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MIDI & Synth Technical Resources
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The ASM-1 Synth is a DIY build your own synth project page. |
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A small but unique collection of documents describing some Roland & Ensoniq disk formats and also some Oberheim & Alesis sysex charts. |
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Electronics for music. Blacet provide a number of kits useful to the DIY synth builder including filter, envelope circuits plus more. |
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Some selected articles on midi, SMPTE and other related topics. |
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Center For Computer Research In Music And Acoustics. Provides info on current research. DSP Tutorials are also available in an FTP directory for download. |
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CPS is a realtime interactive programming environment for audio, MIDI and other media & I/O. |
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Troika Ranch is a dance group using sensors to control MIDI |
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DIY MIDI controllers using PIC microcontrollers and Basic Stamps. |
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Colin Fraser provides DIY projects to build an analog sequencer and 808/909 clones. |
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Programming information. Provides explanations and C source for time stretching and pitch shifting. Also explains Fourier Transforms. |
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Sell Lightfoils and explains how to replace the foil in your LCD display. Has examples for the Casio FZ-1 and the Akai S-1000. |
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Home of Miditools available as a kit or pre-assembled. |
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Lots of good info for synth DIY info here. |
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DIY projects and circuits including a vacuum tube synthesizer. |
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Midi tech site. Some good Midi info links & resources Include midi messages, timcode, sample dump standards charts. See the Midi SpecPage |
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FLAC is Free Lossless Audio Codec with builds and source available for most platforms. It provides lossless audio compression and decompression. |
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Freeware Windows software that provides frequency analysis. C++ source code is also available. |
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The theory behind FM synthesis explained. Also see Music, Synths & TV for more info on FM synthesis. |
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Linux midi driver for PC serial ports. |
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Some MIDI utilities along with Visual Basic code to help you understand how to control MIDI under VB. |
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Midi utilies for MSDOS & Unix. Free for non commercial use. Source code included. |
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Highly recommended for all instruments. Some good technical resources & schematics on building MIDI interfaces on the Mac, PC and Amiga, as well as the Midi Resource Page. Also see MIDI Software Development Tools. The Synth Database is a great resource, and can always use input from synth users to build it up further. |
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Hinton Instruments provides indepth technical midi information. |
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Norwegian analog synth repair shop that provides mods with schematics for a numbers of older analog synths including ARP, Sequential Circuits, Korg, Oxford and Roland. Also factory patches available in audio file format. |
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JavaMIDI is an API for developing Java MIDI applications. Available for both PC and Mac (OMS required). |
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Joe's modular synthesizer that he designed and built. Also some details of other projects including the MIDI Processor and deluxe Oberheim 4-Voice Interface designed and built for Lyle Mays |
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Music compositionin Java. A library of classes for generating and manipulating music |
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John shares his views on instrument design plus provides Cakewalk info & resources. |
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Lots of good synth info and pictures here plus synth mods and schematics are available. |
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A MIDI programming language and interface to develop your own MIDI apps. Full source available plus executables for Win95/NT and Linux. |
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LDT Inc make Universal Eprom Programmers for those that need to burn their own chips for OS upgrades etc. |
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Software links, Linux driver & plenty of other info related to midi & sound running on Linux |
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A great site that explains how to handle midi files etc. found on the Internet on the Macintosh. How to set file properties, software and much more. |
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Mark is a collector of manuals & documentation for older & now unsupported synths. |
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A commercial Win95 C++ midi toolkit for programming midi applications with ease. |
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Phil Rees UK make MIDI accessories including merge, thru boxes, monosynth interfaces & sync units. The site also provides good technical info on SMPTE/EBU Timecode and MIDI |
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Project to build your own MIDI footswitch. |
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Offer a large number of MIDI controller kits to build. |
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Archive of an electronic project to turn a kick drum pedal into a midi controller. |
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MidiShare is a musical operating system for Macintosh, Windows and Linux. |
