Casper Electronics DIY synth building. Part 1: Oscillators
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- The OMSynth is now available for purchase! Along with kits for this video: noise.kitchen/143-omsynth
More info here:
bastl-instruments.com/instrum...
Learn how to make a variety of simple but flexible oscillators (tone generators) using a breadboard and just a few inexpensive parts. This video has been created with newbies in mind, but should still offer some useful info and novel tricks for more experienced builders.
Get more info, schematics and drawings here:
bastl-instruments.com/support...
VIDEO #2 Sequencers HERE:
• Casper Electronics DIY...
VIDEO #3 LO-FI sampler HERE:
• Casper Electronics DIY...
MORE LINKS BELOW!!
TIMELINE:
0:20 Intro
MATERIALS
2:20 OMSynth mini lab intro
3:10 Electrical components and tools
4:30 The CD40106 hex schmitt trigger
BUILDING
5:37 Basic oscillator
THEORY
7:30 How it works
11:00 Playing with resistance
BUILDING
12:45 Controlling oscillators with light, touch and DIY resistors
16:52 Syncing oscillators to make a stepped tone generator
19:50 LFOs and interconnecting oscillators.
26:40 Combining LFO and sync
26:49 Wrappin up.
MUSIC DEMO
28:05 Party jams
29:39 Shout outs
30:05 Sleepy cat
LINKS:
Schmitt trigger info:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitt...
CD40106 hex schmitt trigger data sheet:
www.fairchildsemi.com/datashe...
Current flow vs electron flow:
www.mi.mun.ca/users/cchaulk/el...
This video was produced during an artists residency at Ljudmila Lab in June 2015 with financial support from the Slovenian Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Ljubljana's Department for Culture. The residency was part of Changing Weathers project, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Produced by: Ljudmila, Art and Science Laboratory and Projekt Atol Institute
www.ljudmila.org
www.projekt-atol.si/
www.changingweathers.net/
This. This is the video I've been hunting for ages as a DIYer. Visual, auditory, intuitive but detailed. Perfect bridge between understanding the guts and just populating a board.
+Glenn Forsythe . Awesome. Thanks. Video 2 coming soon(ish) ;)
How have I missed this? I've been looking up DIY VCO's for ages, yet this never popped up??? It's brilliant, but I'm also 8 years late. Never mind. The technique's the same, but this is so brilliantly explained. Thank you!!!
Just the right amount of show and tell, refreshingly instructional and entertaining, thank you.
Thanks!
This could be some of the most educational content on electronics I've ever seen! Love the format, love the depth of knowledge, love the show and tell.
Don't you dare ever stop making these videos. This is amazing.
you reminded me why I love electronics so much, thanks for exploring these musical systems with all of us in such a great way!
Thank you for taking the time to share these series! please keep them coming !!! super helpful for newbies getting into circuitry. Love the format as well
dude wtf .... ive been waiting for someone creative enough to help me understand electronics at a waveform sound level. i never connected the dots. been wanting to build my own
guitar pedals. ans now i want to build a synth sampler with some who knows weirdness..... thanks keep it up
This made my day!
Incredibly useful, comprehensive enough, and still very simple to follow. Thanks for explaining in some detail how the hex schmitt circuit works, it's amazing!
this is the best rescourse I have found on synth building so far! great mix of theory and practical. thanks for the info!
Can't wait for following parts. Yesterday I finished my first oscilator from 4093 and I'm really excited about the whole DIY analog synth thing. Thank you for explaining everything this well, I've learnt so much from this video.
Probably the best entry point tutorial for all synth DIY noobs !! thank you for this . :)
thanks so much. good to hear
4 years later this comment still stands.
I have been looking for exactly this type of video for a month or so now. I have wanted to build my own analog synths that take MIDI input and send audio back to my DAW and this is a perfect start. Thanks!
Absolutely BEST online DIY synth experiments!! great explanation, details with extensive materials lists and resources! You and Look-Mum . . . . ;) Rock!!
the best laymen explanation about how an oscillator works...i finnally managed to actually get what the components are doeing...tnx :)
Best explanation of oscillator sync I’ve heard. Super helpful. Im trying to build my own synth it’s been a dream of mine for a while. You are going to help me make it happen!
