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Make: Electronic Music from Scratch
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Make: Electronic Music from Scratch

by Kirk Pearson
August 2024
Beginner to intermediate
366 pages
11h 58m
English
Make: Community
Content preview from Make: Electronic Music from Scratch
Musical Inovation: The Pasive Voice
Artist: Jonathan Freitheim
About: From the artist: “A sound I like with breadboard synths is the moment you disconnect the battery.
You might get a pop, a hiss, sometimes a little flutter or a floop. Unexpected! Uncontrollable! Fun! My
experiments after that were dead simple: ‘What happens if I replace the 9 V battery with control voltage
from another synth I already own?’”
A way to start is to breadboard a super-basic 4093 oscillator circuit, make sure it sounds all right,
and then remove the battery. Next, connect the cable tip from a CV source to plus and the cable sleeve
to minus. Try it with an LFO, a ...
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