Not only an absolute wizard of analog music, a talented lecturer and clever editor. Props to you again Moritz, superb video as always. Cheers from Brazil!!
These videos are so great; they're explained so clearly. And as someone with an EE degree who was also a rave DJ in the 90s, this one in particular was incredibly well suited to my interests. 😉
@NotJustBikes #NotJustSynths, guitar culture has made music listening inherently unpleasant and cost inefficient, and we would all be much better off appreciating the nuances of classic analog filters than lusting after a $4000 "fake vintage" Strat. (PS i love your work, this is a joke for fun)
This just isn't the type of content you usually get on RUclips. This is the quality and type of content I would expect in a private masterclass. Super cool!
My first time ever leaving a comment on RUclips in my 23 years of living. This is absolutely amazing content and I am so thankful for you putting it on youtube for us. THANK YOU.
After going to college for electrical engineering, I've transitioned to only software/firmware professionally. Videos like this scratch the itch I didn't know I still had for hardware beeps and boops. Keep up the great work.
I just randomly ran into this when I got the wild hair to look into synth architecture while I’m in search for inspiration for a new project. I’m amazed how much of this I followed, and while I pat myself on the back, its REALLY a testament to the unbelievable quality and the top-tier combination of the explanation, the carefully curated simplicity of the project itself, and your visual elements and style. Unbelievable, I’m so happy to have run into this AND somehow I found good RUclips content that’s 2 weeks old instead of 9 years. Thanks so much, I can’t wait to watch all of our videos
Another great masterclass. I've learned more about electronics by watching a couple of your videos than I did when I was young and studying it. I wish it was taught like this in schools. Thank you very much for your work.
I think I understand roughly 0.1% of that but it was fascinating to hear such a clear explanation. I will never achieve anywhere near this level of knowledge and I have renewed admiration for electronics engineers everywhere. Thanks for sharing.
I started building DIY synth modules a year ago and I’m not sure I would have without your videos. Most of the modules I’m building are combination of knowledge gathered from you, the audiophool and lantertronics. Anyway I’ll name one of my modules MK-something because that’s the least I can do.
I cannot stress how much your videos are such great learning tools. I built the kick my own way on proto board for my little DIY modular system and it is showcased in my last demo videos on my channel. Thank you again.
As a person who loves music but knows nothing of electronics, this was soo helpful. It helped me understand what capacitors and transistors do in circuits by relating it to music, incredible!
Loved this video, I'm a telecommunications engineering student and it felt like a new way of understanding electronics other than just analyzing circuits.
Hm, the main point of CMOS was that you can make things like NAND gates that only use power during signal transitions allowing you to use more gates for digital circuits with the same amount of power. That said, using a voltage controlled FET instead of a current controlled PNP or NPN transistor might be useful sometimes for analog circuits. JFETs might be easier to use than the MOSFETs used in CMOS since they are usually a bit less sensitive to electrostatic discharge.
I have seen devices that use the logic gates in CMOS ICs as analog amplifiers! I even tested an AM radio built entirely around 4 NAND gate chip that worked great.
As an electronics engineering student and a music producer, I see this channel as an absolute win. I instantly subscribed and I can't wait to try each of these circuits myself. Thank you for sharing this!
These videos are fantastic means for understanding passive components, semiconductors, integrated circuits and practical circuit design. These would have been much more educational material in EE core courses than what was taught back in 1986.
I came to your series because I'm interested in modular. I'm new to electronics....only finished technician's school a couple of years ago. I'm so appreciating the way you dive down into how the sub-circuits interact and how a single component can be used to create different outcomes. My job deals with troubleshooting and repairing analog audio circuits. Naturally, there's no such thing as a theory of operation available, and schematics are few and far between. Your DIY synth series is making me a better technician....thank you!!!
Built mine from scratch this weekend following the steps you did in the video to hear each stage of creating and then shaping the sound. Thanks for all your effort putting this together! (Now, on to a VCO, then a sequencer.)
