Here are some links which I’ve found useful;

 

These links are provided as a service and courtesy. 

As far as I know they are all working, but please contact me if there are any dead links.

 

General Synth

 

https://kassu2000.blogspot.com/

lots of ideas, schematics and kits to buy

 

https://www.lookmumnocomputer.com/welcome

Great site hosted by the very knowledgeable and entertaining Sam Battle

 

https://www.birthofasynth.com/Thomas_Henry/TH_main.html

Lots of synth ideas from Thomas Henry and Scott Stites

 

http://www.ozoe.fr/index.php?lng=fr&tconfig=0

French site (can be translated) with lots of schematics and code.

 

http://yusynth.net/index_en.php

The legendary Yusynth

 

https://www.elby-designs.com/webtek/index.html

Australian site with lots to buy, and lots of schematics

 

https://electricdruid.net/

UK site with lots of synth articles and shop

 

http://www.modular.fonik.de/index.html

Fonitronik’s page, lots of schematics

 

https://experimentalistsanonymous.com/diy/index.php?dir=Schematics

Lots of schematics

 

http://musicfromouterspace.com/

DIY site from the late and sadly missed Ray Wilson

 

https://www.synthxl.com/

Huge collection of synth manuals

 

https://shop.synthesizers.com/

Great quality and affordable 5U synths

https://www.bartonmusicalcircuits.com/

Great DIY site. He also supplies PCB and PICs

 

https://note.com/solder_state/

lots of synth Arduino projects from the great HAGIWO

 

 

 

History

 

http://120years.net/

Great electronic music site. Hours of reading

 

https://www.synthmuseum.com/

Great site with enormous collection of synth history

 

http://retrosynthads.blogspot.com/

Retro synthesizer ads.

 

https://www.raymondscott.net/

Raymond Scott info.

 

http://moogarchives.com/

Moog history and articles

 

https://www.preservationsound.com/category/early-electronic-music/

information and ideas about audio history

 

 

Suppliers

 

https://www.thonk.co.uk/

UK based company with large selection of kits and parts

 

https://www.musikding.de/

German based company with parts and kits for music projects.

 

https://www.soundtronics.co.uk/

UK based supplier with large selection of parts.  

 

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Tools & Utilities

 

https://veecad.com/index.html

Excellent stripboard layout program that is now free to use

 

https://www.tinycad.net/

free schematic drawing and capture program that can import netlists to VeeCad

 

https://nanocad.com/products/nanocad-free/

Autocad compatible drawing program that has a 2D free version. 

 

https://www.roomeqwizard.com/

Free room acoustics program, also great for plotting filter and EQ curves