Design your own waveform synths?

[Christian Oncken]

> 
> > Actually, to do this you can do one of at least two things.  One, download
> > a program called "Smorphi".  It allows you to draw your own waveforms and
> > play around with them.  Two, a program called "Goldwave" allows you to
> > directly edit the samples that make up a .wav file.  Just make a tiny .wav
> > file (like 100 samples), direct-edit the waveform to your heart's content
> 

Well, I've talked about this before, but I think its worth mentioning 
again.  A super cheap way to do this is to get a amiga 500 computer... I 
had one given to me by a guy who found it at a garage sale for $10.  Get 
a program called octamed and go to town.  Its a mod tracker that lets you 
sequence samples, but its also much more...  You can draw a waveform with 
the mouse, and if you redraw the waveform while its playing the sound 
changes in real time.  Once you've got a bunch of waves drawn it lets 
you sequence them into a single sound... you tell it how many cycles of 
each wave and at what volume and it plays them back.  Then you can take 
that sound and sequence it at different pitches in the mod tracker 
portion of the program.  Its lots of fun to mess around with, and it 
syncs to midi clock if you can find a midi adapter.

Sure its digital, and not exactly DIY, but its a cheap, fun little box.   
Keeps me entertained for hours at a time. 

Christian Oncken.