Build your own Analog Synthesizer

Do It Yourself Synth Sites

E-Music DIY archive

Archive of synth information and schematics.

Weird Sound Generator

An EXCELLENT FIRST PROJECT in synth building. The site contains a LOT of information on building this project.

Build A Portable Synth

John Simonton's original article on building a basic synth. This article has designs and instructions for building Paia electronics' original GNOME synth. It contains a VCO, Noise Generator, VCF, VCA, and 2 function generators. No application specific Integrated Circuits are required, however the LM3900 could be a little difficult to locate.

Resonant Frequency

Information and schematics for all aspects of building a synth. In addition to schematice, includes information on topics like basic electronics, and etching a circuit board.

Electronotes

Bernie Hutchins original periodical to the design and construction of synthesizers. If you are really interested, the "Everything Package" is a great deal, you will be busy for a LONG time. If you just want a taste, do as he suggests, start with the "Preferred Circuits Collection" then add the "Musical Engineers Handbook". If you still want more, get Everything.

YuSynth DIY Synth

A whole series of analog synth module plans. Each module has it's own page dedicated to it and the page includes schematics, parts list, printed circuit board layout, and even sound samples. Very thorough and complete.

Papareil Synth Labs

Includes design information, schematics and pictures for several different synths. All these synths look great - they have been VERY professionally built. These are really quite good and unique. Includes 2 standard analog synth designs, a midi to CV-gate converter, a Vacuum Tube Analog Synthesizer, a theremin, and 2 drum machine clones.

Experimantalists Anonymous

A site with quite a few schematics in the archive section. It is very nicely organized with seperate directories for each type of device. Also, there are a wide range of devices (oscillators, filters, MIDI, circuit bending etc....).

Kaustic Machines

A nice website that contains schematics for some fairly simple projects. The Atari Punk console project is a very simple basic synth.

Modular Synth

Information on lots of modules, and links about analog synths. Lots of great and unique schematics.

electro-music.com

Check out the Forum section for music DIY web sites.

Crackle Box

Crackle Box schematics. Designed by Michel Waisvisz of STEIM in the 70's. A small, relatively simple noise based synth. One part seems to be particularly difficult to find, the 709 op amp. Even though the instructions say substitutes will not work, supposedly the Mouser part NTE 909d will work. See this electro-music forum article.

Di It Yourself - Build a mudular synthesizer

This is a series of articles by John Simonton (of Paia Electronics - see link above). The articles originally appeared in Radio-Electronics and are reprinted with permission. They contain excellent descriptive text, schematics, printed circuit board layouts, and parts list for all basic modules to build a modular synth. Many, if not all, of the modules were originally available as kits from Paia. Control inputs are somewhat dated in that they all appear to be linear, and exponential control is obtained from the controller. Still, a lot of good information and modules.

The Electronic Peasant

Relatively small yet interesting collection of electronic projects. Includes several vacuum tube based projects.

Grant Richters Synth-Diy page

Lots of uniques modules to build

Music From Outer Space

Home of the SoundLab mini synth. The DIY page has schematics for all components of this synth. This site also sells synth kits for building.

Scott Stites Synth DIY

Lots of information and links for DIY synthesis.

The New and Improved Scott Stites Synth DIY

Like the title says, Scott Sites new updated DIY synth site. Contains several designs by Thomas Henry. Much of this information is quite detailed including quite a bit about module construction.

Commonsound Collective

A collective that designs innovative audio devices. Not only are there some great devices here but there is a forum with tons of support for building these devices. Check out the triwave picogenerator for something not incredibly complex, yet with lots of options for tinkering.

SynthDIY

A large repository of DIY information on synth building. In addition to many schematics, the file section contains data sheets, front panel layouts, assembly plans and much more.

Sound Lab Mini Synth

Information for building a basic 2 oscillator analog synth. What is great about this website is that you can take on as much construction as you like. You can take just the schematics and build everything, or you can get a printed circuit board and buy parts yourself, or there is a link to buying a kit of parts. In addition there is information for mounting, front panel and modifications.

Unusual Synth Circuits

A fairly large collection of mostly basic Synth Circuits (VCO, VCA, VCF, EG). As stated on the site, This site is not for beginners, but those looking for new synth circuits. Be sure to check out his photos - his 2002-2003 synth was built in Tupperware and looks very cool!

