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

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

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.

you are still the awsomest dude

is there a full parts list anywhere?

@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.

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

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

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

he is the material our old groundbreaking inventors were, he is this multitalent bringing engineering and invention skills with music on top, i am amazed every video and have big respect to his genius.

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

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!

I wonder how much sleep he gets in a given week.

The rest of the functions would be moving to quick to show much. But just add transistor buffers

If you're in the Uk or Europe, get them from Thonk.

this is what I was getting at, & thank goodness... from the thonk site: "These are BRAND NEW chips, this is the real thing as manufactured by Curtis Electromusic with the full blessing of the late Doug Curtis’s family. These are not clones.

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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. 😎

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!

@@-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.

🤔Agree

🤔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! 😆

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

No digital shit please

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

Now there is a giant to stand on when design your own synth.

Search cem3340 datasheet

I do mention that 👍

lol I know my music teacher would love this project