If you are into DIY electronic music, percussion synthesisers (*) synthesisers (*) , hardware sequencers, etc, then you will probably have come across references to Thomas Henry’s designs: VCOs (VCO-1), VCF (Mankato), SN-VOICE, etc..
Thomas Henry is often mentioned on electro-music.com, CGS-Synth (Yahoo group), Music From Outer Space (MFOS) and “Muff Wigglers” forum (Yes, I know..)
What you probably don’t know is that Thomas Henry is also the author of several books on the subject, and that they are available (NEW) from AMAZON.COM..
I’m getting back into Synthesiser electronics. (Anyone remember Retro.Teknik / Synteknik ?
That was me, buying, fixing and selling music electronics.. went on for a few years, before I changed jobs, and lost my Monday (Later Tuesday) night “tinker-time” slot.)
This time around, I’ll be doing two things:
Fixing up the remaining stuff in my garage
Building synths etc from scratch..
I’ve just had a bit of a lucky break, in that I bought two keyboard assemblies and a pedalboard assembly cheaply on eBay, so that’ll help. They’re from an old Lowery organ. (They’ve just arrived – Woo Hoo!)
I plan to use one of them (cut down to 37 keys) to sort out my MiniKorg 700, and the other will be used to build a new synth. The pedalboard will be used to build a “bass-synth”. It’s been suggested that I aim for the Moog Taurus approach or even the ARP AXXE.. I don’t expect it to be anywhere near as flash as that..
The “Remaining Stuff In My Garage” includes:
Crumar Stratus
MiniKorg 700 (NOT S)
Maestro Rhythm Jester (Drum Machine)
JSH SD-1 (Percussion Synth)
I’ve just managed to gain access to my old Retro.Teknik Tripod site. Bloody hell. That’s a blast from the past.
Finally, no doubt I’ll be jabbering about this kind of stuff over at Dubsounds as well..
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