Somewhere between Mini Moog, Big Muff, and talking birthday card.

@MS-Patriot2

5 ай бұрын

Brilliant description. I got half way through building one of these but it only managed the Big Muff and I was getting distracted by other muffs at the time.

@ivysdadd

4 ай бұрын

As above… Good description

@ivysdadd

4 ай бұрын

I was a sucker for talking birthday cards as much as I was a synth and a pedal

princess anne built one of these in the back of her scimitar!

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

5 ай бұрын

Hahaha

@entropybentwhistle

5 ай бұрын

Then gifted it to New Order.

I built one of these back in the day, for a friend. Friggin wicked synth.

Nice. Barney from New Order built one of these.

@bitegoatie

5 ай бұрын

Barney the dinosaur built one too, old 'merican kids say.

@MartinE63

5 ай бұрын

Joy Division not New Order (the synth was used on unknown pleasures in 1979)

@GNeuman

5 ай бұрын

Yep, it didn't work either.

@cambridgemart2075

2 ай бұрын

@@GNeuman Unlike the jabs!!!!!

@GNeuman

2 ай бұрын

@@cambridgemart2075"Safe and Effective."

I bought a ready-made one as I knew how crap I was at putting things like that together. So much fun.

Sunday is now complete.❤

one day imma build one of these boys. there's something so charming and punk about it

Thanks Sam! A lot of those sounds took me back to the 80's when I was a teenager! Thanks for sharing! 🙂😎🤓❤

Even if you could put in a New Order for one of these, I'd probably still get a PWM Malevolent first. So, it's cool to get to experience this one vicariously.

Sounds badass ❤

You always find the coolest synths. Looks like a professionally built synth, for being a DIY one!

Still got mine, but it got smoke damaged in a recent fire in my electronics lab :( Hopefully can bring it back to life soon...

I hope you make a dub/jungle track with that thing. it would be massive.

I've seen a kitten with very long whiskers playing it, he rocked.

Nice. Barney from Joy Division built one of those.

Halfway through your Gabber section, a Herpes add popped up. perfect timing. that thing is a percussion beast. really fast envelopes and punchy as it gets. super killer.

Dam i struggled putting the nts1 together i cant imagine putting something like this together

Someone associated with New Order undoubtedly owned a Scimitar at some point.

If you want to build one now, getting the correct negative temperature coefficient resistors for the VCO and VCF would be a problem. I think all other components could be found easily. The VCF self-oscillation could blow your speakers, it was vicious. The pseudo-random counter of the noise generator was prone to locking up. The modulation of the triangle waveform shape was an unusual feature. Being DIY the build quality was variable but if the right components were used it was a neat monosynth.

@kpm3591

4 ай бұрын

I too blew my speaker (Wharfedale) while first exploring the resonance control

Love the raw sound

I will come to your museum when I can. Canadian here.

14:30 Excellent wet sounds!

Some nice rhythms :)

I am not getting the Princess Ann reference, but I like this piece of electronics very much.

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

5 ай бұрын

Because every time you mention transcendent 2000's people say about new order. Same as a reliant scimitar and princess anne 😂

as a kid I always wanted one

Some sounds of prodigy is it

I used to look at these in ETI and think "yeah... I'm going to build my own synth"... but just getting the magazine was about as far as my pocket money would go. They are fabulous in their own way though.

I actually made my own PCB from the articles but had to make the PCB shorter (500mm) as my simple layout-program had that limit. All components in place but right now the tricky part is the kbd - I must have like to contacts per key - one for the voltage (not 1V/octave) and one for gate. A nice little synth. Hope I can finish this one and give it to a grandchild.

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

5 ай бұрын

Nice! Sounds like a good project!

Barney built one while in Joy Division but couldn’t get it to work. They used Martin Zero’s (Hannett) modded Transcendent’s on Unknown Pleasures and Closer.

Nice sound. People spend a lot of money on plugins to get that drifting effect.

10:08 had a The Prodigy vibe to it.

