User:Rob Kam/sandbox1/Notable people

The history of synth DIY

Notable people in electronic music DIY

Anyone important enough that their name might come up in synth DIY conversations.

See also:

• Category:Designers_and_inventors on EM wikia
• Where are they now?, Mod Wiggler forum
• synth-diy.org list
• [sdiy] Way OT - Who's the oldest?
• monkmorgan.neocities.org/hem

• Aaron Lanterman - Aaron Lanterman’s Home Page
• Alan Boothman
• Alan R. Pearlman - early Electronotes contributor - Wikipedia:Alan R. Pearlman
• Allen Strange - early Electronotes contributor - Wikipedia:Allen Strange
• Andrew F - NLC - www.nonlinearcircuits.com
• Barry Klein - author of Electronic Music Circuits
• Bernard Sumner - Joy Division, built ETI Transcendent 2000 (Synth Britannia 26:42), Wikipedia:Bernard Sumner
• Bernie Hutchins - Author and editor of Electronotes
• Bill Bernardi - Inventor of the Lyricon - Wikipedia:Lyricon
• Bill Hemsath - early Electronotes contributor - Wikipedia:Minimoog
• Bob Moog - early Electronotes contributor
• Bob Pease - Wikipedia:Bob Pease
• Bob Williams of Analogue Systems
• Brice Ward - author of Electronic music circuit guidebook
• Charles Blakey - Digisound 80
• Chris Carter - Wikipedia:Chris Carter (British musician), (Synth Britannia 33:33),
• Chris Huggett - Wikipedia:Chris Huggett
• Chris Meyer
• Craig Anderton - PAiA, Electronic Projects For Musicians, Electronic Projects for Guitar, early Electronotes contributor, www.craiganderton.com
• Cyril Chapman - Elektor Formant Music Synthesizer
• Dale Wills - early Electronotes contributor
• Dan Parks - founder of SSM - Five Questions: Dan Parks
• Daphne Oram - Wikipedia:Daphne Oram
• Dave Bradley - aka Stooge Moe - www.hotrodmotm.com
• Dave Jones
• Dave Rossum - early Electronotes contributor - Wikipedia:E-mu Systems, www.rossum-electro.com
• Dave Smith - Dave Smith Instruments, Wikipedia:Dave Smith (engineer)
• David Cockerell - interview
• David Friend - Renaissance Music Man: An interview with ARP co-founder David Friend, KVR, 31 Jul 2017
• David Greaves - Digipoly (WW 1985, Sep. p. 37, Oct. p. 73)
• David Ingebretson - resurrected the Steiner Synthasystem
• David Luce - former president of Moog Music Inc and the designer of the Polymoog
• David Tudor - Wikipedia:David Tudor
• David Van Kovering - David Van Koevering Biography
• Delia Derbyshire - Wikipedia:Delia Derbyshire
• Dick Parker - Steiner-Parker, The Electronic Valve Instrument
• Dieter Doepfer - Wikipedia:Doepfer, Doepfer Musikelektronik
• Don Buchla - early Electronotes contributor, Wikipedia:Don Buchla

