I tried to look for video tutorials or books, but the material I found never covers the basic electricity principles behind the making.<p>Any recommendations?<p>Many thanks!
There are some good books...<p>Delton T Horn's Music Synthesizers a manual of design and construction.
<a href="http://lucmorton.com/lucstuf/pdf/Music%20Synthesizers%20-%20AMODAC%20-%20Delton%20T%20Horton.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://lucmorton.com/lucstuf/pdf/Music%20Synthesizers%20-%20...</a><p>Miller Puckette's theory and technique of electronic music
<a href="http://msp.ucsd.edu/techniques.htm" rel="nofollow">http://msp.ucsd.edu/techniques.htm</a><p>Dave Bensons music a mathematical offering:
<a href="https://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/d.j.benson/pages/html/maths-music.html" rel="nofollow">https://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/d.j.benson/pages/html/maths-mus...</a><p>Here is a list of other good reference books:
<a href="https://sdiy.info/wiki/Synth_DIY_books" rel="nofollow">https://sdiy.info/wiki/Synth_DIY_books</a>
Also, if you don't mind digital - have you seen the daisy ecosystem?<p><a href="https://www.electro-smith.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.electro-smith.com/</a>
<a href="https://github.com/electro-smith/DaisyWiki/wiki" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/electro-smith/DaisyWiki/wiki</a><p>They have built a DSP library with a lot of the basics, there are plenty of example projects, and a supportive community.<p><a href="https://github.com/electro-smith/DaisyExamples" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/electro-smith/DaisyExamples</a>
<a href="https://forum.electro-smith.com/" rel="nofollow">https://forum.electro-smith.com/</a>
I don't build synths.<p>If I did, this is where I would start:<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/electronic-music-circuits" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/electronic-music-circuits</a><p>There is a link to download the PDF below the viewer.<p>Hard copies are more expensive than most books but less expensive than many analog synths.<p>Good luck.<p>*Edit*<p>Came back to say, I would also consider Eurorack simply because that would simplify decisions about form factors, power supply voltages, manufacture, testing, etc. during design.
If you are interested in analog synthesizers then a lot of the schematics and explanations of the circuits were published in magazines in the 1970's. I think ElectroNotes was one of the premier ones, but Radio Electronics, Polyphony, Elektor and others published circuits as well, with explanations of how they worked. Here are some leads:<p><a href="https://paia.com/polyphny/" rel="nofollow">https://paia.com/polyphny/</a><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/radioelectronicsmagazine" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/radioelectronicsmagazine</a><p><a href="https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/02/07/70s-electronic-music-magazines-with-month-by-month-synth-projects/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/02/07/70s-electronic-music-ma...</a><p><a href="https://worldradiohistory.com" rel="nofollow">https://worldradiohistory.com</a><p><a href="https://worldradiohistory.com/Elektor.htm" rel="nofollow">https://worldradiohistory.com/Elektor.htm</a><p>There are still some kits available as well to learn by doing:<p><a href="https://paia.com/p9700/" rel="nofollow">https://paia.com/p9700/</a><p>You can also get schematics for some classic synths:<p><a href="http://www.arpodyssey.com/schematics.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.arpodyssey.com/schematics.html</a><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/arp_ARP_Quadra_Schematic" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/arp_ARP_Quadra_Schematic</a><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/ARP_Solina_Schematics" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/ARP_Solina_Schematics</a><p><a href="https://moogfoundation.org/schematics/" rel="nofollow">https://moogfoundation.org/schematics/</a>
I initially started out with music from outer space as an educational resource and recently dug through the classic of electronotes, but if you're looking for videos with a lower barrier to entry I'd recommend: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MoritzKlein0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/c/MoritzKlein0</a> (perhaps also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAudioPhool" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAudioPhool</a> )
I think this book is quite a good introduction to get you started:
<a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/make-analog-synthesizers/9781449356200/" rel="nofollow">https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/make-analog-synthesizer...</a>
Use teensy instead.<p>This is a good youtube channel to learn diy synth stuff <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MoritzKlein0/videos" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/c/MoritzKlein0/videos</a>