[sdiy] almost finished with first DIY synth

[John L Marshall]

Kevin,

I think that there is benefit for musicians to understand the technology
that they work with. Eventually music will appear in your mind and the only
way to realize that sound is with custom hardware. You need to understand
what is possible and how to get there. Anything is possible.

In the early days of analog synthesizers there was usually a close
collaboration between musician and engineer; Subotnick and Buchla, Carlos
and Moog. You might want to consider collaboration with a nearby engineer.

John
.----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Chang <iphlegm at yahoo.com>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 9:41 AM
Subject: [sdiy] almost finished with first DIY synth


> After 12 hours in 3 sittings and a soldering
> iron-burned pinky, my new PAiA Fatman is finally
> almost complete.  I powered it up and was able to get
> sound out of it last night.  I don't think the tuning
> parts of the circuit were working quite right though.
> It was late, and I didn't have a chance to take a
> closer look at it.
>
> Now that I am finally almost done, this may be my
> first and last synth DIY project.  This is not to say
> I didn't enjoy building it, but I realized several
> hundred solderings into it that I'd rather be making
> music that sitting on my bum breathing solder fumes.
> We'll see, only time will tell.
>
> Kevin
>
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