• Don Lancaster - early Electronotes contributor, Wikipedia:Don Lancaster
• Don Tillman
• Doug Curtis - early Electronotes contributor
• Doug Shaw
• Doug Slocum - early Electronotes contributor
• Eric Barbour
• Forrest Mims - Wikipedia:Forrest Mims
• Fred Judd - Wikipedia:Fred Judd
• Fumio Mieda
• Gene Stopp - ASM1 synthesizer
• Gerald Chevin
• Gordon Mumma - Wikipedia:Gordon Mumma, Electronic and Experimental Music by Thom Holmes, 5th edition, Routledge, Nov 2015, ISBN 113879273X, The Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music p. 123
• Graham Hinton - early Electronotes contributor
• Grant Richter - early Electronotes contributor
• Hal Alles
• Hal Chamberlin - early Electronotes contributor
• Harald Bode
• Harold Rhodes - Wikipedia:Harold Rhodes (inventor)
• Harry Bissell
• Harry Mendell - Wikipedia:Harry Mendell
• Helmuth Tünker - mid 1970s Germany, how to DIY a synthesizer
• Herb Deutsch
• Howard Moskovitz - early Electronotes contributor
• Hugh Davies - BBC Radiophonic Workshop
• Hugh Le Caine
• Ian Fritz
• Ikutaro Kakehashi - Wikipedia:Ikutaro Kakehashi
• James Husted
• Jan Hall - early Electronotes contributor
• Jim Cooper - worked for Tom Oberheim
• Jim Patchell - wrote in Synapse magazine
• John Becker
• John Blacet - Blacet Research
• John Burgoon - one of the SSM founders
• John Chowning
• John Marshall - early Electronotes contributor
• John Simonton
• Julius Smith - early Electronotes contributor
• Jörgen Bergfors - aka Ninni Bergfors
• Jürgen Haible
• Ken Freeman
• Ken Stone
• Kevin Lightner
• Laetitia Sonami
• Larry Hendry - aka stooge Larry, RIP
• Laurens Hammond
• Leo Fender - Fender Music
• Leon Theremin
• Les Paul - Wikipedia:Les Paul
• Lester Ludwig - early Electronotes contributor
• Limor Fried - Adafruit - Wikipedia:Limor Fried, x0xb0x
• Louis Barron - Wikipedia:Bebe and Louis Barron
• Magnus Danielson
• Marc Bareille - Papareil Synth Labs
• Mark Verbos
• Martin Hurni - early Electronotes contributor
• Marvin Jones - editor of Polyphony, early Electronotes contributor
• Matthew Skala
• Matthias Herrmann - Fonitronik
• Motohiko Takeda
• Neil Johnson
• Nicolas Collins - Handmade Electronic Music - Wikipedia:Nicolas Collins
• Nyle Steiner - Steiner-Parker - early Electronotes contributor, The Electronic Valve Instrument
• Olivier Gillet - Mutable Instruments
• Osamu Hoshuyama
• Paul Schreiber - early Electronotes contributor
• Paula Maddox
• Pauline Oliveros
• Peter Baumann
• Peter Lutz - early Electronotes contributor
• Peter Zinovieff - Wikipedia:Peter Zinovieff
• Philip Dodds
• Quincas Moreira - Synth DIY Guy, YouTube
• R. A. Penfold
• Ralph Burhans - early Electronotes contributor
• Ray Marston
• Ray Wilson
• Raymond Scott
• Reed Ghazala - Circuit Bending: Build Your Own Alien Instruments
• René Schmitz
• Rick Coupland - inventor of the Coupland Digital Music Synthesiser
• Rick Jansen
• Rob Hordijk
• Robert Ashley - Wikipedia:Robert Ashley, Electronic and Experimental Music by Thom Holmes, 5th edition, Routledge, Nov 2015, ISBN 113879273X, The Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music p. 123
• Robert Iodice - early Electronotes contributor
• Roger Arrick
• Roger Linn - Wikipedia:Roger Linn
• Roman Sowa - www.sowa.synth.net, www.midi-hardware.com
• Ron Dow
• Sam Battle - Look Mum no Computer, YouTube
• Scott Bernardi - OGEE
• Scott Juskiw - Tellun, e.g. Neural Agonizer
• Scott Rider - aka Old Crow, www.cs80.com
• Scott Stites
• Scott Wedge
• Serge Tcherepnin
• Steve Ciarcia
• Terry Michaels - early Electronotes contributor, provided the most advanced VCO and VCF designs in existence.
• Terry Shultz
• Thomas Henry
• Thorsten Klose - MIDIbox: SEQ, SID, FM, etc.
• Tim Orr
• Tim Stinchcombe
• Tom Bugs
• Tom Gambles
• Tom Oberheim - early Electronotes contributor - Wikipedia:Tom Oberheim
• Tom Wiltshire
• Tony Allgood
• Trevor Marshall - ETI/Maplin synths from 1973
• William Hartman - early Electronotes contributor
• Wolfgang Palm
• Yves Usson - YuSynth

Further reading

• Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking by Nicolas Collins, 2nd ed., Routledge, 2009, ISBN 0415998735. In sidebar Art & Music, pages 48, 76, 94-96, 106-107

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