The Electronic Sound-House

In addition to some standard Synth modules this site has some very unique stuff. For example there is information and schematics for an analog wind controller and a midi wind controller. There is also an electronic implementation of a physical modelling clarinet. Everything contains both schematics and design notes. Not, however, the design notes are very thorough and quite technical.

Bergfotron DIY Analog Synthesizer Pages

A site with all the designs for building a quite complex analog synthesizer. Not only is there information concerning the sound generating and processing electronics, he also includes information on the more routine modules such as a power supply and even a case. He has a section on construction which contains instructions for etching your own circuit boards. He even has plans for a unique wind controller.

Cloned Analog Gear

This site contains copies of articles describing the design, assembly and operation of various analog sound generating and processing modules. UPDATE - 10.30/10 It appears they are revising this website - currently it is under construction. Check back, hopefully this great content will return soon.

MOTM-porium

The DIY page has quite a few unique modular synth processing modules. There is not a lot of standard modules here (not many filters, VCAs, VCos etc...), however there are a lot of modules for processing sounds. There have very unique names for unique functions, such as Neural Agonizer, and Veeblefetzer. There are partial kits available for some of the modules.

DIY

Schematics - some very interesting processing modules.

Digisound 80 modular synthesizer

Contains the plans and schematics and documentation for modules that were part of the Digisound 80 modular synthesizer. This is a synth that appears to have been produced as kits in the 80s in England. I am not familiar with this synth, but the information here seems quite comprehensive. The only potential problem in assembling these yourself might be obtaining the Curtis electronic music chips that were used. The web site does list a source, but I do not know the current availability.

Seb's Synth-DIY Pages

Another site with plans for various synth modules. These plans are quite complete and have some unique modules - such as the JoyKontrol, a 6-dimensional dual joystick controller with MIDI and CV outs. Also has plans for a MIDI to CV converter with full source code or if you prefer, you can obtained a preprogrammed chip for this.

Marjan's Synthesizer Schematics

A very interesting site that contains schematics for many commercial synths. some manufacturers that are included are Serge, Buchla, Moog, Oberheim and others.

Synth.net

Synthesizer resource - mostly links to other sites.

The ASM-1 Homepage

All information for building the ASM-1 synth. Includes schematics, front panel layouts, even theory of operation notes. Unfortunately, many of the links to other people's pages about building this synth do not work.

Labolida

Contains information for 2 DIY synths - The nano1, a monophonic digital synth, and Tiny Synth, a monophonic hybrid synth. Both of these are a little more advanced projects. Both require the ability to burn code into into EEPROM memory (code is provided on the site).

The Jim Patchell Synthesizer DIY Web Page

Jim Patchell has been designing and building his own synths since 1973. This page not only contains documentation for many of his designs, but also quite a bit of general tips and information.

Mini Synth Sound Effects Synthesizer

This is the instruction manual for building the Mini Synth Sound Effects Synthesizer. The completed project contains a voltage Controlled Oscillator, a noise generator,, an Attack-Decay generator, a Voltage Controlled Filter, and a Voltage Controlled Amplifier. This web site includes a printed circuit board layout, but you will have to create the circuit board yourself. See the section below on "Making Circuit Boards" if you need instructions on how to do this.

Jürgen Haible

Jurgen has built some amazing recreations of classic synths and effects. Occasionally he makes PCBs of his designs available. He has published many of his schematics on this site.

Not Breathing Sound Systems and Carrion Sound

This site has a small collection of interesting and unique schematics. Two that look especially interesting - though I have not built either are "Easy Sleazy Joystick Noise Synth" and "Building a Crappy 2Bit Sampler". The "Easy Sleazy Joystick Noise Synth" looks quite simple and would be very appropriate for a beginner (if you can read schematics).

Analog Tracking Generator

Schematic for a very interesting device. At it's most basic, it acts as a voltage quantizer, but it can also "twist" control voltages into some interesting shapes.

Mini Space Rockers Analog Percussion Generator

Wric Archer provides a schematic for a relatively simple to build analog percussion synth. There are also samples of the sounds the synth makes and a neat video of the Mini Space Rockers in action.

DIY Effect Projects

Tonepad fx projects

This site is primarily effect projects. There are, however, various utility type projects, such as a power supply or A/B selector switch. All projects are ranked Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, or Insane.

Synth Kits

Companies that sell modular analog synthesizer kits.

PAiA Electronics

Probably the original DIY synth companies. This company has an extensive history of assisting and promoting DIY electronic music. Their kits are just great. I have built and use many of them myself.

