{"id":237,"date":"2008-05-10T01:15:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T05:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/?p=237"},"modified":"2008-05-10T01:15:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T05:15:26","slug":"gonna-be-a-synth-diy-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2008\/05\/gonna-be-a-synth-diy-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonna be a Synth-DIY Summer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a bunch of projects I&#8217;m either going to do or make an attempt at doing, anyway:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MFOS Sound Lab Mini Synth PLUS -\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got the PCBs and a number of the components on hand. Most of the rest of the components are enroute. I&#8217;m going to try a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geofex.com\/circuits\/+9_to_-9.htm\">MAX1044-based power supply<\/a>, since a) I&#8217;d like to avoid batteries and b) I dislike most normal bipolar power supplies. We&#8217;ll see how that goes.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Box of Tricks&#8221; &#8211; A take on fitting as much modular-like goodness into a cigar box as possible. Still mostly in the conceptual phase- I&#8217;m trying to determine what modules will go in, and making design considerations (banana jacks vs. 1\/4&#8243; vs. nails-and-alligator-clips, mostly). This will probably warrant a future post when I make some more decisions.<\/li>\n<li>A CV\/Gate sequencer &#8211; probably an 8-step version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midiwall.com\/gear\/babyseq\/\">Baby 10<\/a>. Maybe with some &#8220;extras&#8221; (start\/stop, internal and external clock, other features?)<\/li>\n<li>A very likely project when the above are finished is the <a href=\"http:\/\/mypeoplepc.com\/members\/scottnoanh\/birthofasynth\/id22.html\">Thomas Henry SN Voice<\/a>. My wife had one of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miniorgan.com\/lib\/view.php?miniorgan=31&amp;srch=&amp;srch_type=&amp;sortby=1&amp;output=35\">Remco Sound fx Machines<\/a> as a kid (based on the same IC) and I&#8217;ve got the IC sitting in another box (a Midwest Analog Snare+) that I&#8217;m not using.<\/li>\n<li>Some kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/ucapps.de\">MIDIbox SID<\/a>? I&#8217;ve got a 6581 in my parts bin just waiting to get used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Somewhere in the middle of that, I&#8217;m going to do some repairs as well &#8211; my MG-1 needs at least two sliders replaced (and I have the replacements, so it&#8217;s mostly scheduling at this point), and I&#8217;ve got a couple of things that need <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewmartens.com\/blog\/?p=6\">rubber keypad repair<\/a> (probably the MMT-8 in general, and the RY10&#8217;s BD1 key for certain).<\/p>\n<p>Some poking around on Electronic Goldmine&#8217;s site last night revealed a couple of chips with possibilities for future projects as well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldmine-elec-products.com\/prodinfo.asp?number=A11116\">YMZ284-D<\/a> has some potential for something.  And datasheets are out there.<\/li>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xs4all.nl\/~samzen\/synth\/synth.html#texas\">TMS3477-based sampler<\/a> looks intriguing, but since there&#8217;s no schematic and no datasheet, I&#8217;m thinking no dice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My plate is full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a bunch of projects I&#8217;m either going to do or make an attempt at doing, anyway: MFOS Sound Lab Mini Synth PLUS -\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got the PCBs and a number of the components on hand. Most of the rest of the components are enroute. I&#8217;m going to try&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2008\/05\/gonna-be-a-synth-diy-summer\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-projects","tag-synthdiy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}