Marsynth has announced that its Work Shop Board A ‘diy-oriented’ synth is now available
The “Work Shop Board A” is a quad square-wave oscillator board that is completely self contained on a single PCB.
Although simple in design and assembly, the WSB-A’s voicing architecture offers a network of ring modulators and frequency synchronizations that interconnect the four oscillators in ‘a web of glorious noise’. The addition of a dedicated photocell for each oscillator’s pitch expands the range of the synth.
The WSB-A will be available as both a kit and as a fully assembled unit. The initial run is of assembled units for $60.
Here’s an audio demo:
See the Marsynth site for details.
I assume these sorts of synths are mostly for creating samples? At least that’s the way I’d use it. Though it would be tempting to make noise.
where is the midi jack?
A few of these linked up would make an awesome drone.
i applaud the effort, but a noisy synth isn’t exactly hard to make, why not work on making a 60 dollar synth that sounds like a 2000 dollar one, that would be much more useful,
well, you can’t. That’s why they cost 2000 dollars. Timers and CMOS chips are not stable enough to create decent non-noise synth, and they put out only square waves as default. Also, this terrible noise is appealing to some, including me.
here is a free eurorack faceplate for this
http://www.modulargrid.net/e/other-unknown-fsk1138-diy-marsynth-wsb-a
cheers