Synthesis Technology

The MOTM analog modular synthesizer. Modules can be ordered as a kit or fully assembled.

Blacet Research Music Products

Compact Analog modules available both as kits and assembled.

Magic Smoke Electronics

This is not yet a kit site (although they are planning to offer at least 1 kit). They do however offer several Thomas Henry's books on do-it-yourself musical electronics.

Build Your Own Clone

This site features kits for building "stomp box" type effects. They also allow you to buy just the printed circuit boards - you supply the electrical components and enclosure.

Harrison Instruments

Harrison Instruments provides several kits for building your own pitch only theremin. A short video on building this kit is available here.

Music From Outer Sapce

Music from Outer Space has a fairly large number of complete and partial kits (some only printed circuit boards) for a wide variety of analog synth modules. What is great about this site, is that in addition to the kits, the projects have complete plans(circuit schematic, printed circuit board layout, component list) so you could even build the entire project yourself.

Electric Western

As they state on their website "Electric Western is devoted to the exploration and evolution of pre-1950s electronic musical instruments." Some very interesting "older" electronics including vacuum tubes, coils and even steam. Only 1 synth kit is currently available, more are in the works.

SX-150 Analog Synthesizer Kit

This is an inexpensive kit for a basic analog synth. There are controls for LFO, pitch envelope, frequency cutoff, resonance, and attack/decay. There is also a slider type control for pitch. Please note, although assembly appears relatively straightforward, the instructions are not in English. It also appears people are starting to mod this unit - on the MAKE website, there is even a mod for adding MIDI control.

Drone Lab

Casper Electronics is making available a synth kit for creating "rich drones and pulsating sequences". Although not available at the time of this writing (10/09), Casper Electronics plans to post price and ordering info "as soon as possible". The synth features 4 oscillators, external audio input, a low pass filter, distortion, 2 band pass filters, and a tremolo bank. Audio samples are available on the website.

Sonodrome

Sonodrome has some very simple kits hardware available. One is a battery powered pocket sized oscillator, another is a distortion kit, and finally they have a small amp/speaker kit. Although not really modular analog synths, you can still create interesting sounds with these alone, or combining them with additional synth/processing modules. The kits appear to be very simple to assemble. Two additional features - the circuit boards for the kits are available in 4 colors,, and if you prefer to do it yourself, you can download the printed circuit board layouts for free and use your own parts to assemble these kits.

Synthrotek

Synthrotek offers a variety of sound kits. Most interesting to analog sytnth enthusiasts are its 16 and 8 step sequencers. Synthrotek also offers a few processing kins including a fuzz effect and a delay. In addition, a popular starter synth (although not strictly analog), Synthrotek also offers a kit for the Atari Punk Console. It looks like all kits can be purchased as kits, fully assembled, or just printed circuit boards.

Get LoFi shop

Get LoFi provides low priced kits and components for creating synthesis hardware. The kits are not all 100%analogue, but they all have interesting sound generating and processing capabilities.

Build A Theremin Sites

Theremin World

An entire website devoted to the theremin. Includes links to numerous types of theremin schematics (including a vacuum tube theremin project) as well as a lot of other theremin information.

Art's Theremin Page

All kinds of information about the theremin. Several different schematics including one that does not require an inductor - if that matters to you right now.

The Wien-Bridge Theremin

A very thorough site describing the Wein-Bridge Theremin and its construction. Includes background/theoretical information, schematics, circuit board layout, and even unit testing instructions.

Build a Pocket Theremin on the Cheap

A very simple and inexpensive theremin. Estimated cost is $18.95 (including a small speaker). However, one difference between this design and a traditional theremin is that this theremin is controlled by using your hand to control changes in lighting. Also, the website states that this theremin is very light sensitive and works best in subdued lighting. Still, this is a very simple and inexpensive project.

2 Transistor Optical Theremin

This site (automatically translated from Spanish)contains a schematic for an extremely simple optical theremin based on 2 transistors. The entire design requires only 7 parts - 2 transistors, 1 capacitor, 1 photoresistor, 1 speaker, 1 jack, and batteries.

Another Light Controlled Theremin

"Using a Simple circuit you can turn shadows into music! Well elecronic music."
A relatively simple design for a light controlled theremin. Uses a 555 timer chip. Completely self contained. Would be a good beginner project - even a first time electronic music project.

