Hmmm...Thomas Henry has vanished

[Steve Varner]

I have the book "Build a better music synthesizer" by Henry. I agree about the
chips being expensive and scarce, but I find the book very useful in that he
gives the clearest instructions I've read on building 19" rack panels, wiring
the modules, hooking everything together, and generally setting up a DIY
synth. Some of the modules do not use specialty chips and are interesting
modules.

Steve Varner
varner at k-online.com

BJ wrote:

> Henri Kovalainen wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Sean Costello wrote:
> > > BTW, "Electronic Music Circuits: The Reprints" is a very nice little
> > > book. It reprints many of the articles that were the basis for Henry's
> > > excellent book "Build a Better Music Synthesizer," which was actually
> > > published by the infamous TAB books. And wasn't Barry Klein's book
> > > originally on TAB?
> >
> >  I would like to emphasize that the book is really useful *only if* you
> >  have a source/money/time for all those CEMs and SSMs. Just about every
> >  circuit in Henry's book uses them... I mean, come on, an ADSR eg that
> >  utilizes a specific ADSR chip? Wouldn't have needed a book to built this
> >  type of stuff, rather a data sheet. So, if you don't want to use a crap
> >  load of custom chips, the book is a big disapponitment.
> >
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>
> May i have a word here please ladies and gentlemen!
>
> Anyone can infact buy all the shematics and building descriptions
> for the A100 system from Doepfer for approx 75 usd!
>
> It contain all of the modules, approx 600 to 700 pages!
>
> BJ