Thanks Jonathan!<br><br>I won't be able to make it tonight but plan on making it for the 16th. I'm very interested in seeing what other people are working on.<br><br>Simone, Alex:<br>Starting seems to first involve some degree of planning: how big of a synth would you want to build. That dictates how big of a case and power supply you need to either build or purchase.<br>
<br>Then for each step after that you have the option to build it (with plans for free and/or PCBs available for purchase from a lot of places online) or buy it (the closest place I know of to Ottawa that sells modules or related stuff is moog audio in either Montreal or Toronto). It caters nicely to people with a wide range of skill as for each part you can either buy it off the shelf, buy it in kit form with all the components and PCB printed&drilled, or go fully DIY and plate/drill your own PCB. I think some people on this list were talking about making their own PCBs before? That's definitely a skill I want to learn. The freedom from hand-wiring circuits is very exciting.<br>
<br>I should mention that building a modular synth (or most any DIY synth) is not cheap, especially to start. Even with cutting and gluing your own case out of wood, you're probably looking at $200 before you are ready to put a module in it, and probably another $500 to get a decent synthesizer going? People who want to invest less in a synth project should check out the <a href="http://musicfromouterspace.com">musicfromouterspace.com</a> weird sound generator, or the <a href="http://musicfromouterspace.com">musicfromouterspace.com</a> soundlab mini-synth.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Tom<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Jonathan Rudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan@titanous.com">jonathan@titanous.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We're having a meeting tonight at 7PM at ArtEngine, so feel free come.<br>
It's not about synths specifically, but we talk about and work on all<br>
types of hardware and software hacking projects.<br>
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On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 15:11, Simone Pfeiffer <<a href="mailto:pfeiffe.s@gmail.com">pfeiffe.s@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
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> I have no idea how i got on this list or really have any idea what y'all are<br>
> talking about at all... but now I am curious!<br>
><br>
> So, how does one get started?<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Simone<br>
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