Oils and solvents used to clean potentiometers can wash away the special grease that makes them feel silky smooth. I have a tube of soap thickened grease (Rocol Kilopoise) that can be applied to the shafts which make them feel velvety smooth again but it does mean dismantling them…

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

5 ай бұрын

Indeed. These were cleaned. But some just feel horrid. It's definitely something overlooked. A lot of older designs just don't have the feel. Playing on a proper ems synthi last week really showed that

Synthesizer Sunday? Sign me up! Oh wait I'll just subscribe

Its probably going to be too much of a hassle but a keyboard with a kosmo panel on the top be awesome :)

You just played kraftwerks entire back catalogue

4:10 I happened to be looking at my volume meter. Bright red lights and a loud noise at the same time, jumped so hard it felt like I got shot in the head.

obscure propietary music tech pre-internet era, i like.

I can remember reading about the Transcendent 2000 in Electronics today back in the late 70s. Sadly the £186 cost of the kit was well out of reach for me in those days.

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

5 ай бұрын

yeah pricey!

@kpm3591

4 ай бұрын

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER well worth it!

Interesting old bit of homebuilt kit. 2x 👍

New Order had a Reliant Scimitar.

Hey one of the Joy Division moded versions is for sale on eBay

Get some Deoxit for cleaning potentiometers. Damned expensive in the UK but worth every penny. Nothing comes close to it. Makes the pots smooth like new.

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

5 ай бұрын

Indeed. These have been cleaned. It's a certain type of plastic pot they used in early 70's that are just plain nasty

I'm wondering what was 'upstream' of that precision resistor? For it to actually burn it out means something was asking for much more current through it than specced, it seems to me.

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

5 ай бұрын

I think with those type of resistors it is more an age thing. Nothing particularly upstream. It's those funky black resistors. I have had a few Just not work. No heat related breakdown

You should release some diy kits I’d buy or subscribe

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

5 ай бұрын

I do search up Kosmo synths :)

@7:36 I don't mind a bit of gabber!!

They're ALL DIY kits! That's what makes them... different?

Is there an equivalent kit around today ? I couldn't afford one back in the day on my paper route money.

@kpm3591

4 ай бұрын

There’s at least two VSTs. TubeOhm one is excellent

New order built one of them

oki doki synth-heads, now it's time to come clean on this synth. (hmm, maybe it is THIS actual synth I am talking about) who was the lucky bugger that won ONE, on UK eBay, about the time when the above video was published, about a week ago? I have overslept that auction. lol, but a couple of times I had the feeling that I was biding on some 'collection in person only' obscure piece of junk against Sam of (Not) Obsolete

@ohm_studi_ohm

5 ай бұрын

That will be me I guess If it’s the non working one that sold on feb 3rd 😊 Almost finish repairing it. But I didn’t see this video till now.

@paomazaki5647

Ай бұрын

​ @ohm_studi_ohm Next time when 'For parts or not working' and 'collection only' gem/junk surfaces on ebay, let's make a raffle on who is getting it, thus we don't pump up the price bidding out against each other. is it illegal? nice!

10:22 Old pots were great, sometimes, when they were young. Old, heavily used pots stink. Old and new crappy pots stink, but there were a lot of high-quality pots available back when dinosaurs built synths. Actually, pots are not better than they once were - it is only in the last 10-12 years we started getting really good pots again, like one could get in the old days (I mean, for the right price, there were always good ones, but they became rare for a while).

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

5 ай бұрын

Indeed. But most of the old plastic pots on any sort of synth from the 60's and early 70's feel not great now. Much improved in the late 70's. But yeah even a restored arp 2600 for instance with original pots still just feels nasty. Small price to pay I guess!

Isn’t this the synth that New Order built!

It's Synthesizer Sunday, keep your hand on the volume knob until the video comes to a full and complete stop.

Only one Sam Battle!

British synth manufacturers seemed hell bent on breaking with convention. Especially with the envelopes. The Wasp is the same. Weird but unique.

Something something joy division something

Joy Division built the transcendent, they barely used it in New Order.

@THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE

4 ай бұрын

but did they drive a scimitar?

@milksheihk

4 ай бұрын

@@THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE Not that that I'm aware of, I think they mostly got around in Tony Wilson's Peugeot 504 station wagon.

Promo>SM

My god. Just hold a note and let hear it...tap tspbtsp tap tap tap tap 😢😢

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

5 ай бұрын

huh? but i did?

@fuckcensorship69

5 ай бұрын

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER I did t have the patience. 30 seconds of tapping notes rapidly and I was out

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

5 ай бұрын

@@fuckcensorship69 lol ok. cool :)