I have been contacted by a couple of people who tried to buy this, gordon was not aware of the look mum no computer malarkey (to be honest if he had been aware of it he probably would not have wanted to sell it to me incase i set it on fire or something! ha) but what happenned is i left my number, he called and mentioned someone had offered a couple of hundred quid more then backed out, and if i could match that offer i could have it. I always try to deal with second hand deals fairly. Im not sure how it worked out this way, but it did. so i apologise if you were trying to get this synth. sound pack and a WAV file of the song at the end aswell as the jam link in the description! PS if anyone has any crusty Magazine Synth projects sitting in a box in the garage and up for a trade or something! deffo get in touch!!! Next open Day At This Museum Is Not Obsolete :- Feb 26th information link in the description.

Applying the fx to your voice as you describe them is pure genius! Well done :)

I find it weird how an *analogue* synthesizer is called " *Digi* sound" but then again I guess "Analsound" just don't quite have the same ring to it

"it might actually be working but something else is up" What anyone who works on analog circuits has said more than once.

Entertaining. The time this came out I was a 10 ys old boy living in the former GDR. We had silicon shortage all year long. There was one shop in our 500k citizens town selling resistors and stuff. We visited it at least once a week to get parts for several projects. Queuing up for at least 15 minutes, and get your list for asking: "resistors 10k" - "Not availabele, but we have 33k" - Me: Ok, just triple those to get about 10K! "Do you have 10k pots, linear" - "No, but... " And so on and so on. It was quite a challenge to decide if you could use the stuff they were able to sell - and it was a decision of a few seconds. And, you had to buy the stuff no matter what, just to have stock for exchanging parts with your friends. Oh, I would have sold 3 fingers for a more reliable delivery at that time. Still, all 10 fingers on my hands ...

Glad it ended up in the right place. There is a lot of history in that synth.

Built one of these myself, apart from the Alphadac. Sold it for peanuts. You've spurred me on to build another. Still got all the diagrams

I so wanted to do things like this when I was younger (and now). But don't have the smarts or patience to do it. Thanks for giving me a look at what is possible.

Thank you for this video. I built the FORMANT after the German magazine ELEKTOR. I made the print plates myself using photochemical methods. I'm still proud of that today. I made the keyboard out of a modified Wurlitzer e-piano. Unfortunately I gave everything away when I moved. My biggest mistake, because the synth sounded very good with its 3 oscillators and a 24 db filter.

Love the way you can bring this old tech back from the dead and make it sing. Awesome, a real antidote to our throw away culture. In so many ways a lesson for society...........

Lucky you, Sam! I've got one of these with 21 Digisound 80 modules and, interestingly, an Aries (same form factor!) power/output module. Not going to question that, as that was something done by Kevin Lightner (RIP) and the actual P/S inside is probably something he specced out. What I've seen of it when I've had some modules out definitely suggests that Kevin put a honkin' big linear supply in there. Anyway, you've GOT TO get a VCDO for this thing...that's the module that has 32 fixed wavetables (4 banks of 8) and with trigger stepping control over those, you can sequence(ish) through the oscillator's timbres. Mine also has what's probably a user-built transistor ladder LPF, which says it's supposed to be a Moog copy. It's also got a few modules you'd not mentioned, such as the Quad LFO and the VCLFO. And before anyone asks if they can buy it, the answer is "No and HELL no!"

yo those magazine synths are cool as fuuudge, thanks for the amazing content Sam!!

that bass-line in the song when you test it is just top-notch

I’m listening to this on tiny speakers. I imagine that in person the sound is so gratifying! Thanks for this one.

I don't always understand the engineering, but LMNC has so much enthusiasm and introduces me to this whole world I knew nothing before. I'm down whenever he posts stuff. More music streams would be cool.

I really appreciate your deep dives on this, it's a lot so the breakdown helps me parse it all.

I'm only halfway through, and this video is already like overload-good. Incredible data-dump with incredible photography and tight editing. I'm sure you've been told this many times before, but your productivity and level of output is just astounding. Even in a group of talented friends, all working on one project, I can barely collect footage before one to many unexpected mysteries or other time-sinks happens, and documenting the build on video gets back-burnered, and we miss our deadline, and we look at our initial list of stretch goals , and we'd laugh, and then, we'd weep. And then, we'd laugh again.

Man that song at the end goes hard af! Really sounds like music from the future, keep up the good work!

Bloody awesome sounds you were teasing out of that beauty. Every time I watch one of your videos, I wish I had kept up my interest in building synth modules when I was a teenager. Pushing 70 now, but still love this stuff.

WOW! that's a bloody amazing keyboard! when you plugged in the Noise sample and hold, it blew my mind!

Must have been quite the undertaking in 1980 to set up this project for both the magazine, and the people who build it. Nice to see an example build with so many modules. Looking forward to seeing you completing the unbuild units, and hopefully fixing the processor unit.

