I have no idea what pushes you to make such high quality tutorial, it took you days of work, and months of previous studies and experience to get this level, to simply offer us few hours of tutorial. I have no idea what pushes you to do such thing, but I feel deeply grateful and I would consider Patreon for sure. Thank you so much
Forget making a synth, this is a fantastic intro to electronics. You've made me understand concepts that never made sense in the 7years I've been learning.
as an electronics engineer I must say this is the best introduction to DIY electronics I've seen so far! congratulations, you just earned a new subscriber.
If anyone feels like they’re attention is drifting, or that the theory is so new that the info doesn’t stick, just keep watching and trust the process. This is the best oscillator tutorial on the internet. Your well on your way to your 40106 addiction 😂
@@urnoob5528 I tried a 74LS14 and had problems starting the oscillation, it didn't source enough current for my component values. I tried a 74HC14 and it worked. Grounding leftover inputs is a MUST with the sensitive CMOS inputs in 74HC.
This is the best introduction into electronics I got yet!!! Thank you very much! While watching, I had to resist putting more and more electronic parts in to the shopping basket and carrying my old oscilloscope (never used before) from the basement🙈
The balloon analogy that actually demonstrates how no current flows through the capacitor is awesome. The capacitor = “a battery” analogy has never really worked well for me so this was awesome, thank you!
Actually in your analogy the quantity of water stored in the capacitor would be the charge, not the capacitance. Your video is very instructive nonetheless!
@@naught101 No, I was confused about this corner of electronics for a long time. I visualized batteries as just a big store of electrons that you could use up. If that were the case, then as soon as you hooked up a battery to a circuit, there would be a giant voltage, a huge zap, and everything would get fried as that huge pile of electrons pushed apart from each other and went to ground. Instead, batteries are electron *pumps*. They take in electrons from one terminal and push them "uphill" to go back out of the other terminal. They use chemicals to provide the energy needed to that. The "electro-motive force" describes how "hard" that pump is able to push to drive current and is why you have batteries of different voltages. In a pnuematic analogy, think of batteries as chemically-powered fans.
This is probably the best Applied Learning example for basic electronics on the web. Moritz's basic explanation of electrical component function and circuit design are clear and engaging. Even if you are not interested synths or EDM, the stepwise process he describes to generate and shape a waveform by building a circuit all while monitoring progress with an oscilloscope and audio is invaluable. For those who want to go deeper (i.e. how does a schmitt trigger inverter work), I recommend Code by Petzold, but for most I think this will be all you need to get started in electronics.
You could also configure an Op-amp as a schmitt trigger to reduce the number of main ICs...adding more resisters but we all have a bunch of those already right! Electronoob has a good schmitt trigger equivalent op-amp example: ruclips.net/video/d-7Oyd8o8hE/видео.html&ab_channel=Electronoobs
Each component and where it is used: Breadboard - 13:16 40106 Schmitt Trigger Inverter IC - 13:16 1N4148 Signal Diode - 13:25 2.2nF Foil Capacitor - 13:43 100kΩ Resistor #1 - 14:06 9-15V Power Supply #1 - 14:14 9-15V Power Supply #2 - 19:24 TL074 Op-Amp Buffer IC - 19:24 1μF Foil Capacitor - 23:19 100kΩ Resistor #2 - 23:19 100kΩ Resistors #3 and #4 (see note below) - 26:18 Audio Jack - 26:39 Note: In the beginning of the next video, he replaces the resistors used at 26:18 with 10kΩ resistors, so these should actually be 10kΩ resistors.
Great job, this kind of entry-level electronics audio videos are suprisingly scarce, thanks for this!!
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Came for the oscillator, stayed for the fantastic electronic concepts analogies. This is the best AC Coupling explanation ever. The way you explained WHY this effectively centers the signal, with the ballon capacitor analogy. It clicked for me. Well done! Thank you!
I've heard a saying that the better you understand something, the more simply you can explain it. I have no doubt that you possess an incredibly deep understanding of electronics and the concepts involved. This video is so very helpful and easy to grasp.
MORE OF THIS PLEASE. I've been spinning my wheels for months trying to apply electrical theory to practical circuit building (for synths) and found few tutorials that help explain how electricity actually flows through a circuit. Thank you.
yes! there's this assumption that I can just look at a schematic and follow what the electricity is actually going to do... this level of explanation is fantastically useful.
