Some guy created a 3D Open Source Hybrid Digital Analog monosynth. He called it BITBA555.



Hear how it sounds in a song> ( warning his mixing skills suck)


If you want to learn his workflow for designing synthesizers, the entire design process for this synth is laid out on his YouTube channel

Episode 000 - Introduction

Spoiler: Episode 000 - Introduction

Also, all the files (including the 3D printing files) can be found at https://github.com/syarusinsky/BITBA555

 

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Episode 001 - BITBA555 Peripheral Setup

Spoiler: Peripheral Setup

 

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Episode 002 - BITBA555 Digital Oscillator Finished

Spoiler: Digital Oscillator Finished

 

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Episode 003 - BITBA555 Analog Filter and Power Supply

Spoiler: Analog Filter and Power Supply

 

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Episode 004 - BITA555 Analog Envelope Generator and Amplifier

Spoiler: Analog Envelope Generator and Amplifier

 

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Episode 005 - BITBA555 Board Layout and Fabrication

Spoiler: Board Layout and Fabrication

 

Episode 007 - BITBA555 Enclosure Design

Spoiler: Enclosure Design

 

Thanks @The Pirate i have a feeling I’ll be ordering components again

 

As convenient and inexpensive software is, there is something special about hardware that software can't duplicate. That is the tangibleness aspect of the hardware. Building your own synth is very rewarding experience.

 

Mac AU version? Oh wait...

It must be a hell of a cool experience to make a hardware synth...

 

I haven’t built hardware since the 90’s, what would be rewarding is if I remember everything I think I’ve forgotten.

 

My theory is that the less integrated a circuit is the more "analogue" it sounds. So basically an oscillator made from just transistors and other basic components is gonna sound different from an oscillator on a chip. But making an entire synth from components like that is expensive, time consuming and the resulting synth would be HUGE. But I had an idea. I'm going to build a synth similar to Sylenth1 where everything that generates/modifies sound is real hardware (basic logic gates, transistors, capacitors etc) but in order to save time and most importantly, space, all the controls are gonna be coming from a raspberry pi. I'm still waiting for the components tho. once there here, I'm gonna makea separate thread documenting progress