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

[rdrake]

Andrew,

i've built one minisynth from ray and am working on a second moded version.  highly recommended, this is a lot of fun.  bought the pc boards from him, good quality.  i think it'd make a good first project, but take your time wiring the front panel--there are a lot of connections to make.  

i've also build a triwave from 3ms--interesting project (in a droney noisy sort of way), but not the same quality as ray's (mistake on the pc board, less-than-clear docs).  dunno about the tremulous, but it's a tremelo effect--will modify a sound source, but doesn't produce sound itself.

welcome, and happy soldering!

lbd

>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: sydoodoo at hotmail.com
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Sent: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:15:34
>
>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...