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MIDI solutions make a ton of cool MIDI processing devices and control hardware. Also see John Fast for custom MIDI solutions. |
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A collection of documents detailing MIDI specifications. |
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Midi Technical Fanatic's Brainwashing Center provides lots of good information and resources for those wanting to have more than a basic working understanding of midi. |
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Musical Instrument Technicians Association. |
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Midi Manufacturers Association site. Midi information & membership info. Also all MIDI specifications are available. |
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Good technical Midi content in covering both hardware & software. Very good FAQ pages for every midi user. Also the home of the Hardware Web with lot's of schematics including building your own PC midi adapter. |
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Source code archive for computer DSP programmers. See TobyBear for links to other DSP related sites. |
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Focus On Craig Anderton that features a number of links to Craig's stories online. Some very valuable articles can be found here. Craig has many years of experience in music tech and related journalism. |
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DIY synth module articles and pictures plus some past magazine projects. |
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NoSuch MIDI is a set of Java classes and native methods for doing MIDI on win32 systems. It is capable of MIDI device input, system exclusives, realtime scheduling of output, and reading/writing of Standard MIDI Files. |
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A lot of links to interesting DIY and music electronic sites. |
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All types of electronic kit projects and components available, including the Fatman analog synth. |
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For DIY computer musicians Harmony Central provides an online technical manual showing standard computer port pinouts. |
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Phil makes a variety of midi devices including midi thru, midi merge, SMPTE, tape sync and also midi line drivers for transferring midi over long distances. |
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Examples of Palm Pilot MIDI software for the Nord Modular and also see his Pilot Serial Interface Pages. |
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Lots of of good DIY material here as well as links to many other resources. |
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For Win 95/NT Rogus McBogus is a C++ library that allows fast and easy development of programs that can receive, process, and transmit MIDI data. |
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An informative website providing information on analog synths and for DIY synth builders. It also provides an archive of synth information. |
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A synthesis programming language for MacOS and is available to download. Source code is available also. |
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Manuals, schematics and info on many classic synths. |
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Schematics and auto calibration for many brands of synths. Be warned there are popups with this website. |
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Includes patch sheets and schematics for many vintage synths including ARP, Sequential Circuits, Moog, Overheim, Korg and Roland. |
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This archived page of Geir Kilsti has diagrams showing the pinouts of the Soundblaster MIDI port and also provides documents with the specs of SDS, SMF, GM/GS and also MIDI controller numbers. |
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A guide to sysex hex commands, what they mean, how to use them & hex-2-decimal translation charts. |
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Hosts a number of synth DIY websites. Very good info for the DIY enthusiast. |
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An archive of a past DIY page with some resources, schematics & service manuals for some analog synths. |
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Info on various analog synths, related books and midi/CV interfaces. |
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A resource site for building, repairing, modifying, and learning about analog music. CEM database and price list. synthesizers. |
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An archive of a page explaining MIDI sysex communication. |
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A database of sysex messages for many synths plus it is the home of SyxLibEd a freeware sysex manager for Windows. |
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Technotoys (makers of Seq 303 software 'analog sequencer') also provide some great free Windows midi tools including Musicalc for timing calculations, Midi Hack and Midi Thruway. |
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Provide DIY synth and MIDI projects. |
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A collection of MIDI utilities as well as some examples of MIDI code that you can use with Visual Basic 3.0 or above. There is also an included a spreadsheet that accesses MIDI functions as well. EXCEL 5.0 or 95/97 required. |
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A soft wavetable synth engine SDK to use in your own applications. |
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Harmony Central provide an Acrobat document providing the technical details involved with wavetable synthesis. |
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Info on making your own DIY synthesizer. |
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Zel is an interpretive midi programming lanuage for Windows. |
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Zicweb has a number of small DIY projects available for building your own MIDI hardware. |
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Zorin offer basic HC11 microcontroller boards, accessories and add-ons for particular tasks including MIDI data handling. |
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