Really cool stuff. I find half of those old synth schematics impenetrable with their tricks and shortcuts, great to see you tackle one, and make such great showing of it. I’d like to see a longer series, where you pick a machine, and pick apart a different section of it each episode. Maybe with the goal of recreating one faithfully, or making an improved one, or just for education. Hope you keep at the 606, those noise circuits are fun. Personally I’m fond of circuits with strange components in them. If you see any audio circuits using H11F analogue optocouplers, UJTs, or mixer ICs, please make a showcase of that. Unbuffered CMOS logic is neat to see, but I’ve seen it often enough that I don’t consider it particularly rare. PLLs in audio on the other hand…
I am fascinated by analog synthesis via interface design and this is way deeper than what I previously knew so it’s amazing for bedtime listening. Feel like I m back in the Audio Engineering class again.
😊 The way you visualise and explain this hard to understand stuff is nothing short of miracle. I really do love everything about this video. Gold!!!!❤️
I am surprised and amazed at the same time. Such a great lesson. I haven't seen anything as informative and clear yet I was wondering how drum machine is made and didn't find anything smart enough to read or watch to understand how this thing works in reality. High grade engineers use moonspeak and exclude vast information that would made it clear. Hobbyists show mumbojumbo as they don't have pure knowledge or do not know to explain as well as they dont wanna share what they learnt trying to sell some pcb boards they ordered in china. This video is a gem. Again thank you so much Moritz for your efforts
Awesome video as always! If you're exploring more analog drum circuits, I think a great set to look into next are cymbal circuits, as those seem to have a bunch of unusual circuitry to achieve their sounds
I recently built Eric Archers 808-kick adaption on protoboard and was researching ways to put more CV inputs in the circuit: Thank you very much for the insight, very helpful!
This is really great! Had an old Sequential Circuits synth and played around with some old Moogs in the 80s into the 90s before everything was sampled and emulated and they were just marvelous devices. The classic percussion is a revelation, thanks!
Yoooo these are so cool. I've created a huge stockpile of components over the years. I just never got interested in project ideas. Audio never even crossed my mind, even though I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s.
I have designed built my own guitar effects for years, self taught. Your videos are (for me anyway...) at the sweet spot of instructive and intuitive without all the mathematical baggage where I can guess what might come next, or intuitively know why we need to make something in the way you describe. Fantastic!!!!
Stellar circuit. As always, really appreciate the step by step explanation of how you chose to construct the circuit. It's great to learn how to apply some of these sub-circuits like the bridged-T oscillator. As far as suggestions, I would be really interested to see how you approach using this kick as a starting point for making a hi-hat circuit. (which I would assume involves adding a noise source and maybe refining the envelope shaping). Thanks again for sharing, really look forward to more!
Amount of work that you've put into this video is... "impressive" is like saying nothing. Absolutely brilliant. The anomations, the focus on the detail, the whole narration, guiding by the hand... This is the best electronics series not only on youtube, but I'd be pretty sure that anywhere. Universities could teach stuff this way, but (obviously) they hardly ever do it like so. I wish you long, good, wealthy happy life (so you can teach us more ;) ) :D
Remarkable !!! It's always fun to see how those simple tricks solve complex issues in a efficient way. To try different "flavors" in the overdrive section is fun to use different diodes (red/green leds) or make it asymmetrical, with 1 diode in one direction and 2 in series in the opposite way
I have no idea how to read these electrical circuit schematics, but the way you break down every step is amazing - these videos should be stored in the human heritage archives :') I will stick to vcv rack for now :D
That was pretty impressive, I've been soldering modules together for years, and never had much of a clue, I still don't really, much, but that was a lot of fun following the trail.
