Building A Whole Analog Synthesizer voice From Start To Finish On Breadboard

Building DIY ANALOG SYNTHESIZER FROM START TO FINISH
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[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

I forget to say cem3340 you may find pricy. It's an umbrella term I used for any 3340 you can get cheap knock offs like as3340 which will work the same

[@DetroitMicroSound]

For some reason, I really need to see you cover Bauhaus's A God in an Alcove 😉

[@zerstaerker]

It's like a Behringer-kind-of-thing but for curtis chips. :D Such a great move to make them affordable and DIP/DIL packaged.

[@freewheelburning8834]

you are still the awsomest dude

[@uki7094]

is there a full parts list anywhere?

[@paulj0557tonehead]

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER The CA3080 or LM3080 is another 8-pin Operational Transconductance Amplifier. See an excellent article on the *CA3080 OTA in Internet Archives- Radio Electronics magazine May 1988 pages 63-68.* I happened to recall seeing it a couple years ago when looking through 4-5 issues of the magazine I'd kept from my early 20's). *The new 35 dollar DONNER LAX COMP ( Ebay Donner direct) is a rock stable compressor designed around the great UNIVERSAL AUDIO 1176 COMRESSOR/LIMITER circuit and the LAX COMP uses a LM3080 OTA* as the center of the circuit. I popped mine open and it's surface mount LM3080, 3 transistors and about 50 other discrete components. This pedal is a sleeper online not even a deep dive demo. Donner doesn't even mention Universal Audio UA1176, but if you look close on the LAX COMP "1176" is cryptically placed in the logo. It's a sweet product. Nice blue and silver Metal case. Sound wise it's really good! Has a smooth gain boost, a treble boost toggle sw, the LIMIT increases clean headroom. And it really has a nice 1970's UA1176 studio compressor sound! No breathing response. I bet you could cut an album with half a dozen of these strewn throughout your various mixers inputs.

[@shawnturner7836]

Dude.. you're fucking awesome. You don't have to go in depth teaching and pushing people to build their own electronics, yet you do. I for one, appreciate the gesture, especially in times where I have all but given up on humanity. I just wanted to say thanks, whether you see this or not. Thank you sir.

[@theothertonydutch]

He did it before. The avalanch drone synth thing he built is also a great example of a synth you can build at home.

[@ctaberedwards]

I'm with you. I so appreciate people like this.

[@infn8loopmusic]

Humans are overrated! Come join us out in Zeta Reticuli 👋👽🛸

[@lordflatworm]

This is the best. It’s hard to find a good tutorial for someone who has a decent grasp of electronics but isn’t an electrical engineer. This is true DIY stuff.

[@zemkluth9427]

Sam, you are one of a kind. You inspire us and we all of us look forward every day for a new video from you. I only wish I had Arduinos 30 years ago when I was your age - I was a tinkerer just like you. But the level of tools you have to work with now is nothing short of amazing. In my time, using a 555 to make some LEDs flash was a major accomplishment!

[@TheOleHermit]

Welcome to the club, Sir! I only became familiar with Arduino upon retirement in 2015. Then, I became like a kid in an MCU candy store, buying one each of Arduino clones, ESP32s, Raspberry Pi's, & clones. Yes, these little plug & play devices have been game changers, enabling any electronic project to be possible. Now, as an old Laserium laserist, I'm developing my own personal laser system for the living room. 😜 You're only as old as your mind feels. Just keep exercising it before you lose it. 😎

[@-r-495]

AtMEGA asm was a thing about 20 years ago, but there has been an enormous push to open up the toolchains and hundreds of thousands of minds are keeping projects up to date and coming out with new ideas. LEDs have come far too, blue used to be very expensive. One of a kind - fully agree!

[@KarldorisLambley]

@@-r-495 i remeber replacing the green and red leds in my amiga 500 with the fashionable new blue ones in about 1992. They cost about a fiver each, when the other colours (apart from white, of course) cost pennies.