Other Sound and Electronics Web Sites

Monome Controller

An open source alternate controller consisting of a 8 x 8 grid of backlit buttons. Completely programmable and reconfigurable. They have started supplying kits for assembly. A VERY INTERESTING project

RGB Monome Clone

Here is information for building a Monome Clone. It is a pretty plain web site, but it seems to contain all the information you need, including schematics, parts suppliers, and code (I haven't built this so I am not certain of the completeness). The clone is based around an Arduino processor. The author has not completed the the color button part of the site - it will be interesting to see this upgrade!

The Stribe

Another very cool controller! This is an 8 channel touch controller. Each channel is similar to a slider, however it can be positioned at any point instantly by touching that location. In addition, each channel has a dual row of LEDs to provide visual feedback. This is not an analog project, but it can be used as a great controller for analog synths. Note, this is an advanced project.

Richard Lerman's Audio Art Site

A great resounce for using piezo disks and other transducers. Check out the Articles/Schematics section. Lots of great projects - most are very easy to build (great for beginners). Even includes schematics for making a condenser mic. Just a lot of great information.

Digital Logic Sound Devices

A site that describes how digital logic devices work and has designs for several audio projects using digital logic devices.

Elliott Sound Products - Audio Pages

This is a good diy audio project page. It is not synthesizers, rather these projects are things such as power amps and accessories, mixers, meters, preamps etc.... They also have printed circuit boards avail for many, if not all, of there projects

DIY dunking hydrophone

Build your own underwater microphone!

Smaller Projects and Pedals

Loopton Feedback Loop

This is a simple stomp box for creating a feedback loop. The project is quite simple and does not require a printed circuit board, integrated circuits, or complex soldering. The site contains a thorough photo tutorial of constructing this device.

MemPot

Here is a neat circuit to create a Potentiometer with a memory. This is not a strictly analog circuit - it uses a PIC 16F819 microcontroller to playback resistances to a digital potentiometer.

General Guitar Gadgets

This is a guitar stompbox DIY site. They have schematics and circuit board layouts for numerous effects. They also sell full and partial jits to build these effects. If you are interested in building guitar effects, their Link section has links to numerous other DIY guitar effect sights.

Beavis Audio Research

Contains designs for several pedals and stomp box effects. In addition there is some basic electronics information on the site (about capacitors, providing power to pedals, potentiometers, switches etc...). Also a good article about finishing and labeling enclosures.

DIY Fever

Guitar related projects - not synthesizers. Still a nice variety from simple to advanced (he even rates them for you). Quite a few stomp box type effect. He also has plans for building with a circuit board or a perf board. Also, one nice bonus, he has free software for circuit board layout,. I have not used this software, but he claims it works for laying out printed circuit boards, perfboards or stripboards.

Audio Projects from Beavis Audio

Here is a page of very interesting projects. Most are guitar effects. The projects have various levels of detail - from complete to worjks-in-progress. The projects from very simple to quite involved (one project is an 8 step tone sequencer based on the Arduino microprocessor board).

gaussmarkov: diy fx

A page of schematics and circuit layouts for stompbox type effects. Many of the effects are replications of classic stompboxes.

Capacitance /Touch Switch Circuits

A list of circuits for building touch switches.

Lab Notebook

All kinds of information on designing guitar effects - but can be used in any type of effect circuit.

Not Necessarily Analog Synthesis

CMOS Synthesizers - Building Tone Generators from CMOS Logic

This page has schematics for using digital CMOS chips (ICs) to build 9 different of tone generators. The circuits range from very simple to somewhat complex. The most complex circuit includes 3 oscillators, a complex waveform generator, a white noise generator, and a mixer. As I mentioned, these are digital, not analog circuits, also, there is no voltage control. These are basically stand alone sound sources that can be fed into other processing equipment.

Synth DIY with PIC microprocessors

On this site Tom Wiltshire has implemented some basic analog synthesis modules using PIC microprocessors. As I write this, he has 2 designs available: a voltage controlled LFO with numerous waveforms and a wave distort input, and a voltage controlled ADSR that is a clone of the Curtis CEM3312 or Solid State SSM2056 chips.

Simple Step Sequencer

A nice project to create an eight step sequencer. Each step has control for frequency, duration, and pause before next note. This unit only provides voltage output. The voltage has to be connected to a voltage controlled sound source. Also, this project requires the ability to program a PIC chip. Finally, the instructions speak of using a laser cutter to fabricate parts of the enclosure - I wouldn't let that stop you, You can easily accomplish these tasks with more traditional tools (drill, saw etc..).