Thank you so much for this video. My passion for bass guitar and the amplifiers that go with it is what spawned my interest in electrical engineering. I was disappointed through my time at university that we discussed the mathematics and physics of these components instead of the implementation of design. Your use of schematics and animation made it easy to follow what was happening. Looking forward to your next videos.
I want to put together an entire massive band comprised of your standard band instruments, folk instruments, orchestral instruments, and maybe even weird instruments, but all instruments are actually hybrid midi controllers that connect directly to a purpose built modular synth designed to sound like and work with their instrument. So the drummer would have a big modular synth with a module for each drum, playing an electric acoustic set. The signal can be completely synth or mixed wet dry kind of thing. Even the vocals would be using a vocoder, talk box, and other interesting synth microphone type devices. Like that telephone microphone. A band like this would be so freaking cool. And seeing a stage filled with dozens of massive modular synths would be epic. Like the engineering section of starship enterprise.
Great explanations! A fair deal of the thinking about designing it went over my head since I'm still pretty new to analog. Amazing how simple that little distortion circuit is, yet how much it adds to the final sound.
Absolutely amazing video as always! A quick suggestion for a future video, maybe do something with BBD's? There are not a lot of beginner-friendly resources on them. BBD based chorus/phasers are some of the most iconic effects from the 80s (especially the chorus on the Juno line of analog synths), so a DIY version of that would be very cool!
you are incredibly intelligent. its extremely clear to see, and these videos are awesome, they answer questions that almost certainly wouldn't get answered otherwise, the way i see it is that although there are plenty of smart people around the world, the people who came up with the most fundamental inventions and devices, those who made discoveries that changed the world or created entire companies, those people usually don't share their secrets to the open web for all to see, that knowledge is kept away to keep a companies' inventions to themselves so that they can continue to make awesome products (and charge accordingly for them) like its not just some passing thought that creates these instruments, they are often well packed up secrets, blueprints, closed source and its understandable. i mean just these kicks, that was 40 minutes of intricate explanation , imagine what goes into things like the MPC or like the polybrute, hell maybe you have a good idea, the point is: we all appreciate that you share it with all of us, thats super open source of you and very badass. you deserve positive recognition for your contributions, they mean more than just a simple video or a simple DIY project, they sprout the seeds of tomorrow's ideas that maybe wouldn't have taken off if not for some extremely important piece of information that you just happened to donate to us, you never know what might end up being the missing link between interesting ideas and revolutionary new engineering anyway..uh..in short.. thanks, good show, yes
I spend alot of my free time making kicks snares, and trying to approximately model hihat and other cymbal noises in a subtractive synthesizer, so seein these as actual analog circuits will be highly interesting.
Hi bro, thanks for make this videos, I’m a EDM producer and electronic student, and it’s very wonderful see how both things work together. (And I’m practice my English at same time jaja)
Absolutely awesome Man.. Ive been tinkering with the 606 and boss dr circuits for years ... I beg you.. Please do one on the simple vcas/evn and noise that made up the majority of the circuits like the snare and hats of those early machines..Id love to understand the vcas and simple evn gens/ filters that Roland designed for those drum machines.. With that knowledge we could easily build any drum sound from that era... The best thing is, once you grasp the bread and butter circuits implemented in those drum machines, I can see the same circuit bits used in most of the sounds..
I hear that it's actually not that tough, at least if you have time for experimentation. All the cymbals (crash, ride, hat), if I remember right, are white noise from a Zener diode or an abused B-E junction, run through a bandpass filter and the same envelope control that you see in this video. The snare is simply a cymbal and a tom striking at the same time.
@@ke9tv Nah thats not correct.. The snare is a tom with a pitch env and white noise running through a highpass filter... The hats and cymbal are very complex in nature with many small sub circuits.. six square osc all running at different frequencys and then sent down 2 different filter paths, a high pass and a bandpass section.. These are then sent to the hats and cymbal which also have complex evnelopes and vcas to control the closed open sections of the hats and the high low sections of the cymbals to make them believable sounding..
