Hello, I’m Alex, from Northern France (Lille to be very accurate.)
I’ve been listening to music for quite a long time now, have been doing it for a few years in a band called Shiko Shiko (in which YMNK from this forum also played.)
I have been considering joining this forum for a long time now, and today was the time. I often have trouble finding the energy to interact with people on the internet, I did more than 15 years ago on a music forum I loved, but I lost the faith/energy to do that since social media have become too massive and people are not there to discuss but to argue over everything instead of sorting things out. I think I will get something more positive that fits more the way I see human interactions over the internet in here.
Concerning my professional background, I was a freelance translator (English to French and a bit of French to English,) but I’m currently working in delivery, that way I don’t have all the problems I had being a freelance worker, having a quite low self-esteem not really matching the requirements for that.
I discovered LMNC a few years back then with a video of him explaining how synthesizers worked, and I got hooked. I was at the time trying to have things to do with my hands on holidays. I understand a bit how electronics work. A bit. I am also a big fan of his music.
I am still trying to find time / confidence to make music, my self-esteem being what it is, I tend not to be able to write music.
Concerning my current projects, I’m planning on building the AAAPPPCCC and the Oscillator Drone of Doom. I’ve also recently begun playing the bass in a post-punk band, and currently thinking about shrinking my pedalboard down
I hope it was not too long to read, otherwise, please tell me, I’ll make it shorter
Hayaa all! My names Hex (real name) and i just joined. I have a huge love in t e creation of making circuits and pcbs in eagle. I get lost in it like i was doing a painting. I started moving over to kosmo format about a year ago and never looked back its so much more useful both live and just testing new ideas. I’m mostly self taught started out making guitar pedals then designing the pcbs.
I love building and repairing guitar valve amps as well as old 90s synths for circuit bending.
Best i can do for audio atm is phone recordings as my pc is trashed and i got to basically build a new one over the next few week. What sucks
All the switch’s are shorting different pins on the k1 chipset. A. Long as you leave the 5v alone you can short anything to anything else and get an interesting result. This pic was taken early in the modding.
When i had about 10 toggles wired up. I could have use 3.5mm jacks for more freedom but after adding 20 circuit bent toggles it was already overwhelming with options
For the panel i used a dermal saw to cut out a square then layered 2mm clear perspex over 2mm black perspex sheet.
Made this phone upload for now to give a general idea. But plan to exhaustively sample it when i can
The part on the right is currently unfinished. A pcb design of my own that takes audio and makes it into a analogues vco using a 4046 for the VCO and 4013.
hello, i am new here. i am 49 and up til a year ago i didn’t know difference between AC and DC. then youtube showed me a video in which a young lad put a computer in a model rocket. i was hooked! all i needed to do was learn how to make rockets, and computers for them. so the ride began…i bought a bench supply, some components, and started learning-555ICs, 741 op amps, making circuits, soldering, etching circuits, using breadboards, what on earth is a transformer?, made kits, made a tesla coil, made a radio, made a spark gap transmitter, made a rocket, made avionics with IMU, BMP180, SD card reader, and arduino nano that fit in a 1 inch tube rocket, learned about differential power, bought another bench supply, bought an oscilloscope, bought a function generator. phew.so that was up til a week ago. then i thought how does a synth work? so i found sam’s videos and bought some 3340 chips. I made an oscillator then thought now what? i have no amp to plug it into, or control voltage to drive it. so i made an op amp pre-amp, and a bd139 class a amp, to drive a big speaker cab i found in a skip. and used my function generator to supply voltages to make it make cool noises.
so i have become interested in electronic music because of the electronic, not the music. next it is envelope generator and filters…
Hello All!
I am an electrical engineer, brand new to synths. I plan on building a module or two to play with!
My only music project so far has been a Theremin. I hope I can learn a lot from here! Exited to have joined the group
I too said to myself, I’m just having a VCO made for fun, and I’m certainly not the only one to have a giant block in my room today,
be careful it’s addictive …
forgot to mention none of this would have been possible without elctroboom Mehdi. i have watched his vids again and again. thanks for saying hullo to me!
Hello I’m Sandelinos. I’m building a DIY modular in the eurorack format mostly out of stripboard (guitar pedals too). I have a website where I write about my projects and post my music as well as channels on Peertube and Youtube where I make videos talking about circuit design and showing my process of building modules.
I’m beaconmodular from Paris, France. I started building a couple simple utility modules about a year ago to complement a behringer Neutron. I gather resources from books and from the internet and try to understand it as best as I can as I have no background in physics beyond highschool (math is okay-ish). I am already learning a lot here and just got assistance on the simple AR EG by LMNC.
The modules I’ve built so far are attenuators, a mixer (Kristian Blasol), unbuffered multiples, an arduino LFO, a VCA (moritz klein) and an AR EG (lmnc).
My current work in progress is based on this circuit by TheAudioPhool. I breadboarded it and started a module housing 3x2 oscillators and added 6 vactrol controls. It’s a lot of components crammed into a small volume so I’m progressing slowly:
