Hi! My name’s Spencer, I’m here looking for a collaboration. If you have built any kind of electro-mechanical or robotic music device thingy, I want to compose music for it.
A bit about me, I work in games development, I have a composition background, and I have built my own musical robots in the past but I don’t have the resources to do so right now. I really want to write some music for someone’s musical robot, so if you have one and are interested in a collaboration, hit me up!
Primus / les claypool sure do have alot of fishing themed songs lol
I love the Floyd and psychedelia age Beatles vibes to this one.
sorry , I understood what you meant and yes it is good to see all kinds of diversity here , it adds a lot to everyone’s life experience . Apparently my joking about the "east coast " , " west coast " thing was taken a bit to seriously , I should know by now that , that stuff doesn’t work will typed on the net. . 
up for fishing and yo-yos .
Hello everyone!
I’ve finally decided to join the forum; been reading it quite some time. As many others, I started with the super simple oscillator popularized by Sam, then got suck into this rabbit hole of DIY modular synths. I’ve started with a simple, single rail +9V powered case, but right now I’m building a dual rail (+/-12V) modular.
I’ve learnt a lot in the past roughly one year but still got a lot more to learn. So I think I’ll have a lot more questions than answers. Hope you don’t mind!
Cheers!
Welcome to you in the forum 
Do not hesitate for the questions, there is often someone to answer them.
And the forum search engine already contains a lot of stuff, when you are looking for something.
yep your not the first of us and probably not the last , welcome aboard .
Great to have you. I’ve learned a lot here, though I don’t contribute often enough. But this community has been extraordinarily welcoming.
Hi everyone, only just saw this thread. I’ve been lurking here for a while and have learned much more than I could ever figure out myself. Thanks for being here! I discovered modular synths/Sam back in November when I was re-reading old issues of Hackspace magazine(hsmag.cc) and the main feature in one was how to build the Arduino keyboard sequencer/3340 VCO. Off to RS Components I went and here I am, 5 months later with an almost working synth voice!
Honestly this is one of the friendliest communities out there - no naysayers or hostility - just folks helping and supporting each other.
I’ll try and give back to the community when I can - thanks again! 
welcome , yeah it is nice nice not to have all the drama . I think we are all to busy trying to get are stuff working and showing off what we did get to work that there isn’t much time for anything else .
greetings, I’m shaawano.
I currently live in NY but will be moving back to MN when it is safe to do so. I am part of The Electrozone in Ithaca.
I started making circuits when I was 13, mostly hacking C64s into mouse robots. i started making music when I was 17. Spent a lot of time learning how to play guitar as fast as possible, then got into Skinny Puppy and The Residents. Then I did grad school and stopped making music for a while.
Currently building a fartbox using a PCB I ordered from Sam. I hope to incorporate a few doing oscillators run off the same power supply.
I also am fixing some effects pedals and building a Ring Stinger clone and some other stuff, like a MFOS Echo Rockit. I’ve too many unfinished projects going, but rotating through them as I find I’ve got the wrong components for this one or that one has me still feeling productive.
Glad to be here.
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welcome in the forum
It took quite some time to realize that i didnt say my fair share of words about why i am really here, and that i asked questions before introducing myself
I am longing for a modular synth for quite some time, youtube hype and videos did plant a good pile of desparation and appetite onto that topic. I watched several different music-focussed youtubers for quite a long while and was a bit lost in between all the stimuli and the input.
I stumbled upon the wish to make electronic music way earlier as i wanted to have a ableton push, got it, but later sold it again, cause i couldnt really wrap my head around the whole ableton situation. Got a microbrute then and experimented with that for quite a while. Still have it and made the best decision to go full into with Live Suite nearly 2 years ago. That sparked alot and made me realise that my “dream-system” of a 5-6k Synth is not that desirable anymore, when you realise what funky things are “already” possible with software.
And so time passed on and someday Sam, whom i watched for quite a while, announced to bring out his modules as Diy Projects… Well that was a magical surprise for me and instantly resonated. Maybe because of the bigger and therefor somehow more accesbile way they are built or just because i could really identify me with his very hands on and direct approach to electronics and music in general. Eitherway it made me get a decent soldering station, tweezers and all thats helpful and made me start going the path to learn another skill that will ride with me as long as i live
Its a journey with quite a few stumbles in the beginning, but as i sense and see it gets better with every solderjoint made.
Apart from that i like living near the nature in a quiet place that doesnt force much stimulation on me apart from trees, stars and the classic few german “rednecks” you are unavoidably going to encounter, when living in a smaller place. That also creates a good mental training in my opinion, trying to get a grip on why there are so many unhappy and stupidly ignorant folks around. Thats a place to start and where much happieness can be brought to existence by some simple but meaningful interactions. Thats a world of thoughts that often comes swimming around and makes me brood.
Projects for the presence and the future :
Modular Synth Case with inbuilt Psu, for Eurorack and Kosmo in one Rack
LMNC :
1114 Filter Grr
1145 Vclfo
*2399 Tripple Splashback *
4710 Safety Valve
jh Krautrock Phaser
Lyra 8
A lot of fiddling and trying to be continued.
But im glad that there is such a never ending stream of stuff that enters the realm of electronic music equipment, that new things that are fun to use are always gonna pop up and will be time well spent, figuring out how one can have fun with it !
Thanks for reading !
I wish you a great time and good momentum for progress
Greetings from Syracuse!
Pilzfuss,
That was so well said. I’m happy that many of us had a long road through technology, software and musing about our place in all of this, myself included.
I’ve been planning a Kosmo without having gotten farther than looking into the bill of materials, and the planning has gotten so vast I want a visual of the case and ideas to the amperage and capital. There’s projects coming in the future from Kosmo and non-Kosmo:
LMNC :
1007 Midimuso Midi - CV
1113 René Schmitz
1114 Filter Grr
1145 1xVCLFO01
1157 Mini ADSR
1161 Buffered Multiple
1163 Mixer
1171 OBA
1181 2xVCA
1183 Quad VCA Mix
1222 Performance VCO
Analog Output :
Dual Quantizer
Gate Grinder
Mikrokosmos
crücFX :
2xVLPG
and there’s more in Kosmo specification I’m too lazy to listify…
-Fumu / Esopus
Hi , shaawano welcome . if you have any questions or have dug up / built something cool , let us know .
Hi pilzfuss , welcome and a very relatable back story .
Maybee make a start on building one module, getting everything in one go and trying to get it working would be very daunting.
Glad it resonated with you ! 