Links |
| This is a list of my favorite sites. This is not an exhaustive list. I'll try to check regularly that the links are not broken. |
| Florian ANWANDER | |
| Marc BAREILLE | X-ASM1 clone, Modules, Theremin, Tube analogue synth |
| Jorgen BERGFORS | An impressive hardware work ! |
| Dave BROWN | MOTM modular and other stuff |
| Jeff BROWN | AKA Guitarfool ! An impressive modular based on various kits. The man makes his own silkscreen panels ! |
| Seb FRANCIS | |
| Colin FRASER | |
| Ian FRITZ | Analogue Physical Modelling Synthesizer and Chaos generators! Very interesting circuits and infos. |
| Juergen HAIBLE | The reference in SDIY ! Original designs and awesome clones ! |
| Matthias HERMANN | The fonik modular project |
| Osamu HOSHUYAMA | Inventive circuits ! Not for beginners. |
| Dave HYLANDER | Schematics and service manuals. |
| Neil JOHNSON | |
| Scott JUSKIW | MOTM porium and some original designs |
| Andrew KILPATRICK | Build your own LASER harp and feel like Jean-Michel Jarre or Bernard Szajner... |
| Mikael MORUP | |
| Jim PATCHELL | |
| René SCHIMDTZ | A nice compilation of VCOs and modules. Check out his Tube Synth Project too. |
| Jorgen SCHIMTZ | FORMANT based modular and some weird chaos based modules |
| Roman SOWA | The polish modular synth DIYer! Nice little MIDI keyboard controllers. |
| Scott STITES | The diary of a SDIYer. Interesting, with plenty of sound clips. |
| Scott STITES II | |
| Ken STONE | A nice collection of unique and inspiring modules. Check out his Tube Synth Project too. |
| Motohiko TAKEDA | Mostly in Japanese but some pages are in English. A nice collection of schematics though. |
| Carsten TOENSMANN | Formant Pro-2000 based modular and original sequencer |
| Ricard WANDERLOF | |
| Ray WILSON | Complete schematics and PCB layouts for building a modular synth and the great MiniSoundLab. Nice design, good DIY stuff! |
| ZARKIN |
Kits & PCBs |
DISCLAIMER (usual legal crap) : the following comments are the expression of my personnal opinion. I have no commercial link with the listed companies and I cannot be held responsible for any problem you would have dealing with them. |
| Elby Design | ASM1 & ASM2 kits from aussie land |
| MOTM | A series of classical well done modules. |
| Music from outer space | Ray Wilson is now offering PCBs with full assembly instruction, great stuff ! |
| Oakley Sound System | No longer saling kits but the schematics and assembly instruction can still be purchased |
| Paia | Still there and doing well, good kits with well made assembly manuals, a place where to start |
Analogue Synthesizer Manufacturers |
DISCLAIMER (usual legal crap) : the following comments are the expression of my personnal opinion. I have no commercial link with the listed companies and I cannot be held responsible for any problem you would have dealing with them. |
| Alyseum | New belgian company offering modules |
| Analogue Solutions | Bristish synths, the patch matrix is back! |
| Analogue Systems | Bristish synths, classical stuff |
| Arturia | French company, first known for their analogue emulation softwares, now building hardware analogue synths |
| Buchla and associates | After Moog, here is the return of yet another legend the Buchla 200e ! |
| Club of the knobs | Clone maker of Moog modular clones. A complete line of modules and cabinets. |
| CMS-Synth | ARP-style synths and modules. Beautiful and dear. |
| Cyndustries | A series of not so common modules with a MODCAN look. The archives of the Synapse fanzine can be found there! |
| CWEJMAN Sound | A complete modular synth from scandinavia |
| Doepfer | German company, complete series of classical modules + some weird controllers. |
| Eowave | French company, house of the Persephone |
| MODCAN | Canadian company, complete series of classical modules. The realm of banana jacks and the superb White B series. |
| Moog Music | |
| MOS-LAB | Moog modular clone modules from France, great stuff ! |
| Mutable Instruments | French company offering kits of hybrid synths (Shruthi-1), excellent stuff, nice prices |
| Synthesizers.com | If you always dreamed of having a big Moog-like modular of your own, that's the place to visit! |
| Aries Main | Plenty of infos, schematics about the Aries modular synth |
| ARPtech 1 | Don Tillman's archive of Joachim Vergheses's site dedicated to ARP modules |
| ARPtech 2 | Oldcrow's archive of Joachim Vergheses's site dedicated to ARP modules |
| ARP resources | Don Tillman's page dedicated to ARP patents, very useful and interesting ! |
| Bluesynths | A very interesting site in German and in English full of information, pictures and sound clips for many vintage analogue synths |
| Buchla synths | History and description of Buchla synths |
| EMS official | The official site of EMS synths. Nice pictures. |
| EMS mods | Modifications to improve EMS synths. |
| EMS in Germany | Big pictures of unusual EMS models. |
| EMS vocoder | Some interesting infos about EMS vocoders. |
| Moog Archives | Complete, beautiful... THE SITE !!!! All you wanted to know about the legend. |
| Moog Modulars | Infos about Moog modulars |
| Moog resources | Don Tillman's page dedicated to Moog patents, very useful and interesting ! |
| MiniMoog | All the schematics of the Minimoog |
| Old-school sound | A great resource, infos, forums, schematics, manuals. Oh by the way, although the name of this site is english, the content is all in French, sorry about that, chaps ! |
| RSF official | Infos about the only french synthesizer builder there was. Kobol, Polykobol... Made by the Fernandez Bross themselves... |
| RSF unofficial | Infos about the Kobol, Polykobol... |
| Serge fans | A lot about Serge modulars |
| Wavemaker | A very complete site dedicated to Wavemaker synths. Pictures, brochures |