Cheers! That's a very nice video. Really looking forward to see the upcoming parts!
great instructional video! perfect balance between theory and demonstrations. looking forward to part two
You are our signal man! BIG thank you from Slovakia. I have no words.. This tutorial is perfect! I am new to electronics and i was like i could never do something as this. I was allways afride of " bugs " electronic parts that have more than 2 legs :D But thanks to info from you ill get how it works. Looking up for new videos and wish you all best!!!
Love this series, please keep it up! Can't wait for the next episode. Just started looking for simple approach to building something like a Baby 10.
Great stuff!! Exactly what I was looking for. Looking forward to the next part. Wonderful work. Thank you! Rolf
Brilliant tutorial on synth DIY. I don't know much about electronics, but the tiny bit I do know was enough to follow this quite easily, and I do feel inspired to try making my own synth one day as the basic workings of one is so easy.
This guy is a friggin genius.
best series on yt
Crystal clear man!! Thank you for your generosity and your effort 🙏
25 Years in synthesis and I think today I finally understand HOW the VCO is oscillating and WHY that produces sound. Theres always something more to learn underneath. Thanks Peter!
hands down one of the best videos I've ever seen
Just got my OMSynth Mini lab version 3.2. I'm in love! So super cool! Thanks Pete!
OmBotCult woohoo! Have fun ;)
wow ... Blown away so glad i found you been looking for this basic explanation. Really looking forward to more of these .Hope you plan to do more fantastic stuff .. Thanks!!
very simple, intuitive and sounds mind blowing kkkk... very hard to find nice beginners material on diy synths, thank you!, im anxious waiting for more !
+Kajahzao thanks!
Great work, I suddenly understand so much more. Thanks a lot
Thank you for all of these tutorials I'm learning so much.
Thank you for making this video. The oscillator sync trick to make the subharmonic series is great. I’m going to use that in this duduk inspired synth im working on
Great tutorial! Don't miss the crazy melon-synth-sequencer mayhem at the end!
It's a melon-atron ;-)
I really respect the passion you have...Even I wanted to make something just like this but I dont have proper knowledge...
Thank you, These videos really kept me going when I was having a hard time getting things to work. These tutorials helped me understand the logic chips necessary to build a 16 step voltage sequencer; something I thought would always remain unobtainable! Most recently I've been having fun modelling hihats using the CD40106. Four closely tuned Square waves at a relatively high frequency does a good job. Drum machine here I come!
Raccoon Eating Cacti awesome. Glad to hear these videos have helped you keep going with electronics :D
This is exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
This is the exact kind of thing I've been looking for
Loved this one please make more of this kind of informational videos would really appreciate it :D
Man I wish this happened when you were still in Troy! You've really streamlined your modules in the last few years.
Strobe lights with light sensors are cool.
This is perfect! Will share through STEIM accounts next week!
I am so excited, my woman just bought me a mini lab!
Thank you for the lesson. Really great stuff here.
Much respect!
This is a fantastic lesson. Thank you!
Been following your work for a while now - our dronelabs get a lot of use to this day. keep it up!
bless you for this
This sort of video is incredibly helpful !
Thanks a lot for this amazing tutorial ! It's working like a charm :)
Thank you! Learn so much here!
really wish I could get this DIY kit, it looks so fun! Please bring it back!
this is a fantistic resource very accessable too keep it up sir!
Outstanding!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Appreciated.
Bloody marvellous.
Odličan video! Hvala!
Quality. Thank you very much
Extremely helpful for beginners!
I giggled every time you said "Ok, let me bring my keyboard" and you slapped that piece of paper with pencil drawn keys on screen. :D
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome content, very instructionnal and still entertaining though... Great performance at the end! :D
Hi! I've folowed this video for about 7:30 then I've started to experimenting (already did seen this all but not sure I remember all)
It was a surprise:
- if I change a resistance of one Schmitt trigger (1-2) then 2nd (3-4) is kind of syncing to the 1st. I've made a simple mixer with one resistor (from pin 2) then it meets the triangle wave from pin 3 and these are mixing with a cool "notchy" wave.
- if pin 3 goes to the "meeting point" through a resistor then the wave is completely other! It makes FM on the square wave. Very interesting sound also!
I've replaced the R for 2nd schm.osc. to a LDR - it's gives cool performance :) It sounds like RM!
One important detail: I have a powerful bycicle headlight for this and... the character of the modulation also depends on it's force! I don't know why... maybe because this headlight gives a "blinking light" (controlled by PWM?), not constant.
