Monday, 7 November 2011

And so it begins...

Okay, right, making a synth! Easy!

Erm...

Okay I'll be honest, I've already made a bit of a start on the whole thing before I thought to make this blog, so these first few posts are sort of catcher-uppers for you. I'll try to fill you in as much as possible on the story so far, which started with a trip to my local Maplin...

I went there to buy some basic electronics supplies (Breadboard and GCSE Component Pack) and I noticed they had a "function generator kit" for sale which claimed to produce Saw, sine, triangle and square waves of varying frequencies. This seemed like a good way to get my feet wet before embarking on the project proper, So I bought it up and took it home.


I should point out here that I don't havea decent digital camera working at the moment so until that's sorted I can't take any pictures to put on here, but the kit looks like this:
I whipped out my trusty battery powered soldering iron and proceeded to put it together, realizing in the proccess that I would need a new soldering iron, as 3watts just isn't enough power for any kind of serious work!
After sifting through my various boxes of junk I found an old 9v power supply to power it, and found that it did indeed output several different waves at varying frequencies, but they all sounded a bit...square. Maybe it was too much to ask tto get all that functionality for £11.99!

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