[@joonglegamer9898]

You blew me away completely with this video. It not only shows how to do it, but how capable you really are. You could literally make a much more advanced analog synth or probably any synth with your skillset, you clearly know your stuff.

[@ivandee4011]

Sam, this has to be the best, most comprehensive demonstration of actually putting a synth-device together that I’ve ever seen! I would HIGHLY recommend this video to anyone wanting to attempt this endeavour. Marvellous!!

[@perrymattes4285]

Sam thank you for making electronics cool again. So much has gone to micro processors these days.

[@AileTheAlien]

🤔I actually prefer micros for a lot of stuff (when implemented well), to save on wiring time, and make them all standard and less error-prone. (Like the computers in construction equipment I worked on for a few years.) The way I'd want to have a synth, is just knobs with tiny network-chips all fed directly over common wires to a screen/computer. Or maybe a screen is worse than just more knobs and flips, to control everything. I've only got a USB/MIDI keyboard this summer, and last played a non-synth instrument in high-school, so maybe this is all just horrible UX that would be awkward to play! 😆

[@Nopp3]

Great work. The schematic popups with arrows point to the component greatly clarifies when you explain. Thank you for the work and effort.

[@AdamTheAd-vanc3d]

Nice to see Sam. Great to see you inspiring to build and learn at the same time. Not too complex just enough to draw you in and want you to go further. Fantastic .

[@jonkruth4157]

Hey bro do you have maybe a list of all these komponets ? That would be very nice ? PLEASE !?

[@KarldorisLambley]

I have found this video so useful. . i only started learning about electronics a few months ago, and the first thing i did after buying an oscilloscope was make square wave generators, last week i asked chatGPT how a synth works. since then i have making 555 and 7047 astable vibrators and playing with them, using my ancient function generator and op amps. it has been fun, and really alarmed my dogs. but this vid is exactly what i needed.

[@KanalFrump]

Sam, you're a fantastic teacher. You cover so many filter and synth design subjects with practical and purposeful considerations clearly explained. Hoping you'll some day write a textbook on the subject.

[@jkuebler89]

Hell ya. Back to basics. There's a beauty in sloggin it out on the breadboard.

[@simonhopkins3867]

Wow I really appreciate this. You put quite a lot of time editing this ❤️👍🏻

[@zemkluth9427]

If I'm not mistaken, Sam uses a video editing service to do the grunt work of video editing.

[@soulflower8687]

Your through hole breadboarded rush job monosynth sounds noticeably better than many brand name boutique SMD monosynths that other people took years to design and build. I very much agree with your minimalist, leave-some-things-to-chance philosophy. Of course, this is not really a rush job synth but demonstrates all the years of experience you have got under your belt up to this point. Fantastic job.

[@BristlyBright]

One of your best videos so far, and you have done a lot of good videos!!!!

[@woosix7735]

It's really enlightening to see how one would approach creating a more complex synth out of simpler building blocks! Really cool! DIY for the win!

[@ke9tv]

Moiritz Klein works his magic on an 808-style kick drum, and Sam releases _this_... on the same day? The world conspires to make sure Kevin doesn't get any work done! Thanks, Sam, this is brilliant! 20:00 or so - I clip the collector lead if I'm going to [ab]use a B-E junction as an avalanche diode, since it ruins the transistor for any other purpose. (Measure h_FE before and after!) 40:00 or so Why does nobody use the linearisation diodes on the LM11700? I know you don't want that if you're overdriving one as a sine shaper or something, but it looks as if the synth people just ignore that part of the circuit.

[@Xoferif]

Really enjoyed following along with that! Love the use of Lego base plates to mount the breadboards, too. 👍

[@nutsnproud6932]

Sam thanks for the video I never knew how an analogue synth works.