Please be careful when using a breadboard. It will create frequencies that will enter your body and cause damage. Wrap either the breadboard or your body in tinfoil to block out the frequencies. You must be careful with frequencies.
The water model is a very good model to explain the idea behind electrical components. I just want to warn your audience though, when doing audio stuff we must be aware that around wires and every components, there's a electric and magnetic field which have influence on other parts of the circuit and can be influenced by. Because audio signal are by nature like alternative current, sometime this can have impact on the output, like weird hums and hissing. The water model doesn't modelize that without some tweaks... That said, for a beginner, this model is perfect, and sometime better than what some teachers actually do in an physic class. You explained it very well. Good job!
Best description of ac coupling ever! You rarely see someone going into what exactly the cap and resistor are doing for the network. This level of abstraction is absolutely ACE for someone like me!
THE PRICE OF SYNTHS SHALL HOLD US DOWN NO MORE!!! I can’t tell you how much i want to give you a hug man, thank you so much. I’m going out to buy components tomorrow!!! 😁🙏💕✨
I am troubleshooting a Schmitt Trigger Synthesizer that I built from a popular internet design. What you have taught me, here, will really help with finding the bugs in my circuit. So, a very timely video, for me. Thank you!
This is beautiful. I’m not an electrician, but these analogies and the way you’re teaching is on par with my college physics classes. You should be proud.
Bravo! I’ve been a computer scientist and electronics tinkerer for nearly 2 decades. Electrical engineering was my least favorite class. I learned more in these videos than I did in the last two decades. Thank you for putting this together. Now, off to build my VCO!
Final year Mechatronic Engineering student here (We take a lot of Electrical modules), and I must say this is a fantastic intro into electronics I found myself getting a great intuitive understanding of a lot of the circuits I've been working with for the last 4 years. And as someone who's also interested in synths this is a gold mine!
This is pure gold. Thanks a lot, you explained things so nicely and easely that I expect a lot of people - me included - to start building DIY synths from scratch.
I'm so happy to have luckily stumbled upon your videos man. It's been my very first look into what is electricity and how do we manipulate it and your explanations were exactly as thorough as I needed them to be. Thank you.
Greatest video on electronics that I've ever seen. I've been tinkering with this stuff for years, yet cannot seem to grasp what is really happening in a circuit. Thank you so much, this is a big, big help!
There are two types of teachers: those who says "look how it's simple" and those who says "look how smart I am". Thank you for showing us how simple it is.
Your explanations are absolutely genius. I've seen the water analogies before, but this takes it to the level of actual electrical circuit analysis is so many situations. WOW. Thank you.
I’m just getting back into electronics again after taking a GCSE in it 22 years ago. I want to build my own synth and properly understand what is going on and this video series is perfect! Thank you SO much! Keep up the great work!
your explanations are very well paced. My biggest issue with youtube videos that are explaining complex topics is that trying to grasp them in realtime with the video, so that I can have said knowledge to build off of later in the video, can be exceptionally hard as some creators just breeze through it without pacing in a way that I can ponder for a second and intuit what is being explained. well done, great video
Awesome video,dude you helped me so much. Thank you. I have a reading disability, so I can read about what you did over and over and can't understand it at all. The way you just showed it in this video. Is amazing,I understand it all, everything you talked about. Now I can understand what they was saying in the books I'm reading. At least I know what there saying about the things you showed. Thank you so much 👍👍👍
probably one of the best videos i have ever watched on youtube, your explanations, analogies and the diagrams (lofi enough to be cool but relevant enough to be useful ) are outstanding. For the love of god dont stop making good content and finding ways to explain electronics to people.....subscribed
Welcome to The Dark Side, or the center of gEEk. Civil engineers build targets. Mechanical engineers make weapons. Electrical engineers make RADAR and guidance for both. Seriously, EEs learn math and systems theory that applies broadly and pairs well with other degrees you may consider. Enjoy an evolving career.
finally got some sound out of my buffer! I was all backwards... then I literally hit space bar trying to stop the high pitch like I'm in a DAW! Thank you for laying it out clearly for the rookies!
