Are there any good kits out there?
Thanks!
He might just go ahead and look for a high quality Oscillator board, because any Osc worth its snuff would serve as a dedicated LFO anyway, at least thats according to synthesizers.com.
Interesting point. Any kits that you’d recommend? He is in a DIY mode.
http://www.curiousinventor.com/kits/voice_of_saturn
http://www.synthtech.com/motm/m320/index.html
http://www.cgs.synth.net/modules/psycho_lfo.html
http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/analogsynth/VCLFO200607/VCLFO200607.php
Then you could scratch one up yourself with a 555, using the info from here:
http://www.messaggeri.it/xoscillatori.htm
LFO’s are easy, they don’t have to track and don’t have to be really stable.
I bet you could gin a simple one up for less than $5.
Heres a VC LFO
http://musicfromouterspace.com/analogsynth/VCLFO200607/VCLFO200607.php
Heres a Paia VCO/LFO
http://www.paia.com/proddetail.asp?prod=9720K&cat=12
I don’t know anything about DIY. I can barely tin the tip of my soldering iron. From what little ive seen, synthesizers.com is onle of the only ones that offer the Osc/VCO. Some of the other companies are 1 or the other. I haven’t really seen too many companies though. I looiked at MOTM COTK and PAIA.
SOmeone else may very well know.
Eric
He found a schematic online and built an LFO based off of the 555 chip. We tried it out yesterday with my self-oscillating MF-101.
Next step is a keyboard controller:
http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/analogsynth/SINGLEBUSSKEYBOARD2007/SINGLEBUSSKEYBOARD2007.php