Building an analog synth is a challenge, but with the [Tymkrs] protosynth, it’s easier than ever. It’s a 25-key keyboard attached to a stack of solderless breadboards to make analog synth prototyping a snap.
Earlier, [Tymkrs] acquired a whole bunch of solderless breadboards and decided to put them to use by making a component-level modular synth. The earlier incarnation tied each key on the keyboard to a few wires behind the breadboard and tied them in to a shift register so they could be read with a Propeller dev board loaded up with a Commodore SID emulator. The new version keeps the very clean through-the-back keyboard connector, but this time the [Tymkrs] are adding a few more components that add a sequencer setup and a rotary encoder.
The eventual goal for this really cool breadboard synth is to explore the world of Moogs, Arps, and other analog synths easily on a breadbaord. The [Tymkrs] have already put together a breadboard-compatible low pass and high pass filter. While there’s still a lot of work to be done to make an analog synth a reality, the [Tymkrs] are off to a great start.
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wahw. thats awesome. I’m totes making a breadboard synth!
oh wow, good idea and looks great too.
What’s with the south park characters?
That’s their logo. They also do regular podcast features.
What localroger said. They also don’t look like South Park characters, grandpa. Do you tell your kids to “stop playin’ them Marios”, too?
Great idea, but wow is that video doing a bad job in explaining what they built. The unique part, how the keyboard and breadboards are wired up isn’t touched on at all, just plugging their for sale trinkets.
Is there an article covering that build of the breadboard organ?
Ah, found it: Here’s the actual build of that breadboard synth hybrid thingie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma1m228P9kc
And if folks have more questions on the kits themselves (which pre-pcb are a cluster of wires and chaos): http://www.tymkrs.com/kits/
Cool idea, however the logo makes me want to punch myself in the eyes
Uh. Why would you want to do that to yourself over a logo?
It’s a really bad logo. His eyes demand death out of respect for the visual cortex.
http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/ is a fantastic site to go to for synth projects. It is (was last time I checked) free, and they offer very professional stuff, from front panels to PCB’s to circuits, you name it. Just TONS of stuff out there, all related to synths.