P1MPBOT5000You should have read QST magazine as he built one and had problems withe the switches also. He drilled the holes on the face plate slightly oversized as they were sticking. There were a few other things he mentioned but overall when it was completed he said it would make a good bench signal generator for an amateur radio bench.
fopenplopi wouldnt expect to make music with this, there's no input triggers,midi, filter, envelope,etc or other common music synth functions best i can tell, just a wave function generator (oscillator?). not sure what you would even use this for outside of maybe signals testing and calibration stuff. i totally misunderstood what this thing was when i bought it.
jersey_boyLol yeah i made the same mistake. Immediately cancelled when I realized. I don't think that you can argue that they're being intentionally misleading since they don't mention that it's a musical instrument, and only mention testing uses. The only confusing thing is the word synthesizer, which isn't really wrong since it does synthesize waves. Just gotta read closely and understand what you're paying for.
fopenplopYou could definitely use this as audio input for your DAW. You could probably even use it as an LFO or another type of signal modulator. But you're right, it is not possible to make music with this module on its own. Nonetheless, it seems like a really cool/cheap way to add some hardware to your setup.
fopenplopWhen you talk about synthesizers in the context of a musical instrument yes. It has no musical properties, only math. Don't get me wrong - sound in time is math, and all sounds are composed of sinusoidal wave shapes.
However this kit is very much the exact thing you use as a bench function generator when working with signals in electronics.
Actual oscillators that are of high quality and tuned for music are different in many regards and approaches to th actual design.
Saying that, you can hook this in and sample it or mutate it and engineer it's output into anything given enough work and effort. After all you only really need a single sine wave to make any sound (as insane as that statement sounds).
Saying that though I would expect a synth to have control voltage for it's controls and inputs such as midi for controlling composition and timing. Otherwise I would just think of it as a function generator.
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11394 That's exactly what this is.
As a follower of synthesis, your money is better spent at places like http://noise.kitchen/ (checkout the Kastle & Kastle DIY kit)
However this kit is very much the exact thing you use as a bench function generator when working with signals in electronics.
Actual oscillators that are of high quality and tuned for music are different in many regards and approaches to th actual design.
Saying that, you can hook this in and sample it or mutate it and engineer it's output into anything given enough work and effort. After all you only really need a single sine wave to make any sound (as insane as that statement sounds).
Saying that though I would expect a synth to have control voltage for it's controls and inputs such as midi for controlling composition and timing. Otherwise I would just think of it as a function generator.