2:10 if you're able to accurately simplify any subject in such a way that most people can understand it, thats a sign you're doing really good keep up the good work 👍
This was insanely helpful, thank you! When I was following basic oscillator circuit schematics the last time I got as far as getting a square wave and while trying to turn it into a triangle wave I accidentally fried the Opamp because I got confused and mixed up the 0 and -9V cables 🤦♀️ Which of course happened because I didn’t quite understand the circuit. I feel like I’m finally starting to get it now with your balloon analogy. Please continue making these!
So many "OH SHIT I GET IT" moments in this video. Your explanations are so perfectly clear it's insane, thank you ! One question : if i have a power supply with +12 -12v, i can connect the output of the breadboard directly into a eurorack modular without problem right ?
Yes you can. Two things are necessary: 1. one wire carries the the output signal of the breadboard (Tip of the mono audio jack) 2. The second wire connects the ground potential of your breadboard and eurorack (sleeve of the mono audio jack). The ground in your case should be between +12V and -12V (reference ground, 0V). In the end of the video it is the brown white line connecting the power supply to the breadboard, and the black line connecting the breadboard and eurorack. Reasoning for the breadboard ground between the two supply voltages: Lets say the eurorack uses a signal between +5V and -5V for input. If you connect the -12V on the breadboard with the eurorack ground you can only send a signal between 0V and 24 V . (24V is the voltage difference between -12V and +12V) If you use the 0V on the breadboard as ground you can send a signal between -12V and +12V. Limit the output below the allowed maximal input voltage. TLDR: Just watch out that the negative supply voltage is is not the ground you connect to the eurorack.
This is by far the most intuitive explanation I've seen for these concepts, and watching it is clearing up a LOT of things I've really been struggling with - thank you!
really helpful explanations on dealing with dual rail power design, DC offset and buffering. I was doing some synth circuits long ago and got stuck on that part. its neat seeing you build this one piece at a time and using the oscilloscope and watch things break or work after each step.
This is a very significant video. You've done a great service to the world. Personally I wouldn't take the flow analogies so far, and would try to build intuition in terms of electrons etc. But that's just personal preference. Nonwithstanding that, this is a near flawlessly executed intuitive explanation of electronics, which is a rare thing to find at all, and probably the first to achieve such an explanation in so little time. Bravo.
this kind of persons like Moritz make posible the 3third revolution. Now i understand concepts that are not anymore abstracts. I feel so happy to find this. Please keep doing this!!! from argentina
LOVE LOVE LOVE this series. You are like the Morgan Freeman of diy synth tutors. I would love to see more vids from you, on just about anything as long as you were teaching.
Subscribed so hard. Its hard to find so much good information in one place, there are so many vids and tutorials that cover little isolated bits, and you really have to prowl around through books and other tutorials to get the same amount of info. I wish I could have seen this 5 years ago when I started!
Thank you for this ! I built the Thomas Henry " Clangora". hi hat module years ago from scratch. I t was painting by numbers . I have a much clearer understanding of circuit behavior. Fantastic lesson !
This is a superb educational tool. A lot more information here than just whipping up an oscillator! You are a great teacher, thank you for putting this together so well.
Your explanations are extremely good! Whenever I have to explain something about electricity to somebody I also use the water analogy, but you do it in such a detail, that's really amazing. Way to go!
You are amazing, your explanations using the water analogy constantly throughout made this something that I can finally understand. Please never stop making videos as good as this.
This is an excellent explanation of coupling capacitors. I sorta knew intellectually that they removed DC bias, but I didn't really get the how or the why before. Thanks! I'm hoping to learn enough from this series and others to design and build my own analogue synth from parts I've already collected over the years, so every bit of theory is very helpful.
I had subscribed just by seeing a snapshot of this presentation besides DIY Synth VCO. I was just treated with a clear cut explanation in basic electronics. Vielen Danke Moritz, diesen videos sehr wichtig sind!
The oscillator sounds so good that the daydreaming I’ve been doing over the sound of your oscillator has had me missing out on all the subsequent learning. So I’ll have my Eureka moments at your expense when I watch your video again. It will likely be while I build your oscillator, and consequently I’ll miss out on a lot more next time I watch it too!! THANKS AND CONGRATULATIONS, you’ve found a niche here!!