@@petrokemikal Yeah, I oversimplified. The snare and the toms definitely use transistor-derived white noise (Q35 on the main board), as well as the hex-Schmitt-trigger noise. Each time I revisit the schematic, I see weirder complexities in it. $DEITY alone knows how Kakehashi--san came up with some of these things!
Excellent video thanks you so much ! Maybe an idea for a video: how to design your first module/machine: where to learn, common things, tips and tricks…
This is my favorite of these videos by a fair bit. So much detail, all really nicely explained,with a satisfying final result. This whole series has me itching to build a synth, even though I have less musical talent than the average goldfish. To quote Marge Simpson, "I just think they're neat!"
Damn it. I don’t need another hobby! I’ve resisted the pull to head down the DIY synth rabbit hole for years, but this drum circuit is just too cool to ignore. I’m hooked; you win. :-)
Seeing a full song made in a kit of these for different parts and instruments like a Modular Synth but jankier would be incredible. Incredible to the point I bet there would be comments saying it's fake... but I still want to see that!
Not only an absolute wizard of analog music, a talented lecturer and clever editor. Props to you again Moritz, superb video as always. Cheers from Brazil!!
Nebo y 3322😊,QAàa
These videos are so great; they're explained so clearly.
And as someone with an EE degree who was also a rave DJ in the 90s, this one in particular was incredibly well suited to my interests. 😉
Was not expecting to see you here. I'm enjoying this video and I like your videos too. Both are very informative.
you got any old sets to share?
@NotJustBikes #NotJustSynths, guitar culture has made music listening inherently unpleasant and cost inefficient, and we would all be much better off appreciating the nuances of classic analog filters than lusting after a $4000 "fake vintage" Strat. (PS i love your work, this is a joke for fun)
@@lkym2481 Guitars are pretty expensive, and so are synths, I don't think "Guitar" Culture destroyed any thing.
My interests are crossing over in a wild way right now lol.
This just isn't the type of content you usually get on RUclips. This is the quality and type of content I would expect in a private masterclass. Super cool!
My first time ever leaving a comment on RUclips in my 23 years of living. This is absolutely amazing content and I am so thankful for you putting it on youtube for us. THANK YOU.
This is phenomenal. Dude goes through the schematic and explains the purpose of every component, even explaining their values. SUUUUBED!
Read your comment before watching the video. I subbed because you said all the right words
Moritz Klein is the Man! What is a 1985 Sequential worth these days? 😅
lmao so true
After going to college for electrical engineering, I've transitioned to only software/firmware professionally. Videos like this scratch the itch I didn't know I still had for hardware beeps and boops. Keep up the great work.
Haha... same. Was an electrical engineer grad, now a devops guy.
One more here... Gold content for us!
As an EE student gaining interest in analog, this content is godsent ❤
I love your explanations and illustrations. I am going to build my own.
After 53 years in this world playing with electronics, I learned a amazing interesting lesson here. WOW this opened my world, time for testing....😂😊
Just wow ... This is what we call a master class ... Clear content, beautiful video editing ... and the history bit is a delicacy. Thank you !
I just randomly ran into this when I got the wild hair to look into synth architecture while I’m in search for inspiration for a new project.
I’m amazed how much of this I followed, and while I pat myself on the back, its REALLY a testament to the unbelievable quality and the top-tier combination of the explanation, the carefully curated simplicity of the project itself, and your visual elements and style. Unbelievable, I’m so happy to have run into this AND somehow I found good RUclips content that’s 2 weeks old instead of 9 years.
Thanks so much, I can’t wait to watch all of our videos
Another great masterclass.
I've learned more about electronics by watching a couple of your videos than I did when I was young and studying it.
I wish it was taught like this in schools.
Thank you very much for your work.
I think I understand roughly 0.1% of that but it was fascinating to hear such a clear explanation. I will never achieve anywhere near this level of knowledge and I have renewed admiration for electronics engineers everywhere. Thanks for sharing.