[@AnalogDude_]

26:45 a better solution would be to use the non inverting pin and instead to sticking it to GND use a trimmer between GND and +/-12V and the wiper to the non inv.... pin. and freely move the wave form around or a voltage div.

[@xntricity6446]

🤔Agree

[@dtharmo]

An ultra advanced noise toaster ! Love it ! Inspirational as usual, thanks for sharing this kind of sessions, you don't realize the benefits you give to the world. Keep the vibe on

[@yyams]

Further to my request for schematics.... I've found a few but the additions and selections of the schematics of other things make things very hard to compile.... I'm sure anyone looking to complete this project would LOVE a project page devoted just to this synth, with one schematic to rule them all per module. Thanks for the vid, and I (and many others) would be even more grateful to have a proper project page for this little beast. It looks like the perfect first analog synth project and I'm sure will be very popular.

[@EclipseAtDusk]

I’m super fascinated by both this synth voice project, and this Groovebox idea you mentioned

[@andrejwalilko634]

this is exactly what i was looking for like a year ago! thank you!

[@nenasadie]

Wow, that's so cool, and I was able to follow a great majority of it. You do a really good job of showing and teaching. Love the sounds that were coming out at the end. Thanks! 🙂

[@robbiekavanagh2802]

Absolute champion. Absolute champion.

[@deadlinermusic]

Amazing. Sam, keep being you. Enjoyed this so much.

[@thomasoakley1565]

This is awesome! Excellent "first project" to try out.

[@jimtron66]

Fascinating! Full on energy describing the functions of the circuit and how different components affect the results. Good stuff!

[@petegreenwood2793]

Great video Sam! Really enjoyed visiting the museum a couple of weekends back - thoroughly recommend it to everyone!!

[@TheZanger]

Thx Sam!! This tickles my brain into doing some breadboarding for some new stuff.

[@miagames4159]

I breadboard guitar pedals before I design/order PCBs. I did a ben eater 8 bit computer as my first breadboard project. WOW! Came across your channel looking for diy electronics. Im in my mid 50s and grew up on NWOBHM and was never interested in synth. Started to play guitar at 14. Love your channel. Not a fan of your music style but I can appreciate your passion of combining 2 very different hobbies, music and electronics. I was just measuring my... ahem "LAB", to see if I have room for a euro rack. :)

[@alexandrumihaibudes3852]

🎉Build videos are our favorite! Really appreciate them and are highly inspirational. Your videos are the reason I started building my own modules, knowing almost nothing at the beginning about electronics.

[@blackmoofou6385]

Fantastic Video absolutely fascinating and your enthusiasm for your projects is infectious. You've inspired me so much over the last couole of years so big thank you dude!

[@fetaldreamcore]

I appreciate the spirit of this video. The repair and build vids are very interesting.

[@mateuszdziworski1224]

Sam You are a true inspiration. Im following you since 8 step sequencer arduino video - that stuff opened my mind. Keep it up!

[@padders1068]

Sam you are a mad electronics genius! Thanks for teaching and sharing!

[@dcallan812]

A really interesting idea. It just shows what you DONT need to make music with an analog synth.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

😂

[@dlock2k]

Sam, this is an amazing video! Thank you! This is such a great teaching video, dude.

[@MM-ib6qh]

Wow, this is so great, really. Thank you for taking so much time to share and educate! Love this stuff.

[@blister4walken]

Great video and well explained build. It helped me understand a little more about how my synths make their wibbly wobbly noises. Worth all your effort to put this together. Nice one 😀

[@paavo8323]

This is one of the best of your tutorials. Blimey, it's probably one of the best synth building tutorials on KZbin, at least for types who'd rather skip all or most of the theory.

[@lorencarlin2087]

This boy is just amazing! He has created so many incredible things. I watch a lot of his vids and I am nearly always gobsmacked! Keep going dude! I appreciate your efforts so much!

[@TehSyneS]

thank you so much for sharing this!! learned alot watching.

