[sdiy] greetings / EFM sale / korg MS20 mods / soundlab minisynth

[sydoodoo]

thanks yeah i'm looking for something fairly straightforward as i've not
built anything before really, also thought another good place to start might
be the 4ms pedals tremulus, maybe the bass ace after that; anyway it sounds
cool so i'll go and order a board i reckon. also the soundlab minisynth
seems like a damn cool little thing to have a go at; anyone made one of
these?
peace
andrew

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:25:03PM +0000, sydoodoo wrote:
>> greetings all, i'm new to this list!
>> just checking the EFM website and they still got some "BassAce" boards;
>> has anyone built one or used one? recommended?
> 
> Like most EFM products, the bassace board has a few faults that need to be
> corrected.  Nothing really major.  I'm actually in the middle of reworking
> mine a bit.  One nice thing about the bassace is it really is just a VCO,
> VFO, and VCA module put on one board, so its insanely easy to look at the
> schematic and bring all the patch points out.  I'm doing patch points that
> will normalize to normal bassace operation, but will also let me patch in a
> pair of VCO4D's that I have finally assembled.
> 
> I'm kinda thinking it'll be like a Prodigy with 3 oscillators, which is
> kinda cool.
> 
> In any case, if you got the bassace board from him, also order the tempco.
> Everything else is easy to source.  I dont know how much building experience
> you have, if you are looking for something a bit easier to assemble but
> still dont mind sourcing your own parts, check out the Tomcat.  All on one
> board, real real easy to assemble.  If TomG made up front panels and a good
> assembly manual I really think it'd be the Preferred First DIY synth over
> the Fatman...