I started building DIY synth modules a year ago and I’m not sure I would have without your videos. Most of the modules I’m building are combination of knowledge gathered from you, the audiophool and lantertronics. Anyway I’ll name one of my modules MK-something because that’s the least I can do.
That was amazing.
Graphics, design, didactics, pronunciation... Top notch!
I cannot stress how much your videos are such great learning tools. I built the kick my own way on proto board for my little DIY modular system and it is showcased in my last demo videos on my channel. Thank you again.
As a person who loves music but knows nothing of electronics, this was soo helpful. It helped me understand what capacitors and transistors do in circuits by relating it to music, incredible!
Loved this video, I'm a telecommunications engineering student and it felt like a new way of understanding electronics other than just analyzing circuits.
Bless you for sharing your masterpiece! Really clear adaptation for non-schematic-friendly persons of musical synth community
I'd love to see a series of DIY modules utilizing CMOS chips, so many possibilities!
sounds fun! what were you thinking of specifically?
Agree! I love CMOS!
Hm, the main point of CMOS was that you can make things like NAND gates that only use power during signal transitions allowing you to use more gates for digital circuits with the same amount of power. That said, using a voltage controlled FET instead of a current controlled PNP or NPN transistor might be useful sometimes for analog circuits. JFETs might be easier to use than the MOSFETs used in CMOS since they are usually a bit less sensitive to electrostatic discharge.
I have seen devices that use the logic gates in CMOS ICs as analog amplifiers! I even tested an AM radio built entirely around 4 NAND gate chip that worked great.
It’s crazy how all the things i learned in school (and at that time thought were useless) now make so much sense and be extremely useful 😅
Holy sheiz, Mo. Nearly 400k views? This one's a high-water mark for you. Congrats on the snowball of success!
I'm really crap in physics dealing with electricity, and even I kind of understood the principle, when broken down like this. Thanks - subscribed!
As an electronics engineering student and a music producer, I see this channel as an absolute win. I instantly subscribed and I can't wait to try each of these circuits myself. Thank you for sharing this!
Whoa what a wonderful channel, going to stay here for much longer.
Someone imparting TRUE KNOWLEDGE to the masses. Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️ to the top of my brain 🧠.
These videos are fantastic means for understanding passive components, semiconductors, integrated circuits and practical circuit design. These would have been much more educational material in EE core courses than what was taught back in 1986.
I came to your series because I'm interested in modular. I'm new to electronics....only finished technician's school a couple of years ago. I'm so appreciating the way you dive down into how the sub-circuits interact and how a single component can be used to create different outcomes. My job deals with troubleshooting and repairing analog audio circuits. Naturally, there's no such thing as a theory of operation available, and schematics are few and far between. Your DIY synth series is making me a better technician....thank you!!!
Built mine from scratch this weekend following the steps you did in the video to hear each stage of creating and then shaping the sound. Thanks for all your effort putting this together! (Now, on to a VCO, then a sequencer.)
Do you happen to know if you were using BC558A's, BC558B's, or BC558C's?
Really cool stuff. I find half of those old synth schematics impenetrable with their tricks and shortcuts, great to see you tackle one, and make such great showing of it. I’d like to see a longer series, where you pick a machine, and pick apart a different section of it each episode. Maybe with the goal of recreating one faithfully, or making an improved one, or just for education. Hope you keep at the 606, those noise circuits are fun.
Personally I’m fond of circuits with strange components in them. If you see any audio circuits using H11F analogue optocouplers, UJTs, or mixer ICs, please make a showcase of that. Unbuffered CMOS logic is neat to see, but I’ve seen it often enough that I don’t consider it particularly rare. PLLs in audio on the other hand…
Seconding the curiosity regarding PLLs. Strange magics in there.
oh yeah. gonna look into PLLs for sure.
