Rob the Fiddler

http://www.cgs.synth.net/

General blogs, resources and forums

Blogs

• Get Lofi -Bent Circuits, noise and general bit crunchy goodness
• Electro-Music - A great resource for circuits and music
• Muffs Modules - Good Forum
• Experimentalists Anonymous - Another GREAT forum
• Create Digital Music
• EM411 - Electronic Music Production, MP3’s, Live Shows, Blogs and Community
• Subtlenoisemaker
• Analogindustries
• http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/
• Panaphonic
• Benthack
• Narbotic - Arduino stuff
• Analogik
• Casper Electronics - Bent stuff…some circuits Backdoor here

DIY synth and circuit resources:

• Ray Wilsons music from outer space
• The Squarewave Parade
• SDIY
• SynthDIY
• Sowa Synth
• Music Thing
• Paper Circuits - neat looking things. Gotta try out some of these
• Ken Stones Modular CGS
• Bridechamber - DIY resources and hard to find parts
• Birth of a Synth - Lots of circuits and Thomas Henry stuff
• Fatman mods
• Juergen Haible - circuits and pcbs
• musicsynthesizer.com some links and stuff…but links are outta date
• Rene Schmitz - lots of good stuff
• In Japanese, but lots of easy ones
• A really good page with plenty of circuits from Japan - Three wave LFO sounds neat.
• Small Bear Electronics
• Lots of diy circuits in German here
• Chris’ Synth DIY Home Page A collection of circuits.
• Bugbrand
• Magic Smoke - Synths and some parts. Can get a Tempco here
• Bleep Labs - Thingamakit (good peek inside)
• Larrys DIy Synth Page - circuits and cabinets
• Nice Rack - Custom Racks
• Unusual Synth Circuits - From Japan.

Interesting circuits I would like to try:

VCOs:

• XR2206VCO.PDF - Bugbrand VCO
• CGS VCO - a link with some history
• Thomas Henery VCO
• MFOS VCO
  

VCF:

• Synthacon VCF - Looks simple enough

VCA:

• Here is a really easy looking one
• YuSynth one looks good too

LFO:

• Renes Triphase VCLFO is pretty neat
• Good page on digital LFOs from Geofex. Some I already took ideas from

Noise Generators:

Sample and Hold:

• Music from outer space.
• Super simple one here.

Envelope Generators

• Easy one in Japanese
• Morph-Lag
• Here is a good one on YuSynth

Power Supplies:

• Craigs Split Supply

DIY Stompboxes:

• Snippets - Tons of circuits for stompboxes mostly distortion
• More of above with samples
• Envelope following fuzz
• Guitar Fuzz effect
• Another collection of stompboxes
• DiscoFreqs collection of MANY stompboxes, amps and other.
• Geofex.com- Guitar Effects Oriented webpage
• Galactic fissure - simple enough
• The Tech of the Fuzz Face
• Tonepad FX pages - Lots of stuff
• Fuzz Central
• Wah Circuit with PCB (use as a filter in a modular??)
• Lots of guitar mostly circuits
• Analogman Fuzz
• Robert Keeley
• More Guitar effects
• DIY Layout Creator layouts

Scraps and pieces:

• A collection of oscillators
• More Oscillators
• A collection of oscillators and supplies Some good lf sine osc.
• Bandpass Filters
• Interesting circuit to increase aRob the Fiddler › Edit — WordPress filters Q with a diode. Not linear Ill bet.
• ACtive Filter Calculator
• More Oscillators - Actually…tons
• Single Supply Active Filters (and others)
• Yada yada sampler
• A simple sequencer
• The Baby 10 Sequencer
• EA interesting Sequencer

aronnelson.com - Pics of stompboxes

Softare:

• EagleSoft