[sdiy] Get this a lot, you probably do

[mailing gigaspeeds]

Depends what you want... you want to make music ? or you want to learn 
for you're education etc..
I'm just starting out as well but I'm a musician and had a lot of synth 
experience, I wanted to make a modular to get the real analogue 70's 
feeling :-) and use it in my projects.

What you'll basically need as a basic setup :

** Regulated Power supply that gives +15v / -15v (for MOTM synths) or 
+12v, 5v, -12v for the eurorack modules
VCO (you're cv source)
Midi to cv (if you want to play it with a keyboard)
a VCA (voltage controller amp)
VCF (voltage controlled filter)
ADSR/envelope generator (attack , delay, sustain, release module)
nice to haves : VCLFO and 2-3 VCO's (gives a lot more punch to you're 
sound) .

Don't forget front panels, they're quite expensive... they are other 
methods to make it of course (drill holes in aluminium and put a printed 
decal on it)...

It also depends a lot on the budget and where you're situated....

a good article that helped me to find my way in the modular maze is the 
article you'll find in the 2009 April edition --> Which modular to 
choose (or something like that), you can buy it in pdf for 1.5£ .

have fun !
You can mail me in private, I will gladly help you out, I also have a 
company and have a lot of electronic parts stocked (maybe i'll open an 
sdiy webshop this year)

cheers
Benjamin

Walker Shurlds wrote:
> Hi guys, I'm new here.
>
> Never built any synthesis equipment before, closest thing is some mods
> for guitar pedals.  Recently added "build a fully functional modular
> synthesizer from scratch" to my bucket list.  I'm a BSEE undergrad (got
> about a year left) so I know more than the average noob, on paper at
> least, most likely not in practice.
>
> Anyone want to suggest me a first project?
>
> I'm under the impression that anything I build will be useless without
> a CV source, so really I mean a first project that's a CV source and
> another first project that's some form of oscillator.
>
> (Also going out of town today, gonna read replies on... the 28th?)
>
> Thanks bunches!
>
> Walker Shurlds
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