Some stylophones are ujt based
Never felt a 40min video whiz by so quickly. Incredibly clear and engaging, thanks a lot!
I am fascinated by analog synthesis via interface design and this is way deeper than what I previously knew so it’s amazing for bedtime listening. Feel like I m back in the Audio Engineering class again.
ok this is my new fav youtube channel, massive thanks to you dude
This just phenomenal man.... kudos to you this the next thing I will be making after my semester exams...
once again, epic content....
Analog designers are wizards. Amazing!
😊
The way you visualise and explain this hard to understand stuff is nothing short of miracle. I really do love everything about this video.
Gold!!!!❤️
These videos are brilliant. The visuals are amazing and you explain everything perfectly. I get +1 smartness every time I watch one.
Goes to show how brilliant the Roland engineers were. Thanks
This gives me an appreciation for what goes into making an analog synth
This is not just a kick drum, this is a 'sick drum'.
Astonishing job
As always, masterfully explained. Great video.
I am surprised and amazed at the same time. Such a great lesson. I haven't seen anything as informative and clear yet I was wondering how drum machine is made and didn't find anything smart enough to read or watch to understand how this thing works in reality. High grade engineers use moonspeak and exclude vast information that would made it clear. Hobbyists show mumbojumbo as they don't have pure knowledge or do not know to explain as well as they dont wanna share what they learnt trying to sell some pcb boards they ordered in china. This video is a gem. Again thank you so much Moritz for your efforts
Awesome video as always! If you're exploring more analog drum circuits, I think a great set to look into next are cymbal circuits, as those seem to have a bunch of unusual circuitry to achieve their sounds
currently working on a hi-hat - will most likely be the next video!
It’s pure magic. Amazing craftsmanship.
Thank you, having been stuck into digital samples for so long, this video was one big "Aha!" moment for me.
I recently built Eric Archers 808-kick adaption on protoboard and was researching ways to put more CV inputs in the circuit:
Thank you very much for the insight, very helpful!
A master class. Well done sir
I've been looking for " the This-old-tony-channel" of electronics, and this is it! Absolutely brilliant, thank you!
I have never considered how analog equipment like this works.
But now you have my attention. This video is crazy good!
I love the question/answer, or call/response structure of these videos:) so much knowledge!! Thanks Moritz❤
This is really great! Had an old Sequential Circuits synth and played around with some old Moogs in the 80s into the 90s before everything was sampled and emulated and they were just marvelous devices. The classic percussion is a revelation, thanks!
I've been itching to make my own DIY analog system and drums are one of the main things I want. So excited to try this.
Yoooo these are so cool. I've created a huge stockpile of components over the years. I just never got interested in project ideas. Audio never even crossed my mind, even though I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s.
Stunned that RUclips handed this to me. Amazing rundown of your build process! ❤
I have designed built my own guitar effects for years, self taught. Your videos are (for me anyway...) at the sweet spot of instructive and intuitive without all the mathematical baggage where I can guess what might come next, or intuitively know why we need to make something in the way you describe. Fantastic!!!!
So much of this was way beyond my knowledge, yet I watched the entire video with great pleasure!
This is awesome. The circuits are interesting. For me this means no more opamps comparing stuff, we are going to make noise, cool noise.
Thanks Moritz, I always appreciate your detailed and laser focused videos. Greetings from New Orleans
Yeaaaah... it doesn't matter how well you explain it. It is still magic in my book.
You sir, got another subscriber.
Amazingly clear and understandable explanation about the circuits. Even as an engineer, I learned allot. Thank you.
Even with Roland's leg up, that still must have been one heckuva research project. Very well done. 👍
Shoutout to the subscription list @0:15, solid selection right there.
Fascinating insight into a bit off a black art - making the best analogue kick design.