[@Five2nd]

Have been a fan of your vids for so long and you just keep on getting better. This is an amazing video. Would really like to try my hand at following along. Is there somewhere I can find a parts list for this project?

[@iluvyunie]

This is so cool, I know what I'm doing on my holidays from EE

[@NafElectronics]

Priceless!! And so easy to build. Thanks for making synths so easy to understand =D

[@kioshiki4519]

This is awesome, I'm certainly going to watch this fully and eventually make stuff again myself. You explained a point well I'd not heard or read a better explanation of anyway else. That's how to read schematics when lines from multiple pins on an IC connect through to ground. Now it makes sense to me.

[@Colin_Ames]

Excellent. This is probably the first time I have watched a 90 minute YT video in one sitting. Couldn’t put down the iPad. I have just started my foray into electronic music by designing a PCB for the Atari Punk console (not difficult, but one has to start somewhere), and have built three of them for my great-grandsons. I would love to see their faces when they get them, but they live 2000 miles away. This synth would make a good second project.

[@CausticCatastrophe]

I am very excited to see this! Imagine boxing this up as a fun gift idea!

[@nenasadie]

lol I know my music teacher would love this project

[@northtustinsteamworks5172]

Amazing build all in one 90 minute video!!!

[@kodyjbosch1]

Friend, you are Incredible. Such a Giving person while being the embodiment of Cool and Style. I watched the whole video over a period of a few days. I learned a lot and am super inspired to try some breadboard / deadbug projects. I've been thinking for a while to start with the Atari Punk design you put out some time ago. Amazing what a person can do with a power supply, a handful of ICs, resistors, capacitors, etc. Very Cool! actually the definition of Cool!

[@electricdawn2258]

Hey, you basically got a Mini-DFAM going. :D Very nice! Thanks for keeping on illuminating us, it is really appreciated! 👍

[@stighelmer1265]

The Lego tech is something else. Love it.

[@noewacreativemusic6794]

many thanks mate for the video, huge help to kickstart me making my first synth...keep on the great work!

[@jdkoftinoff]

I love this so much. Great work!!!!

[@mastercylinder1939]

Brilliant Sam, thanks for that.

[@RSchef]

THIS is soooo great!

[@MalifickSatyrino]

Always an inspiration good sir!

[@garywallace1938]

This is gold!! Thank you sooooo much!

[@BiemexBmXBG]

Man, you're my hero!

[@sendarium]

I have a dream to build analog synthesizer and you inspired me to start do!!

[@aboriteko]

marvelous, Much thanks.

[@Breakbeats92.5]

Populating a breadboard might seem complex but parts manufacturers in the last 15 years have made things like this incredibly easy. It's worth mentioning however that one false move may result in malfunction or no function at all so just be sure to follow instructions with strict precision.

[@genghisbunny]

A lot of this was over my head, but I thoroughly enjoyed it regardless.

[@garygranato9164]

at the end when he first started playing it reminded me of the original flash gordon film. brilliant project and good video, nice one

[@danhat606]

BEYOND FASINATED!

[@Dr_Ohm]

That's just brilliant!

[@chrishahn3834]

I wish I understood this more to take advantage. Trying to learn this stuff at 39. lol I'll save this video for later. Thanks, Sam.

[@sawsquaresinetube]

This is awesome Sam! I saw the clips on Patreon. I will be watching this whole vid as s😅😅n as I can 😊

[@luvdattek]

You catched me with this one !!! If ever some of my teachers where like you !

[@woosix7735]

I built the ms20 filter from your strip board layout, and a cool trick you can do with it is play with the volume of the input signal: if it's full volume then the resonance is very distorted and at lower volumes the resonance is very clean, and obviously you can go anywhere in the middle.

[@catandtheostrich]

Nice. Always a highlight.

[@fathomisticfantasy2681]

If its worth anything... It got me unstuck. Fabulous videos.

