reach that, I wanted to build an analoge synth. That was 7 years ago now.
In those 7 years, I did a lot of self study, watching youtube, planning, thinking and dreaming. But no building. Until a couple of weeks back, I just started building my synth in progress. It is the only way to really make progress.
So far, I worked on a case, power supply, midi to CV, and an oscillator. All work in progress.
I’m building in my own form factor. I found KOSMO a little too big (there is a reason why it is in capital letters 
), and eurorack a little too small. So I decided on 16 cm high modules, Multi voltage rail power (+15, +12, +5, 0, -12, -15, and some pins unused to expand later), but with eurorack compatible outputs.
I already asked and answered a couple of questions on the LMNC patreon page, but recently decided it would be pretty usefull to register here.
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Thijs,
Welcome to this community. I’ll be interested to see where your format goes.
-Fumu / Esopus
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Hey,
my name is Jonas, I’m 31 years old and from Rostock, Germany. I’m a school teacher for physics, astronomy and philosophy and teach up to A-Levels / Abitur.
During my time at the university I learned to understand all the electric components, but we never learned about how a lot of this parts act together and teaching physics at school is similar. Pupils learn about resistors, lamps, leds, but nothing that is really exciting. So last year I had a electronics lab for a day at school and they build simple line detecting vehicles with my pupils and this got me thinking what I can do to teach them something cool, and simple and that makes noise.
During the covid-19 school break I learned more about synthesizers and found out about this site and started to build the first ones myself, an AtariPunkConsole and since yesterday I’m building the Simplest oscillator (the 100k Resistor is driving me nuts --> Problem solved!!!).
Basically my personal goal for this year is building a couple of those Simplest Oscillators, a Quad 4093 Oscillator, a 8 step baby sequencer and maybe some other stuff.
My goal for school is: Figuring out what I can teach students, starting from the age of 12/13 up to their final exams.
I hope a lot of you guys can help and inspire me and in the end make a brighter generation of pupils who simply love electronics
Cheers
Jonas
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Hey! Welcome. I’m up in the mountains not too far from Denver. Casper electronics have been a recent obsession lately. I have a couple of his desktop synths. Once I get my Kosmo up and running, will def be looking into those modules.
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welcome I teach Physics at jr college and Phd Programs , science is so darn cool
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Hi everyone,
I’m Matt. I’m an appreciator of anything that can create electronic music. I’ve been a hobbyist music producer since the mid 90s, but thanks to a lack of self-marketing skills have only had a small amount of recognition.
Project-wise I release my music under the name Matt Aquila, which used to be The Aquila (and even just Aquila). I like to experiment with most electronic genres such as DnB, House, Trance, Synthwave, Breakbeat etc. I’m still new to the forum and Patreon so I won’t spam any links right now but my last major project was mixing and engineering a recent album for Mr Weebl’s band Savlonic.
I thought I’d drop by, and see if there’s other like-minded people of the musical aspect of Sam’s creativity
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welcome here !!!..
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Hey all
I’m currently starting from scratch on a full DIY modular synth build, been reading posts on LMNC, Muffwiggler and various facebook groups for a few months and made some reasonable progress in my build, although as of yet nothing has been powered up and beeped, nor booped.
I’m not actually full Kosmo, I started with a 150mm panel height, which I am kinda regretting now when it comes to laying out the potentiometers etc, but its all good.
I’m not a musician, and I don’t expect to every be one, regardless of how synth turns out. I just love the build process and electronics in general so if i can make an elaborate machine to make noises with, and maybe my son can make music with it, I’ll be more than happy.
I always thought this kind of thing was way out of my skill set, well, maybe it still is but seeing Sam’s energy and the way he breaks things down into a format I can almost understand gave me the inspiration to not be afraid to try it.
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Hi, Kelaifu . welcome to Kosmo world . my situation sounds similar , not much of a musician but have had fun building stuff and I am still trying to make it all work .
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I am not overly musical, but have learned and improved so many skills in 6 months that I am amazed with myself and have a new found interest.
I am not sure if there has been a massive increase in Sams following over the last 6 months but it feels that way, as people try to find something to do in these awkward times.
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Hello everyone,
I am French (sorry if my English is a bit sketchy…), and have been interested in electronic music production as a hobby for about 10 years now. I produce on DAWs but i quickly figured that the creative process was more appealing to me than the finished product (the music). Dont get me wrong: i love music, specially nice chords and harmonies, but what i like even more is diving into these synths to get some nice bleeps and bloops 
Thats how i slowly became really interested into the modular world and, Being a bit of a handyman discovering Sam’s channel was really really nice. I really like this guy’s mindset, and he makes me want to diy so badly haha. While I dont know much about electronics, i know how to follow a recipy and this is how i built my first module : the tuner vco, easy recipy, working like a charm.
Now i want more! and with your help, if you are ok with helping a newbie like myself, i want to build a full modular setup. What i am most affraid of is the 8 step sequencer witch i really wanna build but i fear that i need more knowledge, we will see…
I ve been scrolling thru this forum since last month and i am pleased to see a nice community, so nice to meet you guys, looking forWard to build with you!!
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Hi Claquoss,
I just built a modified version of the 8 step sequencer. It took a while and was something of a challenge to build, but not because it required any particular knowledge beyond how to solder stuff. Just that there was a lot to solder, and a lot of figuring out how to get wires connecting point A to point B in an efficient way without interfering with anything else. The original version is simpler than mine although I think there are some errors in the way it’s shown — the way the regulator connects to the Arduino and the relative placement of the pull down resistors and diodes on the input jacks — but those are covered in the 8-Step Arduino Sequencer topic.
You can go even simpler by building a Baby 8 sequencer. It’ll have less functionality than the LMNC 8 step but would be less complicated to build.
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If you can build a working Tuner VCO then the 8 Step is very easy as it’s 8 lots of the same very simple circuit.
welcome to the forum.
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Nice yeah i read the topic and saw your build : really really nice. Maybe i will try to go for it if the build is not much harder than the original ? Anyway i am less affraid about this build reading you now !
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