Stellar circuit. As always, really appreciate the step by step explanation of how you chose to construct the circuit. It's great to learn how to apply some of these sub-circuits like the bridged-T oscillator. As far as suggestions, I would be really interested to see how you approach using this kick as a starting point for making a hi-hat circuit. (which I would assume involves adding a noise source and maybe refining the envelope shaping). Thanks again for sharing, really look forward to more!
i‘m actually working on a hi-hat circuit right now. will probably be the next video!
this is the type of video that makes me extremely happy i absolutely love this
Man! Im just waiting for this circuit around 4 years! Thank u so much!
Amount of work that you've put into this video is... "impressive" is like saying nothing. Absolutely brilliant. The anomations, the focus on the detail, the whole narration, guiding by the hand... This is the best electronics series not only on youtube, but I'd be pretty sure that anywhere. Universities could teach stuff this way, but (obviously) they hardly ever do it like so.
I wish you long, good, wealthy happy life (so you can teach us more ;) ) :D
Remarkable !!! It's always fun to see how those simple tricks solve complex issues in a efficient way.
To try different "flavors" in the overdrive section is fun to use different diodes (red/green leds) or make it asymmetrical, with 1 diode in one direction and 2 in series in the opposite way
great idea! though you‘ll have to drop the resistance to ground a fair bit for the LEDs to actually conduct.
I have no idea how to read these electrical circuit schematics, but the way you break down every step is amazing - these videos should be stored in the human heritage archives :') I will stick to vcv rack for now :D
He is a wizard beyond our time
That was pretty impressive, I've been soldering modules together for years, and never had much of a clue, I still don't really, much, but that was a lot of fun following the trail.
Thank you so much for this video. My passion for bass guitar and the amplifiers that go with it is what spawned my interest in electrical engineering. I was disappointed through my time at university that we discussed the mathematics and physics of these components instead of the implementation of design. Your use of schematics and animation made it easy to follow what was happening. Looking forward to your next videos.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Such clear walkthroughs
I want to put together an entire massive band comprised of your standard band instruments, folk instruments, orchestral instruments, and maybe even weird instruments, but all instruments are actually hybrid midi controllers that connect directly to a purpose built modular synth designed to sound like and work with their instrument. So the drummer would have a big modular synth with a module for each drum, playing an electric acoustic set. The signal can be completely synth or mixed wet dry kind of thing. Even the vocals would be using a vocoder, talk box, and other interesting synth microphone type devices. Like that telephone microphone. A band like this would be so freaking cool. And seeing a stage filled with dozens of massive modular synths would be epic. Like the engineering section of starship enterprise.
Such a great tour through the construction of such a circuit, explaining each step along the way really well - thank you!
I WISH i stumbled upon your channel when I was studying electronics in grad school
great video. love the explaination and everything. which of the potmeter is a log meter?
Great explanations! A fair deal of the thinking about designing it went over my head since I'm still pretty new to analog.
Amazing how simple that little distortion circuit is, yet how much it adds to the final sound.
Absolutely amazing video as always! A quick suggestion for a future video, maybe do something with BBD's? There are not a lot of beginner-friendly resources on them. BBD based chorus/phasers are some of the most iconic effects from the 80s (especially the chorus on the Juno line of analog synths), so a DIY version of that would be very cool!
agreed! i‘m already talking to erica synths about that. will surely happen at some point!
It's so cool to finally understand (in my capacity) how that worked!
you are incredibly intelligent. its extremely clear to see, and these videos are awesome, they answer questions that almost certainly wouldn't get answered otherwise,
the way i see it is that although there are plenty of smart people around the world, the people who came up with the most fundamental inventions and devices, those who made discoveries that changed the world or created entire companies, those people usually don't share their secrets to the open web for all to see,
that knowledge is kept away to keep a companies' inventions to themselves so that they can continue to make awesome products (and charge accordingly for them) like its not just some passing thought that creates these instruments, they are often well packed up secrets, blueprints, closed source and its understandable.
