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Gestural Music Sequencer

Gestural Music Sequencer from Unearthed Music on Vimeo.

"Josh Clos produced this documentary short about the Gestural Music Sequencer or GMS."

prior posts featuring the term gestural

Ultimate Cynthcart Commodore 64

YouTube via kilobyte242
"fully customized Commodore 64, enhanced for Cynthcart. Features SID2SID installation, Linear/Slider pot for Cynthcart filter, active guitar effects (overdrive and frequency filter) for each SID's output, an mounted musical overlay, feedback knobs.....for more information check out www.kilobytemodshop.com"

Acid Alert - Traffic Jam

On MATRIXSYNTH-C. Don't miss this. Comment there.
"Analog production from Oliver Dodd featuring the TB303 TR808 SH101 and the TR707"

Serv Seq

Serv Seq from Gijs on Vimeo.

gieskes.nl/instruments/?file=serv-seq

KNOBSTER MelloFAN

"If you like noise, and you know how to use it for music, the synthesizer MelloFAN exactly what you need. With this synthesizer you can perform music on an ordinary household fan.

Main features:
* Adjustable «melodiousness»;
* Adjustable frequency and amount of rotation;
* ADSR-envelope;
* LP filter."

Linn LM-1 Drum Computer and the Oberheim DMX

via Hey, what's that sound on the guardian.uk (click through for the full article). via The Museum of Techno on Twitter (http://twitter.com/museumoftechno)

"What are they? The first drum machines to feature digital sampling. Before the release of Linn's LM-1 Drum Computer in 1980, early drum machines could only synthesise drum sounds out of bursts of white noise or sine waves. The LM-1 and Oberheim's DMX sampled actual drum hits, which could be programmed and manipulated with lovely knobs."

Tim (good enough for analog) Servo sent the following in to the SDIY list. I asked him if I could put it up here and he gave me the OK.

"For learning basic electronics and finding some fun circuits to play with, I'd recommend any of the Forrest Mims "Engineer's Notebook" series.

http://www.forrestmims.com/
http://www.forrestmims.com/engineers_mini_notebook.html
http://www.radioshack.com/pwr/product-reviews/Toys-Games/Hobby-projects-kits/RadioShack/p/2102913-Electronics-Learning-Lab.html

For more thorough electronic theory, "Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521370957

Also try the "Op Amp Cookbook," "IC Timer Cookbook" and others by Walter Jung.
http://www.amazon.com/Op-Amp-Cookbook-3rd-Walter-Jung/dp/0138896011

For a great collection of synth circuits and some theory behind them, "Electronic Music Circuits" by Barry Klein. Highly recommended, and Barry is even a list member.
http://members.cox.net/barryklein/em.htm

Electronotes. You will love this. Guaranteed. If you don't want to pop for the entire collection, at least get the "Preferred Circuits Collection."
http://electronotes.netfirms.com/

I also sell reprints of several books by Thomas Henry that concentrate on one specific chip (e.g. 3080 OTA, or 566 VCO) or one type of synth circuit (e.g. Drum Circuits or Noise Circuits) through Magic Smoke Electronics at www.lulu.com/magsmoke

You will definitely want to get yourself a decent meter. I have one that was less than $100 and does capacitance and frequency readings. Not super accurate, but VERY handy. Also, do yourself a favor and get an oscilloscope. You can easily get by with an older model with lower bandwidth (5 or 10MHz is good enough for analog synth stuff), although a dual trace model is recommended. Again, you can often find a used
model for less than two or three hundred, and a scope will make diagnosing and troubleshooting SO much easier.

And welcome back to synth building!

Tim (good enough for analog) Servo"

Note the Atari Punk Console comes from Forrest Mims' designs.

Update: be sure to see the comments below for more recommendations.