[@jenyjek5055]

Nice vid! I like synths and this is FIREEE. thx

[@DarioMoog]

Very inspiring!

[@AUTOKAPUTT]

Crazy dude Genius ❤❤❤

[@youdonotknowmyname9663]

Nice, love me some LM13700s ...

[@Soulmachine72]

Great stuff Sam 🙂👍🎹😎 I would love to see this synth in a music store near me some day 🌷

[@whoisme678]

Clever man 👍

[@AnalogDude_]

Try to couple 2 x CD74HC374 to form a 15/16 bit address pin setup to a Arduino to make a programmer for AT28C256/512 eprom. It will enable you to build a 8 bit wave table and more. so with a 8 bit port from the Arduino you can double it to 16 bit with the 2 74HC374 CMOS Logic Octal D-Type Flip-Flop using the clock pin and later the OE of both to one pin on the Arduino to pump 15/16 bits to address the eprom than another 8 bit port for the data into eprom. Easy peasy as you would say.

[@Kalumbatsch]

No digital shit please

[@AnalogDude_]

@@Kalumbatsch you can manilupate these chips analog, like they did in the Roland tr-909, tr-707. but you have to program them digital.

[@weapea]

Thanks, now i must do this 🤷🏻‍♂️ I allready have these tuned voice chips from old italian organ.. when i put 9 v to it there is sound, there are 6 sounds in one chip.. so ill use these in this project.

[@Taliesin6]

Now i know were those dutch hard house producers from the late 90's got their samples from! So many of the sounds at the end brought back memories lol.

[@pierreminvielle]

Amazing

[@jonkruth4157]

you are awesome and very cool

[@YuriyKrivosheyev]

Great! Thanx!

[@SomeLowerLight]

Schematics seem way less daunting when you build them out step by step instead of trying to explain everything after you've built it. I hope to one day build my own rig someday. Cheers!

[@donniesmidway]

Dude if you show how to make an analog synth on Patreon I’ll subscribe for sure. I’m loving your videos. You’re very smart and creative man. Very inspiring. Magic tinker archetypes

[@DetroitMicroSound]

Sounds better than good!

[@JonMurray]

Ah thanks so much dude! I really want to learn to make a basic synth so I can learn synthesis from the inside out and to see what you can do and how far you can go with building a synth yourself! Thanks man :)

[@mhoppy6639]

Me too ! I’d love to build one of my own. I’m going to enjoy this 🎉

[@zemkluth9427]

You hit the jackpot, Jon. Sam has dozens of videos detailing the design and building of his Kosmo synth modules, which I think sound vastly superior to anything besides the biggest Oberheims. You can just follow along and build it all yourself!

[@axwanotherxworld9995]

Beatiful! I think a PCB could be cool too. Any plan to get it somewhere?

[@Mr_Spegru]

Fantastic

[@unholyaudiochannel]

Ok - This is awesome, might have a crack at this as I've just made a baby 8 sequencer....

[@wmoecke]

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER you should consider writing a book. Something in the lines of "Build Your Own Analog Synthesizer"/"Synthesizer Cookbook"/"Understanding Synthesizers' Bits And Pieces".

[@wmoecke]

Another interesting idea, would be to release a set of PCBs - one for the synthesizer and another to act as a front panel to carry the potentiometers and switch. It could end up as a nicely-done cigar-box synth kit.

[@ZElTGElST]

Sounds great but the signal is a bit too hot and it distorts all over the place. It needs some taming before the filter or the VCA, maybe both. That said, it rocks and its so full of character. Sam is doing a winner here. I would love to get a PCB when its ready

[@e7yu]

This will be fun. 😄

[@Crashid3D]

awesome! Can we have a song of it? Maybe some chiptune - I'd guess that'd fit the taste of most of your audience.

[@Shmiraa]

Matt Bellamy should watch this hahah he may like it. It reminds me a lot to his unique guitar

[@argumentchannel]

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