i mean just these kicks, that was 40 minutes of intricate explanation , imagine what goes into things like the MPC or like the polybrute, hell maybe you have a good idea, the point is: we all appreciate that you share it with all of us, thats super open source of you and very badass. you deserve positive recognition for your contributions,
they mean more than just a simple video or a simple DIY project,
they sprout the seeds of tomorrow's ideas that maybe wouldn't have taken off if not for some extremely important piece of information that you just happened to donate to us, you never know what might end up being the missing link between interesting ideas and revolutionary new engineering
anyway..uh..in short.. thanks, good show, yes
Wow golden content 🙏
I spend alot of my free time making kicks snares, and trying to approximately model hihat and other cymbal noises in a subtractive synthesizer, so seein these as actual analog circuits will be highly interesting.
These videos are gold mines! Thank you !
A perfect project for a rainy day! Thanks for all the effort, this was explained very well
This is just lovely :)
Hi bro, thanks for make this videos, I’m a EDM producer and electronic student, and it’s very wonderful see how both things work together. (And I’m practice my English at same time jaja)
This is absolutely brilliant, the motion graphics really nail down what your talking about, you making me think about trying to build a synth :D
+1 sub. As an EE and electronic music lover, your content tickles my brain.
COOLEST channel on YT hands down
Absolutely awesome Man.. Ive been tinkering with the 606 and boss dr circuits for years ... I beg you.. Please do one on the simple vcas/evn and noise that made up the majority of the circuits like the snare and hats of those early machines..Id love to understand the vcas and simple evn gens/ filters that Roland designed for those drum machines.. With that knowledge we could easily build any drum sound from that era... The best thing is, once you grasp the bread and butter circuits implemented in those drum machines, I can see the same circuit bits used in most of the sounds..
will do!
I hear that it's actually not that tough, at least if you have time for experimentation. All the cymbals (crash, ride, hat), if I remember right, are white noise from a Zener diode or an abused B-E junction, run through a bandpass filter and the same envelope control that you see in this video. The snare is simply a cymbal and a tom striking at the same time.
@@ke9tv almost - the noise is actually coming from six square wave oscillators that are mixed in a way that sounds almost ring mod-ish.
@@ke9tv Nah thats not correct.. The snare is a tom with a pitch env and white noise running through a highpass filter... The hats and cymbal are very complex in nature with many small sub circuits.. six square osc all running at different frequencys and then sent down 2 different filter paths, a high pass and a bandpass section.. These are then sent to the hats and cymbal which also have complex evnelopes and vcas to control the closed open sections of the hats and the high low sections of the cymbals to make them believable sounding..
@@petrokemikal Yeah, I oversimplified. The snare and the toms definitely use transistor-derived white noise (Q35 on the main board), as well as the hex-Schmitt-trigger noise. Each time I revisit the schematic, I see weirder complexities in it. $DEITY alone knows how Kakehashi--san came up with some of these things!
Excellent video thanks you so much ! Maybe an idea for a video: how to design your first module/machine: where to learn, common things, tips and tricks…
Bravo! You truly are a master at making the complex understandable.
Wow, surprisingly powerful and great sounding little piece of circuitry... LOVE IT
Those examples at the end sound sooo good!
Really cool synthesis of a synth
This is my favorite of these videos by a fair bit. So much detail, all really nicely explained,with a satisfying final result. This whole series has me itching to build a synth, even though I have less musical talent than the average goldfish. To quote Marge Simpson, "I just think they're neat!"
perfect timing... I've been working on my kick lately... this was so helpful! thanks for these videos...
Damn it. I don’t need another hobby! I’ve resisted the pull to head down the DIY synth rabbit hole for years, but this drum circuit is just too cool to ignore. I’m hooked; you win. :-)
Seeing a full song made in a kit of these for different parts and instruments like a Modular Synth but jankier would be incredible.
Incredible to the point I bet there would be comments saying it's fake... but I still want to see that!