You are a genius teacher. There is something ridiculously unfair about the world that someone can be famous for looking like a horse, when you have done this amazing piece of work without anywhere near enough fanfare. But well done!
thank you, perfect for starters like me - I am starting to understand things a lot more, before it all had no meaning - you have added the "mechanics of electronics" which others do not seem to do
Finally! I've been feeling exactly what you talked about at the beginning of the video. There was no intermediate level of oscillator construction, but now there is! Thank you so much for this!
Thanks for doing this! Been building other people's designs but want make my own now so trying to really understand the basics well. This video is very helpful! Great job
Wow thank you! This video perfectly illustrates how basic circuits come together. I've always had to try really hard to understand analog circuits, but you have really opened my mind.
OP amps, buffers, DC decoupling all explained in a very well defined analogy. good stuff, love the drawings too. great for a beginner or someone who needs to brush up on discrete analog signal path.
i am studying circuits analysis in my engineering degree right now so i already understood the electronics concepts you explained yet you explained them really well congrats! i loved this video and all of your videos, my goal after finishing the degree is to work designing music production gear and i love this type of content! keep it up!
You have a fantastic way of explaining things and I had so many "lightbulb" moments watching this! Especially when you explained how the components work individually and then together. Liked and subbed
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love people who put great content online. Appreciate it.
tremedous channel here. absolutely amazing how good the whole thing is explained here. 1000 dank dir und mach weiter, moritz. scahue seit 2 tagen nichts anderes als deine videos!! much love and support from munich
Been looking to build a synth for ages but as you say either to simple or to complex for beginner. This is really handy and I will be starting afresh on my project.
Looking forward to building one when I get home. My partner and I are doing electronics together as a fun couples activity and it's nice to get a chance to build something that actually does something fun like make sound.
This is amazing so well thought out and easy to understand. I've been throwing myself straight into the deep end without properly understanding the basics but you ask the same questions as me and answer them really well. Thank you so much for this series!!
You fucking insane, came here to learn how to make a synth and ended up watching the best explanations about basic electronics i've ever heard, props to this man keep it up
Moritz, your sketches and drawings are very clear and illustrate very well what you mean in the video. In fact, you could write a publication on the subject using them!
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I have no idea what pushes you to make such high quality tutorial, it took you days of work, and months of previous studies and experience to get this level, to simply offer us few hours of tutorial. I have no idea what pushes you to do such thing, but I feel deeply grateful and I would consider Patreon for sure. Thank you so much
> I have no idea what pushes you t
You could ask!
Interest and burning passion for what he does.
Because its cool!
Forget making a synth, this is a fantastic intro to electronics. You've made me understand concepts that never made sense in the 7years I've been learning.
100% agreed, thank you so much!
Es verdad
HA! I can't recall a better explanation. Excellent work Moritz.
No kidding, I remember some of these concepts seeming so counterintuitive to me in my physics classes but this made things quite simple.
Completely agree. Subscribed for that reason.
as an electronics engineer I must say this is the best introduction to DIY electronics I've seen so far! congratulations, you just earned a new subscriber.
If anyone feels like they’re attention is drifting, or that the theory is so new that the info doesn’t stick, just keep watching and trust the process. This is the best oscillator tutorial on the internet. Your well on your way to your 40106 addiction 😂
wat bout 7414
This is just a masterpiece of content from a Master.
@@urnoob5528 I tried a 74LS14 and had problems starting the oscillation, it didn't source enough current for my component values. I tried a 74HC14 and it worked. Grounding leftover inputs is a MUST with the sensitive CMOS inputs in 74HC.
This is the best introduction into electronics I got yet!!! Thank you very much! While watching, I had to resist putting more and more electronic parts in to the shopping basket and carrying my old oscilloscope (never used before) from the basement🙈
I have needed something like this for years. have my children.
The balloon analogy that actually demonstrates how no current flows through the capacitor is awesome. The capacitor = “a battery” analogy has never really worked well for me so this was awesome, thank you!
yeah i had that click for me while making this video actually. it's a really helpful insight!
@@MoritzKlein0 yep me too! great video
A battery is a bit like a balloon too, no? Just a different way of actually storing the energy.
Actually in your analogy the quantity of water stored in the capacitor would be the charge, not the capacitance. Your video is very instructive nonetheless!
