Building a DIY Modular Synthesizer 

Turned out awesome!!!

Excellent build. I did the same thing, but over a period of about 15 years, and it's still not finished. I approve of your use of 1/4" jack connections. They are reliable, rugged and not as expensive as people think if you buy them in bulk quantities!

Mate. So amazed by this! So good that there are other people in Australia that are into this. Love your work.

0:00 That first chord is so perfectly timed, I thought you sat on a synth 😂

This is awesome! Love the demo songs too!

Absolutely inspiring, this vid deserves more views! Great work mate!

Amazing DUY project!

Looks and sounds fantastic. Well done!

Great work man! Congratulations on getting it done... The effects sound fantastic too! Nice'n juicy. Awesome! Oh, and nice tunes too bro.

Love your playing on that last one. What a project man.

Well done ,a great project ,fantastic tunes as well .

Great job, congratulations on such an accomplishment!

Sounds awesome! Really liking the sound of that one.

This is so cool! Great work and inspiration!

Hearing gary's synthesizer made my day! Your whole synth is so amazing. I'm working up to a project like this, I'd just designing guitar pedals for now though. I love seeing other peoples DIY synths! Thank you so much for making this video!

Hell yeah dude, awesome work.

This looks and sounds incredible!

Awesome build! I hope I ever get even close to that! Ram also means "frame" in Swedish, quite fitting in a way :D

Outstanding work!

This rules. Great sounds, amazing project!

badass bro! 100 hours into my modular and sick builds like this keep me motivated

Congrats. This is amazing. It is a marathon to build so many and diverse modules, and you've put everything together so nicely. I got a semi modular from Arturia for my 4 years old son and I ended up playing with it more than he does, and thinking of how I could expand without spending a fortune, as ready made modules are ridiculously expensive.

Brilliant, well done

Love the synth, and cool music too.

Gotta admit I wasn't expecting much but this thing sounds killer!!!!

Wow! Good job dude!

The tuner is actually a very smart feature. Tuning the oscillators on analogue synths can be a bit of a drag. Also your music is great.

Hugh, you legend! Thank you.

Gorgeous!!!

Fantastic work, congrats! It looks bigger indoor.

Love the video! Feeling inspired to give it a go again. I've attempted to build a 3340 VCO as a starting point in the past and never quite been able to get it working.

What with the Fairlight and more recently Nina from Melbourne Instruments and now The R.A.M, Australia is giving the world some great electronic vibes. Extremely well done : )

This is sick!

Yeah dude! The unveil made me think "That looks like kosmo format", and sure enough, Sam was a big inspiration. Alright, now for the rest of the vid.

Amazing job and it sounds cool. Not as keen on the Japanese pop influenced tunes. I suspect it would do early Tangerine Dream a treat. Still its an incredible achievement. You should so get together with Donny Benet.

Great job! 👏😎👍

this is BRILLIANT! wohow!

Nice work! Greetings from tassie!

This borders on completeley normal behaviour. Fantastic.

Incredible. I love my eurorack, but the ergonomics are definitely the main drawback.

Awesome!!!

Incredible

I'm in the process of designing/building a custom Modular Synthesizer for myself, the design concept is based on the Moog System 55, and will have a total of about 44 discrete modules all connected via a common power supply, there's going to be an LCD Oscilloscope module included for viewing signals and control voltages, plus an analog 16 Step Sequencer with Vari-clock and midi tempo synch so it can be synched to the master tempo of a Daw, I'm also going to include four line outs with voltage-controllable panning so I can set it up for Quadraphonic Sound as well as stereo or Mono Sound, it will also include a Midi-To-CV Converter module and a total of 8 VCOs with several waveform outputs available.

Oh wow !! I just gotta say as an Aussie you have made me dang proud. SOOO well done, AND those tunes are brilliant !! Im a Sam fan too but your tunes are FAR better. I love the way you mixed the video with sample tunes. Im contemplating making a Kosmo sized synth as well. I notice you did everything by hand. Its puts me to shame who has a laser cutter, a cnc and a 3d printer and table saw. You have done what I have been dreaming of. BTW Im happy to do laser panel etching for you if you want. (Im in Melb) Anyhow you have a new fan despite me being 3 times older than you. Listening to your music, you get it ! I can tell.

This is deadly. I've wanted to make one for myself for a long time, the power supply always scared me off. Very cool features.

