I'm a totally rookie in this!

[Harry Bissell]

Hi David...

If you don't have much technical background, I'd start with a kit such as the PAiA
"Fatman" (www.paia.com). It is reasonably inexpensive, and has all the elements of
the classic "analog" synthesizer. I suggest "kit" because unless you have all the parts laying around, its hard to get everything cheaper. You will need a MIDI keyboard to play it from... but some cheap ones can be had for about $100 (USA).

There is also a kit called the ASM-1. It is much more "pro" level than the "Fatman" but
it is a PCB only... you must buy all the parts yourself.... and you need a control voltage keyboard, or the cheap keyboard above PLUS the MIDI Converter ($$$$). Probably much harder if you are new to this (did you say total rookie...)

Stay on this list... visit everyones web page if they have one...
Check out www.xavax.com/efm for TomG's website Electronics for Music.
Also www.synthtech.com for Paul Schreiber site "Module of the Month"

this will take all night... go to
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/4459/grey_pages/diyers.html
and just follow all the links.... (some are not up to date... but other pages will guide
you from there...)

Write back in a month or so when you finish reading... (only kidding write any time...)

H^)  harry

David Castillo wrote:

> I'm from Argentina, and I'm coursing my second year of Electronic Ingeneering. The only course that I had on something different than Algebra, Maths, Theorys of Movement, and Newton Phisycs, (all very intresting but dosn't help me to figure out how to make synths, yet) was C programming.
> I'm quite desesperated to start building something myself, but I don't know if it would be good copying some circuit without knowing anything about electronics or the electro-electronics basis of how a synth works. Here in Argentina there isn't bibliography on this subject, or if it is, I have to know what to ask for, since in the Electronic Shops the employers aren't so friendly to advice me on the matter or simply they don't.
> Beside is too difficult to get a good Analog Synth to dissasemble if you don't know if you will be able to assemble it again, and they are too expensive, that's makes me anxious to produce my own synths at a reasonable cost.
> Well, thank you all and I hope some day I will have my own company and I will create really weird stuff and I'll will able to send you the PCB's and schematics to advise me, coment or clone them!
>
> Thank you again!
>
> David