@@naught101 No, I was confused about this corner of electronics for a long time. I visualized batteries as just a big store of electrons that you could use up. If that were the case, then as soon as you hooked up a battery to a circuit, there would be a giant voltage, a huge zap, and everything would get fried as that huge pile of electrons pushed apart from each other and went to ground.
Instead, batteries are electron *pumps*. They take in electrons from one terminal and push them "uphill" to go back out of the other terminal. They use chemicals to provide the energy needed to that. The "electro-motive force" describes how "hard" that pump is able to push to drive current and is why you have batteries of different voltages.
In a pnuematic analogy, think of batteries as chemically-powered fans.
This is probably the best Applied Learning example for basic electronics on the web. Moritz's basic explanation of electrical component function and circuit design are clear and engaging. Even if you are not interested synths or EDM, the stepwise process he describes to generate and shape a waveform by building a circuit all while monitoring progress with an oscilloscope and audio is invaluable. For those who want to go deeper (i.e. how does a schmitt trigger inverter work), I recommend Code by Petzold, but for most I think this will be all you need to get started in electronics.
You could also configure an Op-amp as a schmitt trigger to reduce the number of main ICs...adding more resisters but we all have a bunch of those already right! Electronoob has a good schmitt trigger equivalent op-amp example: ruclips.net/video/d-7Oyd8o8hE/видео.html&ab_channel=Electronoobs
Each component and where it is used:
Breadboard - 13:16
40106 Schmitt Trigger Inverter IC - 13:16
1N4148 Signal Diode - 13:25
2.2nF Foil Capacitor - 13:43
100kΩ Resistor #1 - 14:06
9-15V Power Supply #1 - 14:14
9-15V Power Supply #2 - 19:24
TL074 Op-Amp Buffer IC - 19:24
1μF Foil Capacitor - 23:19
100kΩ Resistor #2 - 23:19
100kΩ Resistors #3 and #4 (see note below) - 26:18
Audio Jack - 26:39
Note: In the beginning of the next video, he replaces the resistors used at 26:18 with 10kΩ resistors, so these should actually be 10kΩ resistors.
Thank you !
Great job, this kind of entry-level electronics audio videos are suprisingly scarce, thanks for this!!
Came for the oscillator, stayed for the fantastic electronic concepts analogies. This is the best AC Coupling explanation ever. The way you explained WHY this effectively centers the signal, with the ballon capacitor analogy. It clicked for me. Well done! Thank you!
As a lapsed electrical engineer I'm impressed with your delivery almost to the point of getting back into it
i think you should do it ⚡️
I've heard a saying that the better you understand something, the more simply you can explain it. I have no doubt that you possess an incredibly deep understanding of electronics and the concepts involved. This video is so very helpful and easy to grasp.
MORE OF THIS PLEASE. I've been spinning my wheels for months trying to apply electrical theory to practical circuit building (for synths) and found few tutorials that help explain how electricity actually flows through a circuit. Thank you.
exactly the reason why i started doing these videos. glad i can help!
yes! there's this assumption that I can just look at a schematic and follow what the electricity is actually going to do... this level of explanation is fantastically useful.
Super stuff, completely agree! Everything makes a whole more sense!
Yes. Thanks so much for doing this series!
Please be careful when using a breadboard. It will create frequencies that will enter your body and cause damage.
Wrap either the breadboard or your body in tinfoil to block out the frequencies. You must be careful with frequencies.
The water model is a very good model to explain the idea behind electrical components.
I just want to warn your audience though, when doing audio stuff we must be aware that around wires and every components, there's a electric and magnetic field which have influence on other parts of the circuit and can be influenced by. Because audio signal are by nature like alternative current, sometime this can have impact on the output, like weird hums and hissing. The water model doesn't modelize that without some tweaks...
That said, for a beginner, this model is perfect, and sometime better than what some teachers actually do in an physic class. You explained it very well. Good job!
In half an hour you just gave me a better idea of how electricity works than an entire semester of college, from the bottom of my heart thank you.
Best description of ac coupling ever! You rarely see someone going into what exactly the cap and resistor are doing for the network. This level of abstraction is absolutely ACE for someone like me!
Congratulations - you’ve just taken me from electronic zero to dangerous in a single video.
Extremely educational and entertaining content!
