Description | This project is fun for someone with intermediate to advanced electronics skills who wants to make cool sounds. It makes a great first synth project but is interesting enough for the seasoned synth-diyer too.
The board includes 1V/oct scale adjustment trimmers for the oscillators You will get a couple (maybe three) octaves of in tune scale. If you have a sampler you can use this unit as an analog synth sound source to make excellent samples with.
Some of the wiring is done on the chassis but the drawing I have included will make it very easy for you to do a neat job while you build it. |
| Brand | MFOS |
| Model | Sound Lab Mini-Synth |
| Device | Synth |
| Type | Desktop |
| Engine Type | Analog |
| Engine | VCO |
| Voices (max) | 1 |
| Oscillators | 2 |
| LFO | 1 Saw Up, Saw Down, Square, Triangle |
| Engine Detailed | 2 VCO, Pulse, Pulse Variable, Saw Down, Square |
| Filter (VCF) | 1 12dB Slope (2-pole), Low Pass, Resonance |
| Envelope (VCA) | 1 Attack, Decay, Looping |
| Keys | 0 |
| Key type | N/A |
| Velocity | N/A |
| Aftertouch | N/A |
| CV-gate | CV/Gate IN |
| Extra info | DIY |
|
Produced: | 2004 |
| Legend: |
Obvious |
Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable |
| VCO |
Voltage Controlled Oscillator |
DCO |
Digital Controlled Oscillator |
| LFO |
Low Frequency Oscillator |
Sub |
Sub Oscillator |
| VCF |
Voltage Controlled Filter |
VCA |
Voltage Controlled Amplifier |
| Velocity |
As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key. |
Aftertouch |
Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel. |
| Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise. |
