Book description
Dive hands-on into the tools, techniques, and information for making your own analog synthesizer. If you’re a musician or a hobbyist with experience in building electronic projects from kits or schematics, this do-it-yourself guide will walk you through the parts and schematics you need, and how to tailor them for your needs. Author Ray Wilson shares his decades of experience in synth-DIY.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1. What Is Synth-DIY?
- 2. Tooling Up for Building Analog Synths
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3. Analog Synthesizer Building Blocks
- Three Configurations: Normalized, Modular, and Hybrid
- Voltage Control
- The Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO)
- The Voltage-Controlled Filter (VCF)
- The Voltage-Controlled Amplifier (VCA)
- The Low-Frequency Oscillator (LFO)
- The Keyboard Controller
- The Envelope Generator (EG)
- The White Noise Generator
- The Sample and Hold (S&H)
- Audio and DC Signal Mixers
- The Ring Modulator
- The Voltage Sequencer
- Putting It All Together
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4. Make the Noise Toaster Analog Sound Synthesizer
- Noise Toaster Block Diagram
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Building the Noise Toaster
- Gathering the Parts
- The Bill of Materials (BOM)
- The Noise Toaster Printed Circuit Board (PCB)
- Populating the Noise Toaster PCB
- Making the Noise Toaster Front Panel
- Making the Noise Toaster Front Panel Legend Overlay
- Installing the Noise Toaster Front Panel Components
- Wiring the Noise Toaster Front Panel Components
- Preparing the Noise Toaster Case
- Wiring the PCB to the Front Panel
- Testing the Noise Toaster
- 5. The Incredible Op Amp
- 6. How the Noise Toaster Works
- 7. Your Electronic Music Studio
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A. A Field Guide to Op Amp Circuit Applications
- Buffers
- Comparators
- Signal Mixing
- Simple but Useful Op Amp Oscillators
- Digital-to-Analog Conversion Using Binarily Weighted Resistors or the R/2R Resistor Ladder
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Light Up Your Synth with LEDs
- The Simplest Way to Light an LED
- Isolating the LED Control Source with a Transistor (I)
- Isolating the LED Control Source with a Transistor (II)
- Isolating the LED Control Source with a CD40106 Inverter (I)
- Isolating the LED Control Source with a CD40106 Inverter (II)
- Light an LED Using a Comparator (I)
- Light an LED Using a Comparator (II)
- B. The LM13700
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C. Working with CMOS Logic Chips
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Logic Chips in Synth-DIY
- CD4013 Dual D Flip-Flop
- CD4011 Quad Two-Input NAND Gate
- CD4001 Quad Two-Input NOR Gate
- CD4066 Quad Analog Switch
- CD4024 Seven-Stage Ripple Carry Binary Counter
- CD4042 Quad D Latch
- CD4094 Eight-Stage Shift Register
- CD40193 Binary Up/Down Counter
- CD4514 4-Bit Latch/4-to-16 Line Decoder
- CD4017 Decade Counter with 10 Decoded Outputs
- CD4067 Single 16-Channel Multiplexer/Demuliplexer
- CD40106 Hex Inverting Schmitt Trigger
- CD40106 Square Wave Oscillator
- CD40106 Pulse Wave Oscillator
- CD40106 Multiple-Input NAND Gate
- CD40106 Multiple-Input NOR Gate
- CD40106 Positive Edge to Negative-Going Pulse
- CD40106 Negative Edge to Positive-Going Pulse
- CD40106 Narrow Pulse Stretcher
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Logic Chips in Synth-DIY
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Make: Analog Synthesizers
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2013
- Publisher(s): Make: Community
- ISBN: 9781449345228
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