I always like knowing just enough to dangerous.
this is a gem, finally something that actually teaches the basics of electronics well
THE PRICE OF SYNTHS SHALL HOLD US DOWN NO MORE!!! I can’t tell you how much i want to give you a hug man, thank you so much. I’m going out to buy components tomorrow!!! 😁🙏💕✨
I am troubleshooting a Schmitt Trigger Synthesizer that I built from a popular internet design. What you have taught me, here, will really help with finding the bugs in my circuit. So, a very timely video, for me. Thank you!
Just wow. This the best introduction to electricity/water-pipes analogy. With a real pretty complex examples to build intuition. Pure gold.
Finally somebody is intuitive enough to explain things that appealed complicated to me in way that completely makes sense in my mind. Thank you!
This is beautiful. I’m not an electrician, but these analogies and the way you’re teaching is on par with my college physics classes. You should be proud.
Bravo! I’ve been a computer scientist and electronics tinkerer for nearly 2 decades. Electrical engineering was my least favorite class. I learned more in these videos than I did in the last two decades. Thank you for putting this together. Now, off to build my VCO!
Final year Mechatronic Engineering student here (We take a lot of Electrical modules), and I must say this is a fantastic intro into electronics I found myself getting a great intuitive understanding of a lot of the circuits I've been working with for the last 4 years. And as someone who's also interested in synths this is a gold mine!
This is pure gold. Thanks a lot, you explained things so nicely and easely that I expect a lot of people - me included - to start building DIY synths from scratch.
I'm so happy to have luckily stumbled upon your videos man. It's been my very first look into what is electricity and how do we manipulate it and your explanations were exactly as thorough as I needed them to be.
Thank you.
glad to hear 🙏
After studying electrotechnics for years I really enjoy the water analogy. This is a real good Explanation :)
Best tutorial on anything I’ve ever seen. Also, I’m a college professor.
Greatest video on electronics that I've ever seen. I've been tinkering with this stuff for years, yet cannot seem to grasp what is really happening in a circuit. Thank you so much, this is a big, big help!
This has got to be the greatest electronics 101 intro that I've ever watched. Fantastic!
There are two types of teachers: those who says "look how it's simple" and those who says "look how smart I am". Thank you for showing us how simple it is.
One can simplify like this way only who himself knows it thoroughly and have an art of teaching. Very nice !
Your explanations are absolutely genius. I've seen the water analogies before, but this takes it to the level of actual electrical circuit analysis is so many situations. WOW. Thank you.
This is the best, most comprehensive water pipe analogy I've yet seen. You explain and demonstrate it really well!
I’m just getting back into electronics again after taking a GCSE in it 22 years ago. I want to build my own synth and properly understand what is going on and this video series is perfect! Thank you SO much! Keep up the great work!
Die beste Erklärung für die Arbeitsweise eines Kondensators, die ich gesehen habe. Der junge Mann hat Talent.
your explanations are very well paced. My biggest issue with youtube videos that are explaining complex topics is that trying to grasp them in realtime with the video, so that I can have said knowledge to build off of later in the video, can be exceptionally hard as some creators just breeze through it without pacing in a way that I can ponder for a second and intuit what is being explained. well done, great video
You are a fantastic teacher ... please add more videos
Awesome video,dude you helped me so much. Thank you. I have a reading disability, so I can read about what you did over and over and can't understand it at all. The way you just showed it in this video. Is amazing,I understand it all, everything you talked about. Now I can understand what they was saying in the books I'm reading. At least I know what there saying about the things you showed.
Thank you so much 👍👍👍
This is the best analogy of electricity to water I've ever seen. Great video! Thank you!
probably one of the best videos i have ever watched on youtube, your explanations, analogies and the diagrams (lofi enough to be cool but relevant enough to be useful ) are outstanding. For the love of god dont stop making good content and finding ways to explain electronics to people.....subscribed
Nicely explained, The frequency of the oscillator at the end matched my tinnitus.
The only real reason I'm taking electrical engineering. Brilliant work
Welcome to The Dark Side, or the center of gEEk. Civil engineers build targets. Mechanical engineers make weapons. Electrical engineers make RADAR and guidance for both. Seriously, EEs learn math and systems theory that applies broadly and pairs well with other degrees you may consider. Enjoy an evolving career.
finally got some sound out of my buffer! I was all backwards... then I literally hit space bar trying to stop the high pitch like I'm in a DAW! Thank you for laying it out clearly for the rookies!
ha! damn mind-controlling computer boxes
I love these DIY synth videos! I have watched the whole series at least twice and am ordering components now to build my own.