Thanks for explaining this.
Great video, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
I think I might be your 15,000th subscriber. Watched the video, saw that you had 14.9K, Subscribed, reloaded, 15K. Congrats!
Dude. It's like you broke into my lab while I was sleeping and shot the video I was putting together. Great job. I'm using a 74HC14 hex-schmitt since I have several on hand for building MIDI-Out and MIDI-Thu circuits.
I'll go back to making my lowpass filter build video and met up with you on the flip side. Cheers!
+Meta Micro Ha! looking forward to seeing your video! Everyones got a different approach and there's always more to learn :) Would LOVE to see a simple LPF vid. Filters are almost obligatory for these square wave oscillators.
Great video! I'm very interested in beginning to make DIY synths, so I've now subscribed to your channel.
I'm definitely going to part 2 now. Jimmy Hendrix and Walter/Wendy Carlos would love this, not to mention Yorgy Legetti. Thanks.
+Joseph Nicholas It's just Wendy. Don't be a jerk.
Great demo and explanations. The step oscillator you describe at 17:00 was first described (as far as I know) as "Sound Synthesizer" in Engineer's Notebook: Integrated Circuit Applications (1980) by Forrest Mims III, implemented with a 556 (a dual 555). I like your design with a hex inverter better because you can make 3 with one chip and less discretes (caps and resistors).
Thanks man, please keep making this videos
Awesome have made some of your circuits they are great!
Thank you for this video!
Very well done video. Informative and entertaining 👌
Brilliant video.
Fantastic video thanks so much
Great video!
This is awesome! I built this, and the sequencer is next- I have all the parts! I am a high school physics teacher, and my students are going to make Atari Punks consoles, then maybe this.
huzzah! thats super cool. I wish i was building weird sound circuits in high school :D Feel free to drop me a line if you have questions or suggestions
@@bubagoo
Cool, you replied!!!! Most youtube folks seem to ignore the comments, that's cool that you acknowledged my comment, thanks!
I actually found a cool kit and bought 24 of them for my students, at around $4 each. Tech Will Save Us DIY Synth kit, which has everything except the battery- even the speaker! It uses a 556, and one of the circuits is basically the Atari Punk. Ive been building variations of the 40106 synth that you show in your video. There are so many little variations I can do with LDRs and pots, I still have not made it past that. One day I will get to the sequencer and sampler- I have all the parts, but I am still really engaged by building the 40106 oscillator over and over again.
thank you Casper!
you're welcome!
This is really great, thanks
really good stuff my friend
I'm very late to the party, but thank you so much for that! This is immensely interesting and instructive!
Great video! Thank you!
It's great to make DIY synth as a standalone device. It's not a product or a brand or a price tag anymore, cool.
But if I try imagine the simplest way to get a sound of an analogue oscillator and filter, I end up with an idea of a device with just four CV inputs: pitch, amp, filter cutoff and resonance amt.
So I set a DAW to send those values to some, say Arduino, usb interface, that will work as 4 midi cc-to-voltage converters, and that's all. All kinds of LFO -ing, ADSRs, keytracking, velocity scaling, etc. I do from within DAW.
It's 3:30 in the morning and i find your channel now! Why UA-cam why!!!
Two Forty A M here!
You wizard you! Now I owe ya!
Dude!!! You Rock!!!
Awesome video. Just bought m'self a nova drone. Casper rules!
Woo woooo. Enjoy the drone ;)
Amazing video
great videos man.. 10/10 !
Damn, this is just the best guide I found. I have a question, how can you be so cool?
thank you for video
Super cool.
~ 4:00 - I got thrown off because it sounds like you're saying "microfarads" (μF) but you're writing (nF) which are nanofarads.
I really appreciate you making this video for us. Thank you.
Super, continuez ! Explications simples avec un petit schéma pour bien comprendre... S'il n'y avait que des tutoriels comme le votre, UA-cam serait un paradis (Ça fait des jours que je cherche et les bons contenus sont noyés aux milieu des divertissements Bull shit populaires)
Merci ;)
nicely done
This is great thanks!
this is dope. ty!
i started liking this channel at the cost of liking pulse waves
rubba claymo pulse waves are so easy to make. And just add a passive filter and you’ve got smoother waves. ;)
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Love your channel
This vid helped me so much, thanks man
ArachnoHack thats great! Cheers ;) and happy building
OMG i love it ! :)