Synar(star instruments0

[Julian]

Chad Ashley Pry wrote:



>   I'm trying to get ahold of schematics and a manual for the star

> instruments Synare9 the one that looks like a flying saucer)



I've got a synare3 that I've been meaning to reverse engineer for about

2 years now!

:)


I bought 2 from from a "junk" store, AU$5 apiece. They were full of mud.
one works, the other is still "sleeping". With the working one, all I
had to do was clean it up a bit, put a new plug on the power cord and
replace a physically damaged pot, and it worked. the other one seems to
be a little bit sicker than that.



looking inside quickly now: has a 4093 (CMOS hex inverter????) and 5

LM3080's plus 19 transistors, then a pile of caps/resistors. 

it uses a small speaker as the pickup to sense when it's been hit.
Mine have mains power supplles built in, but by the looks of them, they
appear to be more recent additions, or a very late design afterthought.



It's a pretty fun unit, basically a 2 osc normalised synth with vcf and

vca, kind of novel in that osc2 can control filter cutoff. Nothing too
fancy, but you hit it on the top and then wiggle the knobs madly to get
wibbly whooshing noises. :)



sections are as follows:



Oscillator 1

	tune

	switch (off, noise, osc1)



Oscillator 2

	tune

	switch (off, slo, osc2)



Filter

	tune

	osc2

	sweep

	res

	decay



Amplifier

	decay

	vol


Would anyone on the list be interested, when I eventually (soon?!?!) get
this thing reverse engineered, to see how it's built? or is there the
schematic for this thing already on the web? (I'd hate to do all this
tedious reverse engineering if it's not necessary) But say if you're
interested, if there's a bit of interest that will definately hurry me
up.

Also, if anyone knows what they originally looked like (photos?), I'd
like to know what knobs they had (mine have bare shafts) It'd be nice to
get them both back to mint condition some day.


> Please let me

> know if you can help me out. thanks.

> 

well, it's not quite a synare9. I've never seen a synare9 in my life but
I'm guessing it's pretty close. It's even flying saucer shaped. how
about you build 2 of them, and multiply the outs. after all,
synare3*synare3=synaresynare9 !!!!!!
ha. haha. ha.ha.ha.ha.ha.ha.ha.ha. *slaps self on forehead*


julian