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'''Ken Stone''' is an over-enthusiastic synth hobbyist who started dabbling when modular synthesizers were both rare and expensive. His initial exposure to them was in 1974 when he heard the album "Popcorn" by Electric Coconut. Not long after that, the traveling music teacher brought his newly acquired Minimoog to school.▼
▲Ken is an over-enthusiastic synth hobbyist who started dabbling when modular synthesizers were both rare and expensive. His initial exposure to them was in 1974 when he heard the album "Popcorn" by Electric Coconut. Not long after that, the traveling music teacher brought his newly acquired Minimoog to school.
It would be several years before Ken was able to get a synth of his own. In the mean time, DIY electronics was the only way he could produce any sound-makers. It wasn't until December 1980 that he was able to convince his father to buy him one, and even then, it was a very minimal system – modular, of course. That synthesizer was a Roland System 100M modular, specifically, one 110 VCO-VCF-VCA module, one 140 2 ENV-LFO, one 191J 5 module system rack, and the 181 49 keyboard controller. The only way to fill the gaps in the 191J was DIY. Unfortunately, back in those days, information was scarce and key parts were impossible to find.
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