NICK'S WORLD OF SYNTHESIZERS
THE MACHINE
This is the second synthesiser I made. It was made for playing on stage and to be worn like a guitar. I like this design because the audience can see what I am doing.
It is made from biscuit tin metal, the knobs are made from a broom pole that I have cut up
One of the main features of this synthesiser is that it has a ribbon instead of a keyboard, this means that you can slide from one note to another. I got the idea when I saw some old footage of the Osmonds playing Crazy Horses.
It has 1 filter, a spring reverb, a sample and hold, 2 lfos, and 2 audio oscillator. That makes 4 oscillators in total. Each of the output's 4 oscillators can be fed to the fm input of any other oscillator via a knob, this is what 16 of the knobs on the front panel do, so it is a variable strength fm patch matrix. The other knobs are for tuning, wave shape, pwm, and filter controls. .
It is a bit of a confusing mess. You might think I know what is going on here, but I have forgotten what does what. This makes repairing it very hard. This is bad because it was never very reliable. I don't actually know that much about electronics, especially when I made this machine, this one was made from various circuits that I found in books in the library.
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