01.
Tools for getting started with SDIY
2018 Jun 26th

Tools for getting started with SDIY

It's a fairly common question "What tools do I need to get started with synthesizer do-it-yourself building?" and most people who ask or answer this question seem to think it starts and ends with a soldering iron.  That tunnel vision then becomes part of the unrealistic expectation that SDIY is "a good way to save money."  That's not the reason to do it!Never mind why you want to get int… [Read more]

02.
Walking the hypercube
2018 Jun 20th

Walking the hypercube

Here is the skeleton of a four-dimensional hypercube, or tesseract, with the vertices labelled by musical note names. No label is used more than three times, and out of the 24 two-dimensional faces of the tesseract, on 18 of them the note names form a major or minor triad with one note doubled, or a seventh chord (major triad plus minor seventh).  The number 18 is the maximum possible… [Read more]

03.
State of the store
2018 Jun 8th

State of the store

In the last couple weeks, since the storefront move, I've been busy with a lot of store and non-store issues and haven't had much time to update here.  Sorry about that; here are some notes on what's going on. Storefront This Web site is starting to look more like what I want, but there are still a lot of things I have to fix.  As I think I've mentioned before, the tools for custo… [Read more]