Meeblip

The Meeblip is actually a digital synth that allows you to create some very analog like sounds. It is monophonic, and is controlled by switches and knobs. There is also a MIDi input. What is great about this synth is that it comes in a variety of DIY build it options. The simplest option is a "quick build" that requires no soldering, down to a "micro Kit" that is basically all the electronics components (you assemble) without any hardware.

Build a simple synth for under $20

Like the title says, you can build a basic synth for under $20.00. This synth has a digital square/pulse wave oscillator. A potentiometer (knob) varies the duty cycle of the square wave. Pitch is controlled by a separate potentiometer, or an adjustable frequency square wave LFO. This project is built on a breadboard, so you need not solder or create your own circuit board. This is an excellent project for someone who wants to start building synths.

Miscellaneous Synthesis Projects and Kits

Highly Liquid

A company that sells kits for MIDI retrofits and various types of MIDI decoders.

1 Bit Groove Box

This is not analog synth, still it is a cool synthesis project. It is a programmable digital synth that fits in a VHS Cassette box. It is similiar to Tristan Perich's 1 bit music synthesis in CD cases.

Spring Reverb circuits

Spring Reverb Circuit

This pdf document has a schematic and ample notes for building a spring reverb unit. The only thing missing is the printed circuit board layout.

Spring Reverb Unit 2

Another spring reverb circuit and notes. This circuit has an optional preamp to use the reverb with a guitar, and an optional headphone amplifier.

Acutronics reverb schematics

Here Accutronics provides a whole series of circuits for driving a spring reverb.

Paia Hot Springs Reverb

This spring reverb schematic from Paia electronics (designed by Craig Anderton) requires 2 spring reverb tanks. Paia also has it available as a kit.

TLN-156 Neural Agonizer

A voltage Controlled spring reverb. This projest is from the MOTM-porium site above.

Electronic Component Suppliers

Mouser electronics

General electronic components and supplies.

Digi-Key

General electronic components and supplies.

Newark Electronics

Newark Electronics has a very large selection of electronics components. They have been in business since 1934, and before the internet, they were delivering electronics components ordered from their extensive catalog. In addition to allowing you to browse and order electronics components, their website allows you to get questions answered via live chat (online or by phone).

All Electronics

More electronic components.

Radio Shack

Not generally your first choice for components, and rarely if ever the cheapest, but often times the most conveinant, and sometimes even surprising.

Circuit Specialists

Again components. A good source for resistors, and printed Circuit board making materials.

Jameco

Again components. Not as extensive as Mouser or DigiKey, but sometimes less expensive

Futurlec

A smaller supplier of components and more. They are smaller than Digi-key or Mouser, but often times less expensive. They also have a Printed Circuit Board manufacturing service.

Pedal Parts Plus

Although they advertise a s a supplier for effects pedal parts, they have a selection of electronics components. They do, however, carry various stomp box enclosures and heavy duty switches for stompboxes.

Tubes and More

A source for hard to find electronic parts. As the name says it has Tubes, but also items such as reverb tanks, guitar parts and lots of various components.

Making Circuit Boards

ExpressPCB

Express PCB is a free Windows based program for designing printed circuit boards.

Making Printed Circuit Boards

Here is an excellent photo and text tutorial for making printed circuit boards. This instruction is quite straightforward, and does not require any specialized tools. Just as a note, this is not the only way to do this. The Electronotes series (listed above) contains another quicker, though less neat, method.

Making Printed Circuit Boards

Another site on making printed circuit boards. This site uses the free software ExpressPCB (lsted below) to design the board and then instructions for etching the board.

Printed Circuit Boards For The Masses

Still another method for creating your own Printed Circuit Boards. This method requires a laser printer and photo grade printer paper.

The Saltwater Etch Process

Yet another method for making your own Printed Circuit Boards. This method uses a 12 volt source and a concentrated salt water solution. I've nefer tried this, but it looks quite effective.

Making batches of circuit boards

The folks at GetLoFi have created this series of videos documenting the process they use to create the circuit boards they self. I you do decide to use their process to create your own batches of circuit boards, they do offer this warning: "be prepared to spend considerable cash on quality supplies and equipment".

Learning About Analog Synthesizer Design and Construction

Electronic Music Circuits book

This book by Barry Klein is an absolutely fantastic reference for building an analog synthesizer. It contains a wealth of circuits, as well as detailed informative text. Some of these circuits, however, require some out of production or hard to find ICs. Still, if you can't find those parts, there is still plenty to learn and do in this book.