2:10 if you're able to accurately simplify any subject in such a way that most people can understand it, thats a sign you're doing really good keep up the good work 👍
Well put together and easy to understand. You make it easy to follow using the pipe examples. Looking forward to more of these👍🏻💪🏻
this is awesome! i was just starting the process of researching and getting into electronics for the first time for audio reasons , perfect.....
This was insanely helpful, thank you! When I was following basic oscillator circuit schematics the last time I got as far as getting a square wave and while trying to turn it into a triangle wave I accidentally fried the Opamp because I got confused and mixed up the 0 and -9V cables 🤦♀️ Which of course happened because I didn’t quite understand the circuit. I feel like I’m finally starting to get it now with your balloon analogy. Please continue making these!
With hundreds of tutorials about this topic, this is a outstanding one. Very good explanation and brilliant analogies.
So many "OH SHIT I GET IT" moments in this video. Your explanations are so perfectly clear it's insane, thank you !
One question : if i have a power supply with +12 -12v, i can connect the output of the breadboard directly into a eurorack modular without problem right ?
you mean the audio output? sure! but the PSU voltage doesn't matter all that much, as long as you don't go above 15V!
Yes you can. Two things are necessary:
1. one wire carries the the output signal of the breadboard (Tip of the mono audio jack)
2. The second wire connects the ground potential of your breadboard and eurorack (sleeve of the mono audio jack). The ground in your case should be between +12V and -12V (reference ground, 0V). In the end of the video it is the brown white line connecting the power supply to the breadboard, and the black line connecting the breadboard and eurorack.
Reasoning for the breadboard ground between the two supply voltages:
Lets say the eurorack uses a signal between +5V and -5V for input.
If you connect the -12V on the breadboard with the eurorack ground you can only send a signal between 0V and 24 V . (24V is the voltage difference between -12V and +12V)
If you use the 0V on the breadboard as ground you can send a signal between -12V and +12V. Limit the output below the allowed maximal input voltage.
TLDR:
Just watch out that the negative supply voltage is is not the ground you connect to the eurorack.
The shortest and best negative voltage explanation I've heard!
This is by far the most intuitive explanation I've seen for these concepts, and watching it is clearing up a LOT of things I've really been struggling with - thank you!
If only my professor explained things like you 23 years ago... Great quality content.
really helpful explanations on dealing with dual rail power design, DC offset and buffering. I was doing some synth circuits long ago and got stuck on that part. its neat seeing you build this one piece at a time and using the oscilloscope and watch things break or work after each step.
This is one of the best electronics channels out there!
This is a very significant video. You've done a great service to the world.
Personally I wouldn't take the flow analogies so far, and would try to build intuition in terms of electrons etc. But that's just personal preference. Nonwithstanding that, this is a near flawlessly executed intuitive explanation of electronics, which is a rare thing to find at all, and probably the first to achieve such an explanation in so little time. Bravo.
this kind of persons like Moritz make posible the 3third revolution. Now i understand concepts that are not anymore abstracts. I feel so happy to find this. Please keep doing this!!! from argentina
LOVE LOVE LOVE this series. You are like the Morgan Freeman of diy synth tutors. I would love to see more vids from you, on just about anything as long as you were teaching.
Subscribed so hard. Its hard to find so much good information in one place, there are so many vids and tutorials that cover little isolated bits, and you really have to prowl around through books and other tutorials to get the same amount of info. I wish I could have seen this 5 years ago when I started!
This is exactly what I needed. I’m a novice and this is very helpful! I’m excited to start my journey into modular! Keep it up man!
Thank you for this ! I built the Thomas Henry " Clangora". hi hat module years ago from scratch. I t was painting by numbers . I have a much clearer understanding of circuit behavior. Fantastic lesson !
This is a superb educational tool. A lot more information here than just whipping up an oscillator! You are a great teacher, thank you for putting this together so well.
Your explanations are extremely good! Whenever I have to explain something about electricity to somebody I also use the water analogy, but you do it in such a detail, that's really amazing. Way to go!
Your explanations are very elegant.
You are amazing, your explanations using the water analogy constantly throughout made this something that I can finally understand. Please never stop making videos as good as this.
