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Would it be worth it to reverse engineer the Korg Monotron?

I want a project that will take me through sound synthesis, circuit diagramming and design, breadboarding and that will also produce some benefit for others. My only thing is I don't know if the Monotron is too simple to even bother with (the MS-20 filter may be worth it, but the rest is just a vco and an lfo).
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neon22 | 2 years ago
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This sounds like a great project.
as you say it covers some basic sound synth components and its simple so the project won't take forever.
You should also get all kinds of great sounds out of it and I'm sure adding an extra LFO or two will happen and the project will take on a new dimension. :-)

The Monotron is an 85USD (MSRP) with a single oscillator and single filter single LFO
What a great little product at a great price... Personally I have a KAOSSILATOR - its fantastic and I need to hack it to play with the capacitive touchscreen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNNb18aFSQ4

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adamj | 2 years ago
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Reverse engineering is something you do after you understand circuit design. You'll spend a lot of time identifying components, drawing a circuit diagram (and if the PCB is more than two layers, the difficultly goes up exponentially), before you can start figuring out how the components interact -- and if you don't have a good idea of how digital sound synthesis works, what circuitry comprises the VCO/LFO or whatever, you're just going to be flailing around in the dark. You'd get a lot more out of studying well documented designs and breadboarding them.

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