Videos

The quality of some videos available online can be quite low.

SDIY

• Homemade analog synth by David Henderson
• Homemade Synthesizers and other projects by organfairy
• DIY Synth Time-lapse
• Synth DiY Tutorials and Reviews by Quincas Moreira
• DIY Eurorack 101 by Befaco
• Building a Synthesizer, by Thomas Henry, 2009

Synthesizer knowhow

• DivKidVideo
• Modular Synth Basics - Synthesizer Tutorials, The Tuesday Night Machines YouTube playlist

Electronics

• Markus Fuller
• The AudioPhool
• EEVblog, an off-the-cuff Video Blog for Elelectronics Engineers, Hobbyists, Hackers and Makers

Electronics for synthesizers

• Lantertronics - Aaron Lanterman
• Aaron Lanterman’s Home Page
  • Prof. Aaron Lanterman EMS lectures, Muff Wiggler forum
• Georgia Tech Theory and Design of Music Synthesizers, EMS lectures by Aaron Lanterman, 2006 on YouTube
• Georgia Tech Electronics for Music Synthesis, EMS lectures by Aaron Lanterman, 2008 on YouTube
• Georgia Tech Electronics for Music Synthesis, EMS lectures by Aaron Lanterman, 2010 on YouTube
• Georgia Tech Electronics for Music Synthesis, EMS lectures by Aaron Lanterman, 2011 on YouTube
• All 48 videos of the Aaron Lanterman EMS sessions from 2010 and 2011

Technique

• The Foundation of Synthesis Videos – Get started: Learning the fundamentals of synthesis with Marc Doty
• Intro to Synthesis, New York School of Synthesis by Dean Friedman, 1988 or later
• Slices Tech Talks 1-13 by Electronic Beats Video

History

• Bassline Bassline by Nate Harrison – Roland TB303 documentary
• Moog by Hans Fjellestad – Interview of Bob Moog, 2004
• The Shape Of Things That Hum – the story of the electronic instruments that have shaped modern music
• Alchemists Of Sound – BBC documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
• Discovering Electronic Music by Bernard Wilets, 1983
• A Brief History of the Minimoog Synthesizer
• Electric Music Machine – Documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 5 parts
• Music Meets the Computer Computer History Museum talk by Max Mathews & John Chowning
• What the Future Sounded Like Documentary about the birth of electronic music in Britain, 2006
• Modulations: Cinema for the Ear by Lara Lee, 1998 – Documentary on the history of electronic dance music
• What the Future Sounded Like by Matthew Bate, 2006 – ABC TV documentary on the development of electronic music
• Morton Subotnick interview, Madrid 2011
• Bright Sparks
• The Chiptune Story - Creating retro music 8-bits at a time
• Bright Sparks Documentary - A Side and Bright Sparks Documentary - B Side

The music and musicians

• Music of the 20th and 21st Century
• The New Sound Of Music BBC documentary in 4 parts
• Analogue Heaven Documentary about the Museum of Synthesizer Technology
• Daphne Oram audio documentary transmitted on BBC Radio 3, 3 Aug 2008
• The history of the Amen Break
• BBC Synth Britannia
• Synth Britannia at the BBC
• Slices DVD Magazine Features Issue 1-12 by Electronic Beats Video
• Stevie's Wonder Men
• I Dream of Wires Documentary about the resurgence of the modular synthesizer
• Elektro Moskva Documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy.
• The Secrets Of Analog & Digital Synthesis 1985 tutorial video by Steve DiFuria
• Isao Tomita, RBMA Tokyo 2014
• Synthesizers in the Movies, BBC documentary
• Brian Eno – Another Green World, BBC Arena documentary

Audio

• The Tone Generation, radio series by Ian Helliwell
• These Hopeful Machines, radio series by James Gardner
• Sculptress of Sound – The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire by Matthew Sweet

See also

• Synth DIY books
• Datasheet
• Magazines
• Category:Magazine SDIY articles indexes
• Online resources, lists YouTube channels

External links

• Synth movies at Matrixsynth, includes a few unavailable for viewing online
• Synth Cinema at Synth School, a collection of online synth related movies
• The Video Archive of the Electroacoustic Music
• Movies at Encyclotronic