sdiy

Synthesizer DIY

Wiki

General description of eurorack related things (see list of all pages to the right):

• Eurorack Basics
• Powersupply
• VCO
• VCA
• VCF
• Filter
• Envelopes
• Case
• Vactrol
• Interfaces
• Eurorack Circuit Design

Resources

DIY

• Doepfer's Eurorack Construction Details: Measurements for Panels etc.
• Doepfer's DIY Page: Some useful basic circuits
• electro-music's circuit vault
• SDIY.org: A big collection of sdiy circuits
• Eliott Sound Products: A hifi focused collection of circuits and explainations (Amplifiers, EQs, Filters, Mixers, crossovers, Impedance, etc)
• Falstad Circuit.js: A crude realtime circuit simulator with many example circuits

Info

Techniques

Video playlist of modular synthesis basics

Modulation

Synthesizer Boot Camp

FM/PM

The Power of FM Workshop
the Power of FM part one
the Power of FM part two
the Power of FM part three/dexed

Soldering

Part one: Tools and Materials
Part two: Soldering

Modules

• Modulargrid: A extensive Collection of Eurorack Modules
• DivKidVideo's youtube playlists: Non-boring reviews of eurorack modules + more
• Raul's World of Synths youtube playlists: Extensive and long reviews and descriptions of most Doepfer Modules
• muffwiggler forum: The biggest community forum on modular synthesizers
• electromusic.com forum: Another reputable community

Shops

• Thonk Online shop: A UK-based online shop for DIY-Kits, PCBs and Panels
• Schneidersladen: The famous Shop in Berlin
• Escape From Noise The famous Shop in Nacka
• Modular Synthesizer section at Thomann's
• Synthcube.com: DIY Kits
• modular addict DIY Kits

Projects

Current/Ongoing

• Clockgen – a simple clock generator with adjustable pulse width and inverted output (Clockgen Project Repository)
• Stripboardmixer – a simple 3 channel mixer with master fader (Stripboardmixer Project Repository)
• TH-VCO1 – a cheap high quality analogue Oscillator (TH-VCO1 Wiki Entry and TH-VCO1 Project Repository)
• LPSU – a simple linear powersupply (LPSU Project Repository)
• Minicase – a small 88HP eurorack case (Minicase Project Repository)
• Simplecase – a simple 84HP case with one or two rows (Simplecase Project Repository)

Archive

• • Polivoks VCF by Erica Synths – a voltage controlled Filter with soviet ICs (Polivoks VCF Wiki Entry)