welcome!
Taper,
Welcome, welcome!
-Fumu / Esopus
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Ohh nice! Thats a good amount of stuff, I suck at coding things. The whole reason I found modular was because I wanted to make a midi drum kit out of a teensy 4 and I got swept into LMNCs current of ICs and wire =)
I look forward to seeing that PC joystick CV.
Welcome =D
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Hi All
I am very new to synths and electronic music. I play Bass and Sax but I have been looking at some sort of synth with sequencer/drum machine etc so I can jam along with it.
I found modular synths and find them facsinating but I cannot justify the cost and I can imagine they can become quite addictive.
I started looking for more DIY options and found LMNC on youtube and my mind was blown.
I am now researching where to start on this wonderful journey of musical mayhem.
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Welcome! Be warned that you might find the initial upfront cost of building to be not as cheap as you hope, and you’ll end up spending more time making modules than making music, and you may burn, cut, or electrocute yourself, and none of your friends or loved ones will understand or appreciate your hobby.
It’s fun! 
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Welcome!
The nice thing about DIY modular synths is that its cost can be incremental, and you can just do bit by bit. One can even just do simple drones etc for cheap without special power supplies and such, so just give it a search-aroony. Some things to look for: atari punk console, 555, stripboard layouts.
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Welcome here
yes an Atari Punk Console is very cool to begining
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Good day to you 
you are a great asset to the diy community . Thanks again for sharing your work . I have built your clock divider x2,
Quantizer x 2 and sequencer x 2 already 
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I’m Nic, I’ve always had an interest in sound synthesis. Majored in music at uni and, after playing with countless apps and what not, am finally jumping by building some of Sams modules
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Welcome in the forum Nic
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Hi My name is Benoit im from Quebec Canada. Just suscribed i work as electromecanic since 12 years or so,im on a long ‘‘break’’ kuz covid you know. so i figured i wanted to learn less mechanical industrials more fun electronics.I guess i have part of the digital logical gates and motors things figured out but when it’s about sound…Nope
i ordered some "diy kits’’ !!The first One was an DIY 50$ Oscilloscope Which Turned ON But no lines whatsoever isn’t very practical as i would have needed it to troubleshoot itself 
…
If someone have spare time eventually i might need a hand with that little thing too later on.
i received my stuff a bunch of chips i bought the ones that looked like the most useful to mess around with.Got an arduino i guess from the industrial point of view is a bit like a PLC that cant be tested live.
then Came the operational Amplifier !!! in Theory this thing looks more complicated than my wife.(all the links i found on Op-amps were technicals to the bone, with the guys talking about ‘‘the perfect op amp’’) to now i only know it can do alot of things.
i mean ok i have figured that transistor will controls signals and smalls loads after control a transistor to gate of a FET with PWM or plain DC
Obviously i don’t know a single thing about the Sound aspect of the electronics.i know that motor turn with a 12 vdc But since sound means frequencies That also means Ac everywhere ? Controlled by Dc signals ??
But When documentation talks about Op amps Amplifying the Signal that goes trough is it like saying that relays or transistor amplify ?? you know they like do they control a different line completely like relay does ? or they really amplify what you give it with its source…
I know i come in with a bunch of questions but,Im alone home since a year lmao,And it seems to be a very nice ‘place’ to talk about our projects and our questions,i still not believing Sam’s music he’s so good it’s crazy. Obviously i’m gonna go check the youtube pages sections and the most basics projects right now …
Yeahh that’s a veryy long post…sorry 
Stupid me i guess hehe
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Welcome to the forum, you already understand more than I do =) I treat it like painting by numbers and if it isnt working, then, I do the learny bit lol
So far ive been lucky (other than the big button I made working but not outputting proper trigger voltages) and only blown up a few TL072s
What things are you going to build first?
Bummer about the scope! I still need to get one, but I ‘want’ a proper lab style one =D
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i want to try some Dflip flip i have a few chip 4 of them on each…i have a kit wich came from amazon with like the most selled chips theres 3 for audio 3 are op amps combo then u have regulators and compensators i never tried any of it so i clean my workspace and whip out the bread board
Iam actually aiming at knowing the material for now so funky experiments and things…i dismantled 2 printers recently i tell you these are the best they were packed of things motors gears of all sorts i kept almost all except the cases haha
vhs and such things must be very nice too…i have a old micro-wave sitting but i will be gentle with that i heard peeps die with these microwave transfo’s they pack something (i mean if i plug it obviously but yeah theres a capacitor big as my hand wich might or might not have something left in it)
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Ohh nice! Have you seen those lightning etches people do on wood with them? Ive been tempted to try it but im also cautious of it.
Desktop photo scanners are also good for mechanical parts. Plus, when theyre gutted of parts you can make a light box for tracing and art stuff =)
We tend to tell people to avoid working with mains voltages unless they know what they’re doing. Lichtenberg patterns tend to kill also people who know how to work with mains voltages, since the usual notion of what’s insulating and not no longer applies.
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Here’s a Big Clive video where he recommends staying the fuck away from microwave transformers or any other device that can supply high voltages at high currents, and suggests using current-limited neon transformers if you want to experiment with this:
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Yeah i do 600v for a living but you see at home im not equipped with the right gear so no wood patterns for me nah i was tempted to make an arc just for fun but the more i come near dismantling it the more im thinking that high voltage on a job everysingle breaker is locked with 2 locks our own and one from the boss. So we dont really ‘‘make arcs for fun’’ lol and when i work near very high voltage like thousands of amps (that tone in the air hmmmmmmm) i wear a full suit helmelt and 2 pair of tested gloves plus my boots wich are for electrician…they call what ‘‘could’’ happen an Arc-flash so it’s the Arc-flash suit and we bring it on with us in the truck on every client…arc flashing is litteral explosion of the whole panel…yeah electricity is fun but being alive is too
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i just finished sorting all the things i have since the printers i dismantled had scanners and copier i have some weird bars that looks like a very long led and under a dark lign follow all long the two bars i think this is like light reflection on iR sensors to read text…might try to do something fun with that…i got some standard motors a shit ton of halls sensor and 3 step so i guess my ultimate goal this year would be to make my own 3d printer i need one so bad.(i also found a electro-clutch wich might do something fun on littles wheels it’s flagrant one printer was older full of pretty expensive material easy to replace and repare…the other is very recent and that was a TON of plastic grears and cams that did the whole thing plus like 4x less motor than the older machine…they really make stuff to it to die #righttorepair
I love his videos he’s very practical and logical, the security systems are on work site by (here it’s called CSST)
i was doing just this installing emergency stop Bluetooth Deadman’s handles .
‘‘limit’’ switch for security covers and sometime laser curtain or even Lidar that scan at knee height and you decide a pattern of object no to care about.
All the above on 2 signals called OSSD1 and 2 both like pretty much clock and is redundant so you have 2 signals that need to loop twice all the system.
IF all parts a ok in the program of the Safety PLC , the safety relays that has 2 coils for double contacts redundancy and they have a special way of cannot get soldered or a failsafe is built in the safety relay.
and to add to the top we need to have all the kit from companies like ABB or halen-bradley, see their composants understand only their same brand safety Signals.
and of course Have to pay for the program to be able to put the ladder in the PLC
(then we could run the sequence live and be able to troubleshoot while live a features that DIY’s controllers are lacking i think
These installations are very populars these years my boss company Exploded from 2 guys to 12 in 2.5 years. Workplaces accident are something that became serious in all the good shops. 
Hi all, name’s is b. and I started building a modular synth after lots of videos on the LMNC channel. I got few gears during the various lockdown (in the UK) but I decided to start the DIY stuff recently.
This forum has been really useful and so far I have made two 1222 VCO and they are both working fine.
I am planning on making my own VCF and LFO but I am also keen on getting started on sequencers.
Quick advice from me, don’t buy cheap wood panels…
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