2014 Build Pictures

[elmegil]

Wow, fast work! Very nice....

[PHOBoS]

I turned a motor from an old printer into a rotary encoder
more info here.

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[AlanP]

So, who wants a sequencer? This uses Fonik's Baby Ten schematic.



'Tis working, gate, step selector, push buttons and all. Did a spot of troubleshooting (had two 100k resistors where I needed 10k), but other than that putting the switches in the board/panel was the most annoying part. Just waiting on knobs from Erthenvar now, but other than that it's all done.

I was never hugely happy with my first Bany Ten sequencer layout, but I'm very happy with this one. No wires, nice and clean, slightly smaller panel. This time, you can easily turn the knobs with your fingers

[Skrog Productions]

That looks great Alan,
minimal signal path to the pots is the key to less noise & hum , esp. in audio delay FX circuits, nice module

Dave.

[harrymatic]

Finally got around to finishing my PAiA Fatman

I cheated and bought a pre-built one from eBay for about £100 - would have cost me nearly double that to import the kit from the US though. Final build cost for the entire thing was about £150.

The case is solid cherry and I laser cut the panel from 5mm acrylic. Keyboard guts are from an old Roland controller. The sound is fantastic, really nice filter and the ability to assign the keyboard velocity to the VCF and/or the VCA is especially useful.

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[AlanP]

That Fatman is hugely impressive. I take it you infilled? I've come across pedal builds where plastic was lasercut -- on the back side (mirrored), through a layer of paint.

[harrymatic]

Thanks for the comment.

I didn't need to infill the plastic, as acrylic tends to go white when its laser engraved - showing up very nicely against the black background.

[kkissinger]

Oh, I enjoy this thread.

And I am aching to build again -- I am in the process of moving and all my DIY stuff is packed up.

One of my first projects (once I get settled) will be to build a synthesizer that I can travel with that can do most of music that I have done on the most recent streaming broadcasts but in a pre-patched, easy-to-set-up-on-stage format.

Anyway, there is a lot of building that I want to do and this thread is a real inspiration.

[elmegil]

My last build:

[sonicwarrior]

Embarrassingly this is my first finished project in 2014 and my goal is 12 finished projects.

MOTM-480 with resonance distortion trimmer mod:

[isak]

Hi All

it took me 2 years to finish this amazing project!




























contains:
2 X ARP2600 VCO's, board Design by Theff from EM
2 X VCF's - Steiner Parker and ARP4072 by Yusynth.
1 X VCF by MFOS for SINE subosc.
1 X white and pink Noise by Yusnth.
1 X SubOsc by Roland SH101 (my PCB design)
1 X Dual Glide by Yusnth
1 X Gate to Trig by CGS modded by Sebo from EM.
2 X ENV by Roland Sys100 board design by Rick Holt AKA FrequencyCentral.
1 X LFO by MFOS
1 X VC-LFO by Yusynth.
1 X VCA by Thomas Henry
1 X Mixer by Yusnth
1 X 12AU7 Tube Preamp by Mick Bailey from DIYStompboxes, modded by me.
1 X ACX FREAKING AMAZING MIDI2CV! the Code is modded specially for me for this project by Dmitry Shtatnov.
1 X Power Supply by MFOS


i want to thanks all the people that supported me along the way.
to all the brilliant modules designers!
DIY is rocking and pumping my head out
this vid lip is in Hebrew, sorry for the non Hebrew Speakers.
yet again, sound is international language.
please post here if you have any questions/comments .

Enjoy watching the vid as i enjoyed making this amazing synth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bFmo1gOCac

cheers,
Isak E.

[Skrog Productions]

Nice work Isak .

super panel you have made , the sub thickens out the vco waves nicely .

That's a chunky motherboard heatsink & fan , do you find you get much heat generated ? ,

Great synth

Dave.

[isak]

[dave the butcher]

what a coool synth!

[Benjamin AM]

I finished a modular earlier this year. The cabinet is repurposed from an old Wurlitzer organ that someone was throwing out. The two project boxes are also repurposed. They are a spring reverb and a VC delay.
List of modules:
-Top-
Custom VCO based around ARP 2600 core discrete design and waveshapers x3
Thomas Henry VC Noise
Yusynth ARP Filter
Yusynth Steiner Filter V.2
Audio Mixer
Thomas Henry VCA
Yusynth VCA
GS65 Tube VCA
Yusynth Panning Mixer
-Bottom-
Yusynth Standards
Custom S&H/G&H/Yusynth Ring Modulator
Custom Utility module comparator/gate bus
Yusynth ADSR
MFOS ADSR
Thomas Henry Blinking Lights Fonik outputs
Electric Druid Tap Tempo LFO x2
CV Mixer
Attenuators
Appendage Ribbon Controller
Power module w/ LED fader

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[isak]

Great job Benjamin!
Looks like a DIY at its best!

[PHOBoS]

looks and sounds great isak but what's the big knob on the side for ?

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Nice patch cable storage Benjamin AM (nice synth too!)

[Skrog Productions]

I LOVE the patch cable holder , help to scare away unwanted visitors to the synth. hehehe

Cool.

Dave.

[isak]

[isak]

Hi PHOBoS, as a contrast to your amazing looking synth I give you my non music related project (only cause your synth remind me an arcade machine).
Take that...







Design and built by me.
2 month of labor.
More then 2500 arcade games.
5.1 speakers (subwoofer behind the screen).
Connected to the net to play "Super Street Fighter4" worldwide
PS2 emulator inside and much much more!

Sorry PHOBoS, I had to answer your arcade synth

Cheers

[MoonBase 69]

Just my humble beginnings,

Clean lab/assembly area not always like this. Been may years since I did any from scratch audio/muzak building. Figured I'd start off with an input device picked up a couple of manuals from a friend one is Lowery the other is Hammond, don't worry it was a nasty 70's Piper altho "revolutionary" they were a horrible sounding temperamental LSI thing . Have to figure something cool to do with the black keys since they're on a separate bus. Have lots of ideas floating around just need to get time to put it all together.

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[PHOBoS]

awesome job on the MAME isak!
how did you make those side panels ?


(btw if you have any more non-music related builds you can post them here)

[isak]

[AlanP]

I wasn't hugely happy with my first Yusynth Minimoog VCF layout -- too many wires, too spread out... so I did another layout.



The panel is a pig to photograph, but it looks really good IRL, honest!



Yes, I put the TL072 in after I took the photo (too excited that it worked!)

Two sandwiched PCBs -- one jack board, one engine board, the zipties are because the pin friction is not enough to hold them together, I reckon.

[dave the butcher]

Oh i LOVE this thread, all these beautiful builds!