[sdiy] Hi everybody / starting out

[phil]

hi jean-pierre,
i built a fatman years ago, and indeed, john has valid points that i 
totally agree with, but still, i like the fatman, it allowed me to get 
my feet wet, and when finished, it is a totally contained synth that 
works.  it's not a minimoog, but for a hundred bucks what do you 
expect.  plus i found that the tech support was totally first class.  i 
had a few problems when i finished mine, and my calls were answered 
quickly.

On Aug 20, 2005, at 5:52 PM, John Blacet wrote:

The Fatman has some merits because it is a lot of stuff for the money 
and has very complete instructions.

On the downside, it is a lot of work, with panel mounted pots and lots 
of flying wires. Then there is the non-modularity of the unit. 
Expansion is a bit difficult.

This presumes that you might be interested in modular in which case 
kits from either Blacet (smaller, 1/8' jacks) or MOTM (larger, 1/4" 
jacks) are a fine choice for building from kits!

Jean-Pierre Martineau wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm new to this group as well as to synthesizer building - sort of.  
> I've made a software synthesizer (Substractive 3 oscillator per note  
> with FM, Sync, ADRS, SWF and a few delay effects. Now I feel it's  
> time to move to hardware synths. I've been wanting to do this for a  
> while and now have a house and the space to do it.
>
> I'll probably start out by building a PAIA Fatman to get my hands  
> dirty. I've read on this mailing list's FAQ (http://www.oldcrows.net/ 
> ~patchell/sdiyfaq.html) that that's probably a good way to start out,  
> but since the FAQ is unofficial and 3 years old and the answer might  
> have changed since then, I'll still ask the question: What's the best  
> kit for my first project?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jean-Pierre Martineau
> jpmartineau at jpmartineau dot com
>
>
>

-- 
Regards,
John Blacet

Blacet Research
http://www.blacet.com