[sdiy] History of SDIY?

[David G Dixon]

I would say that, for the current generation of synth DIYers, Ray Wilson is
infinitely more important than John Simonton.

When I was 12 (back in 1977), a neighbor kid bought a PAiA Gnome kit, and we
tried to put it together.  My dad was a ham radio guy, so he had some
electronics gear in our basement, and I had made some simple crystal radios
and such.  I remember the documentation for the kit being almost impossible
to follow.  Specifically, I remember there being something about all the
transistors being oriented the wrong way in the schematic.  Long story
short, we never did get that Gnome kit to work, and I gave up on synth DIY
(even though I was obsessed with synthesizers).

Fast forward to 2008, when I discovered Music From Outer Space on the
internet.  Decent circuits, great explanations, and before long I was making
my own gizmos in my garage.  A couple of years later I was designing synth
modules professionally.  It's all because of the excellent start I got from
Ray Wilson (RIP).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org] On 
> Behalf Of Gordonjcp
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2018 1:17 PM
> To: synth-diy at synth-diy.org
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] History of SDIY?
> 
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 01:42:05PM -0500, Quincas Moreira wrote:
> > I'll add Yves Usson, Ray Wilson and Ken Stone!
> 
> They're the New Wave Upstarts, surely? :-D
> 
> Have we had Tom Gambles yet?  He's maybe a little more 
> oldschool than them.
> 
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