Awesome! What a great project - it looks and sounds amazing. I also have a DSO138 in my case - just for the looks 😅

For wiring the pots, switches and jacks, crimp connectors were the huge game changer for me. When soldering, I just solder 2- and 3-pin ones in place of the pot, jack or switch and can then wire them up super comfortably. Also great to be able to detach them from the board when troubleshooting. You can then perfectly measure the needed wire lengths for the sake of a cleaner cable management. Troubleshooting a module with lots of connections hard-wired to the front panel can be a real nightmare. Super great synth though!

I went through a similar path right around the start of the Pandemic also. I had just started building pedals and then I think LMNC starting making some PCBs and it took off from there. I gotta shout out two of the PCB designers Analog Output and Polykit. It's easier than ever to get PCBs fabbed now and very affordable. I've also taken a shot and designed a few of my own PCB's Kicad is entirely free. I'm about to start on the 3rd box and see If I can make some large mutable instruments stuff in there and there's a few noise bells, drums, logic modules and mutable instruments modules I want to fit in there

Awesome! Great to hear a fellow aussie too!

Bravo !

amazing

These tracks are way cool.

You are an excellent DIY Guy! ;)

Brilliant video, really nicely structured, entertaining, informative and awesome music. I enjoyed every minute of it. I started my own diy synth around the same time as you and although I’m proud of what I’ve done it’s nowhere near your achievement (yet anyway) :) I recognise quite a few of those designs. You should check out Moritz Klein too. Who’s are the drum designs? The snare in particular is great. Also the side chain module is cool, where did you find that? Glad you finally managed to get your DIY take done ;-)

Good job, mate! Greetings from Berlin :)

I cannot find the person's post any longer, but there was some lady who made stained glass Eurorack panels once upon a time.

Printing stencils for color coating with a 3D printer is an interesting idea. You can also apply thick-film paint if possible.

Love your enthusiasm, cheers from Russia

Bloody impressive. Awesome modular synth and a great video. Pretty taken with 'Demo Song 3', gave me some 'Plastic Cow' flashbacks. So .. R.A.M. mk II in about ten years?

how the fuck do you not have more views. so impressive on many levels!

I hate @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER I am tone deaf but for some reason I want to build a synthesiser Keep up the good work Sam!

*and suddenly it started to rain cats and dogs...* (after a few years of depression) "Hi, It's me again, with the waterproof version of...." *and it started raining actual cats and dogs...*

Absolutely love it! Mmmmm DUI... lol.

HOLY SHITE MATE!!!🙀 Wish I had Ur energy! The 'R.A.M.' is flippin' BITCHIN'!⚡🐏

oh hell yeh.

@3:06 yes, about $100 US. 😂 Roughly one cup of coffee. Excellent video and build!! Incredible result! I wonder how long it would take me to build this in VCV or MiRack? 🤔💻

bruh this is crazy

Instant feeling of a summoning salt video.

You'd be better off clamping the Potentiometer SHAFT (The part you're removing) when you cut the shaft to length, instead of clamping the body of the potentiometer. I learned that the hard way, because sawing the shaft off with the potentiometer body in the clamp, adds a lot of stress on the pot itself and can loosen up the entire mechanism.

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Nice work mate! What city are you in? I know it's not Sydney, 'cause it's been way too hot for a hoodie here.

damn i wanted to do the same thing around the same time as you but never actually started doing it. I should now! Btw which design are you using for midi2gate module? I will try making one soon but the designs I found available online don't have midi thru and that's a big problem for me...

Guys, how can you watch this and not hit the like button? Lazybums.

holy shit another Aussie called Hugh

Help, I’ve got a crush on

Wtf. Never saw that running light effect on the keystep. Is that factory or a hack?

what power supply do you use for the modules

Amazing! Still “building” a kosmo.

Whats the song on begining?

Are you doing DIY DUI?

I'm stupid jealous

dui synthesis

DUI

Super well made video! I melted a dick shaped scar into a finger with a soldering iron & abandoned my DIY synth dreams long ago. The dissonance from the out of tune oscillators combined with the cheerful melodies is both more-ish yet terrifying. Makes me feel paranoid about losing my house to an army of robot garden gnomes, but I'm not sure why (probably unpaid robot gnome taxes).

Maybe Behringer makes a clone and you get proper licensing right$$$!!!

Awesome work mate. I have been building up my KOSMO setup. As @Jakesheath8382 said it is great to see some aussie's into this.

the craziest part about all this is how the music you are demoing actually sounds good instead of like Most modular stuff on the internet which sounds absolutely awful

You hit that track by home at the beginning and I thought for a second you were gonna start talking about video game world records.

Looks and sounds amazing, well done!