Hands down the best intro to electronics / circuit building I've seen on youTube! Thanks big time! You are a great teacher!
This is an excellent explanation of coupling capacitors. I sorta knew intellectually that they removed DC bias, but I didn't really get the how or the why before. Thanks! I'm hoping to learn enough from this series and others to design and build my own analogue synth from parts I've already collected over the years, so every bit of theory is very helpful.
I feel like my brain has just ascended the first step to becoming a Synth God.
Same!
So, Did ya make it? Like, how many steps are there? It's been 2 years now... God. 🤘💀🤘
Sir I think chancellor Charles is a SYNTH LORD
I had subscribed just by seeing a snapshot of this presentation besides DIY Synth VCO. I was just treated with a clear cut explanation in basic electronics. Vielen Danke Moritz, diesen videos sehr wichtig sind!
The oscillator sounds so good that the daydreaming I’ve been doing over the sound of your oscillator has had me missing out on all the subsequent learning. So I’ll have my Eureka moments at your expense when I watch your video again. It will likely be while I build your oscillator, and consequently I’ll miss out on a lot more next time I watch it too!! THANKS AND CONGRATULATIONS, you’ve found a niche here!!
You are a genius teacher. There is something ridiculously unfair about the world that someone can be famous for looking like a horse, when you have done this amazing piece of work without anywhere near enough fanfare. But well done!
thank you, perfect for starters like me - I am starting to understand things a lot more, before it all had no meaning - you have added the "mechanics of electronics" which others do not seem to do
Finally! I've been feeling exactly what you talked about at the beginning of the video. There was no intermediate level of oscillator construction, but now there is! Thank you so much for this!
5 minutes in and already 🤯🤯🤯 Helping me understand some electronics concepts I've been struggling with. Excited to work my way through the series.
The water analogy really makes thing easy to understand. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Thanks for doing this! Been building other people's designs but want make my own now so trying to really understand the basics well. This video is very helpful! Great job
Wow thank you! This video perfectly illustrates how basic circuits come together. I've always had to try really hard to understand analog circuits, but you have really opened my mind.
This is a hell of an explanation, man. Well done. The water analogy would have been super helpful back in electrical engineering school.
This man explained in half an hour what my physics teachers couldn't in five years
OP amps, buffers, DC decoupling all explained in a very well defined analogy. good stuff, love the drawings too. great for a beginner or someone who needs to brush up on discrete analog signal path.
i am studying circuits analysis in my engineering degree right now so i already understood the electronics concepts you explained yet you explained them really well congrats! i loved this video and all of your videos, my goal after finishing the degree is to work designing music production gear and i love this type of content! keep it up!
As Jono commented, this is an incredible explanation to electronics. Very helpful - thank you!
You have a fantastic way of explaining things and I had so many "lightbulb" moments watching this! Especially when you explained how the components work individually and then together. Liked and subbed
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love people who put great content online. Appreciate it.
finally the electronic classes I'm taking on school would come handy
tremedous channel here. absolutely amazing how good the whole thing is explained here. 1000 dank dir und mach weiter, moritz. scahue seit 2 tagen nichts anderes als deine videos!!
much love and support from munich
Been looking to build a synth for ages but as you say either to simple or to complex for beginner. This is really handy and I will be starting afresh on my project.
Looking forward to building one when I get home. My partner and I are doing electronics together as a fun couples activity and it's nice to get a chance to build something that actually does something fun like make sound.
I really want to thank you for the time and effort you put into this presentation.
This is amazing so well thought out and easy to understand. I've been throwing myself straight into the deep end without properly understanding the basics but you ask the same questions as me and answer them really well. Thank you so much for this series!!
Never heard about the water analogy. It's pretty accurate and simple to understand, really nice video :)
You fucking insane, came here to learn how to make a synth and ended up watching the best explanations about basic electronics i've ever heard, props to this man keep it up
I am 8 minutes in and i have already learned so much
Thank you, this is the best getting started video for DIY Eurorack ever. Even if you're familiar, this really is an excellent explanation. Well done
This really helped me understand vco’s and how to run them
I watch this video every week. Absolute master piece
Gonna build a symth with these vcos soon
Moritz, your sketches and drawings are very clear and illustrate very well what you mean in the video. In fact, you could write a publication on the subject using them!