Unfortunately, the book is out of print - BUT it appears Barrk Klein is self publishing it. The link contains information on obtaining a copy. I would email before I just placed an order.

Doepfer Music Electronics DIY Page

This page, provided by Doepfer Music Electronics, provides an excellent tutorial to analog Synthesizer design. Although it says it is for their A100 synthesizer, the information provided is much more general. It begins with information on reading schematics and progresses through simple to more involved essential synthesizer circuitry.

How To Build A Synthesizer Video Tutorial

A series of videos on building a Synthesizer by Lorin Parker. Includes videos on numerous topics including components, circuits, Construction and even interfaces.

SDIY-ARCHIVE

An archive of analog synthesizer module design articles that appeared in magazines.

Synthesis Basics

A very nice basic introduction to electronic music and synthesis.

Ten Commandments of Soldering

Ten very good tips to keep in mind while soldering. Following these will maximize the life of your soldering equipment, and allow you to make good solder joints. Note however, several of these tips apply to soldering equipment with a base station - not the less expensive plain soldering irons.

Making Brushed Aluminum Panels

A nice tutorial on how to give your faceplates that brushed aluminum look.

DIY Synthesizer Cabinet

Tutorial on building a cabinet for your synth on www.synthesizers.com.

Learning About Modular Analog Synthesis

How A VCO Works

A very good article about Voltage Controlled Oscillators. It covers the basic design and operation of a VCO, as well as many of the issues that must be addressed in designing one.

Synthesizer Boot Camp

Synthesizer Boot Camp is a set of videos that describe several basic concepts of analog synthesis. These videos do not explain how to build a synth, but they do describe techniques for shaping sound with an analog synth. They describe some fundamental concepts in a very clear and concise way.

Synthesizer.com Tutorials

Tutorials on various aspects of synthesis as well as some audio examples and a video series.

Synthesizer.com Bibliography

A bibliography of various sources for information on analog synthesis.

The Amateur Gentleman's Introduction to the Principles of Music Synthesis

A basic guide to Sound Synthesis. A very good starting point for learning about sound, and how it is synthesized, and then the conceptual model used in synthesizers.

Principles of Sound Synthesis

A little more advanced introduction to sound synthesis. Briefly discusses a variety of synthesis techniques, and introduces some of the mathematical basis of sound synthesis.

Analog Synthesis Modules

A very nice introduction to the basic analog synthesis modules and how they interact. This site contains descriptions and video tutorials on "Patching", "Voltage Controlled Oscillators" (VCO), Voltage Controlled Amplifiers" (VCA), "Envelope Generators" (EG), and "Controllers".

Ultimate Parts Storage

Trying to organize the numerous components to build an analog synth is a constant challenge. This article describes a very simple and inexpensive system to keep parts organized in 3 ring binders. Very useful!

Learning About Electronics

DIY FAQ

Although this FAQ was written with stompboxes/pedals in mind, it has a tremendous amount of information about basic electronics and especially electronic components and parts.

A Complete Course in Electronics

Here is a series of YouTube videos covering the basics of electornics. This course has you build circuits using a breadboard and various electronic components.

Electronics Tutorial

A fairly thorough text based electronics Tutorial.

All About Circuits

A multi volume series on electricity and electronics. Volumes include DC electronics, AC electronics, Semiconductors, and Digital Electronics. These books are a work in progress, so you might come across some missing information.

Freebyte's Guide to Electronics Online

A relatively large index of tutorials on many topics in electronics. Tutorials rage from General Electronics to circuit desig to robotics and more. Lots of great information.

Web Sites by People Who Build Their Own Synths

Tim Kaiser's Atomic Sonic

This site will not teach you how to build devices nor does it contain schematics. It does, however, have pictures of Tim Kaisers built and circuit bent devices - and these are some of the COOLEST LOOKING devices out there. Take a look at these for ideas on visual design, if nothing else.

Nick's World Of Synthesizers

Here you can find photos and descriptions of some very interesting and nontraditional synths.

ADACHI Tomomi

ADACHI Tomomi is a Japanese composer/performer/installation artist/poet who also builds his own synths. He has pictures of his synths which he builds in Tupperware containers. Some very nice stuff. Unfortunately no designs or schematics (yet?).

Other videos from DIY Synth Makers

Monome Video

A nice video about the Monome from the creator of the Monome.