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DIY noise synth oscillator drone thingies?!?

Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 3:41 am
by ThurberMingus
Anyone know of any? I really like the look and sounds of the Rucci Electronics stuff, but I feel like that is something I could wire up myself. I've made an Atari Punk Console, and that was pretty cool, but I'm looming for something more exciting, preferably on Vero. Anyone have any recommendations?

Re: DIY noise synth oscillator drone thingies?!?

Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 10:02 am
by Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.
i think synthrotek sells some kits?

Re: DIY noise synth oscillator drone thingies?!?

Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 11:26 am
by ThurberMingus
I was hoping to avoid kits and make something from scratch, but I have been intrigued by their offerings for a while now.... :excellent:

Re: DIY noise synth oscillator drone thingies?!?

Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 6:36 pm
by lordgalvar
ThurberMingus wrote:I was hoping to avoid kits and make something from scratch, but I have been intrigued by their offerings for a while now.... :excellent:
Start with a feedback loop and a preamp/eq. Or an oscillating fuzz. Look for modular schematics to add from there (like lfos, s+h, filters and stuff). Tie it all together in a box.

You could also probably just find oscillator schematics and just send them a cv signal with a 555 timer circuit or something. Or just make oscillators out of 555's.

Re: DIY noise synth oscillator drone thingies?!?

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:20 pm
by gordian knot
+1 on the 555 oscillator as a starting point - they are classics.

the 556 is a couple of 55s in a single package - good for playing around with

There are some low-power 555s too (the 555 can drive some stuff, but for a function generator you don't really need to drive much)

LM386s are simple little current mirror audio amps (abt 1/4 watt) but you can have hours of fun doing things to them and the external part count is low

Re: DIY noise synth oscillator drone thingies?!?

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 11:26 am
by tabbycat
baby 8 sequencer vero layout can be found at electromusic.com. a relatively easy build.
wsg (weird sound generator) is on vero and pcb at mfos. verified vero layout there. ugly format but verified.
colin at experimentalists.com has some interesting projects in his schematics, but you will need to translate them to vero.

Re: DIY noise synth oscillator drone thingies?!?

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:55 am
by moose23
Beavis has some cool stuff based around the 40106 chips.

Re: DIY noise synth oscillator drone thingies?!?

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:30 am
by KaosCill8r
moose23 wrote:Beavis has some cool stuff based around the 40106 chips.
Last time I checked, Beavis was gone. :idk:

Re: DIY noise synth oscillator drone thingies?!?

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:08 am
by moose23
KaosCill8r wrote:
moose23 wrote:Beavis has some cool stuff based around the 40106 chips.
Last time I checked, Beavis was gone. :idk:
Shit here's a few links to other sites with his circuit. I think I have his images on a hard drive, will check and post em up if I do.

http://levysounddesign.blogspot.ie/2013 ... lorer.html

http://www.pearltrees.com/u/10915929-sy ... s-research

http://elettrofonesi.blogspot.ie/2010/05/lofi-o.html

and this is instructions on how to make it on vero:

http://humhack.org/downloads/heterodyne ... ctions.pdf

Re: DIY noise synth oscillator drone thingies?!?

Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2015 6:08 am
by morange
Plus, there's always webarchive, right? A lot of great sites have gone down over the years.

Re: DIY noise synth oscillator drone thingies?!?

Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 5:10 pm
by Gone Fission
tabbycat wrote:baby 8 sequencer vero layout can be found at electromusic.com. a relatively easy build.
http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-52774.html
Nice. But I'm confuzzled about the TS CV out rather than TRS. Is the TRS only for expression inserted into the CV circuit?

Re: DIY noise synth oscillator drone thingies?!?

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 7:03 am
by colossus
I've been having a blast with CMOS stuff recently.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150506052 ... thesizers/