Tomi Engdahl's Music Electronics Page

General information

• 120 Years of Electronic Music
• Digital Music Zone - circuits, software, FAQs
• Music Machines at Hyperreal - home of musical electronica
• Harmony Central Internet Resource for Musicians - attempt to bring together music related items
• Hyperreal Music Archive
• Music & Audio Connection - software, resources, audio-related companies
• The Musician's Ultimate CyberWorld Destination
• The Music Yellow Pages - index of manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and nationwide retailers for the music, pro audio, entertainment and lighting industries

Effects

• Guitar Effects FAQ
• Guitar Effects Oriented Web Page
• Music Electronics Archive - commercial and home-brew guitar effects, includer Leper chematics collection

Instruments

• 8 Note Tune Player - little circuit that can play 8 note tunes at any speed you want
• A Paradoxical Sound Syntetizer
• Analog Music Synthesizers - some example circuits
• Analog Synth Electronics Music D.I.Y.
• Big Briar - Theremins and innovative electronic musical instruments designed by Bob Moog
• SYNTH-DIY mailing list - discussions about synthesizer electronics and the building of (mostly analogue) synthesizers, searchable on-line archive of mailings
• Synth-DIY Mirror Archive - synth schematics and articles
• Touch Switches - for exaple for drum machine
• Transistor Organ - very simple circuit
• Music Machines - syntetizers, schematics, DIY info pages
• Programmable Musical Bell - may be programmed for generation of a number of musical notes
• Simple Voltage Contolled Twin-T Oscillator/Filter/Drum
• Synth Fool - synthetizer schematics
• Synth Zone - analogue syntetizer equipment info
• Theremin - very large theremin page
• Theremin schematic - very simple ascii schematic
• The Theremin Home Page
• Troika Ranch - theremin-to-MIDI, interactive technology

Other useful circuits

• Audio circuits - amplifiers, mixers, compressor/limiters, crossovers, preamplifiers
• DI-box circuits

Midi

General

• MIDI channels, voices, timbres and Modes
• MIDI Links - lots of links
• Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) - overview
• MIDI Manufacturers Association - source for information on MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) technology
• MIDI Time Code - Detailed Specification
• Mdiweb - basic information, technology, programming, MIDI files
• The Midi Archive - MIDI and other electronic music stuff, patches, software, songs, documents, links
• Using MIDI in a Professional Environment - useful tips and sccessory schematics

MIDI circuits

• Creating Custom MIDI Sensors
• Hardware Web Midi page - computer interfaces, keyboard, wires, tester
• Low-Cost MIDI-Knobbox - text in German
• MANMIDI - a chip for converting multiple voltage sources into midi controller output
• MIDItools - MIDI computer hardware design and software
• MIDI interface for Soundblaster compatible cards
• Midi Passthrough Circuit
• MIDI standard hardware
• Music Machines: do-it-yourself
• PC soundcard midi interface circuit - midi interface circuit for Soundblaste, GUS etc.
• Pinouts of some common optoisolators used in Midi interfaces

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