Love your shows they really remind me of the 80's getting home from school and watching a cool science music type show on the bbc, your creative energy and determination is inspiring, a great style, i found this channel after seeing the Uncompressed video, i'm looking forward to seeing more of that, it's like top gear with music equipment :)

Loving the energy on this vid! The demonstrations with applying those effects to the VO make it easy to understand. ...I don't need any more projects. I don't NEED any more projects. Dang it. I'll have to add this to the list.

It sounds GREAT! Especially after 15:00. Great job on cleaning it up and getting most of it working. Really looking forward to hearing it at full capability.

My two favourite hobbies, Synths and Metal Detecting. Woo hoo!

Rescued and restored. I know there's much more to do, but this is for future. You're a awesome dude Sam, this is a true home built monster and a part of home brew analogue synth history. Amazing.

Utterly mad and utterly brilliant. Gotta love that squelchy filter modulated by S&H. I used to spend hours on the EDP Wasp in an Eastbourne music shop making that sound. It sold loads of them.

I have a huge pile of electronics mags from the 70s my old boss gave me. I'll have to have a good look through them. I reconised one you showed. BTW, I have a Maplin 5600s synth.

If I had access, to a space like this, I'd be so happy and making alot of things. Also I'd have room, for music making and video recording. I'd totally build, stuff like this, if I had the space. I can only dream, about that at this point, in my life.

I can't wait to hear this on the next album.

So good, this lucky synth went to a great home. You're doing great work man, keep it up.

Excellent! Makes you wonder how many partially built examples are left and how many were scrapped. Luckily this one has found a new home with the ultimate audio (over-)enthusiast.😉

It reminds me of the old direct to video B grade Sci-Fi movies I used to watch as a teenager.

This was my second synth. I built a single fully stuffed case + keyboard, after building the Powertran Transcendent Polysynth :-D You're reviewing my innocent youth years :-))

Gordon sounds like an absolute lad. What a unit, this synth is!

@9:50 When you hear that first clean sound coming out of the beast. What a project!

That is absafuckinlutly amazing!! And your abilities are endless in this stuff....so gel!!:

I'm just starting to lay out a couple of digisound modules in eurorack format. First is the envelope shaper from Sept 80, back when I was just getting into electronics. Nice to see a system up and running

What's more amazing than the sounds that come out of it is the people that actually invented the modules. I never hear about those people behind the scenes.

What a beautiful synth! Definitely worth restoring.

This is the coolest infomercial I've ever watched

F-ing Brilliant!! That Chunky Mcwoodie sounds Great! Love the white face too!

I love the look of this. The white on wood looks super nice. It kind of reminds me of the white MS20. I bet it looked really nice when it was brand new. I would do my best to get it as bright white as possible. I'm not sure what the collectors value is, but if having it repainted with new stencils wouldn't hurt the value, I would powder coat it, and add new stencils. Adding some new rare type of wood would also be really cool. Some of that swirly African style wood would be awesome. It's such a cool old synth, I think it deserves to look even cooler.

Wow. Great to see that diy synth are still a thing. I spend my youth building synth stuff with CEM / SSM chips. Cheers.

I so wanted to build a modular synth back in the day, but couldn't afford it. Then I won a competition in Sounds Magazine. There were 3 prizes, one was an ARP 2600 synth, worth a fortune now. But I won a PA system, so ended up becoming a DJ.

Another outstanding video. Thanks Sam!

I’m just speechless LOVE IT

> @15:00 What a impressive sound!!! Mate!!

Built two of these absolutely huge synths,plus the keyboard,it was the most amazing synth ever,like a fool i sold them in the mid 90s,what a mistake,,

Thanx to Gordon. You put your Synth in the right hands and now we all can enjoy the sound 😃

man so many great old sounds brings back memories of great tunes using them

I watched this at 2x speed after two cups of coffee and STILL understood you.

That video is the nuts, they way you've played with the panning and fx with your voice is class! I love this

I'm loving the vintage DIY synth coverage! The digisound is very funky. Great tone too.

I so remember that issue of ETi, not for the the beginning of the synth series, but for the 555 timer article!!

Drooling all over the shop!

1:47 something about this whole part of the video has been stuck in my head for weeks now. I can't stop watching it. The combination of the music and the announcer/commercial style voice is absolutely perfect.

Loved the editing and presentation of this video. Unreal jams too.

In your demo, you get so close to sounds/effects used in the music I (and I am sure many here) grew up on.

Genuinely impressed!!!!!!

Just want to say you are a legend sir. Back in music a year ago and new so synthesis. Your channel, work and music are all a breath of fresh air. Love it. Thank you for the hard work.

Amazing work! And what a machine!!

I miss that magazine. I used to check it out from the local library and made a ton of weird shit back in high school. 89-92

The joke about my grand dad's knees got me doing a deep chuckle.

Gary Numan would buy this in a heartbeat surely!!!!!

Man, you are king of the wobbly tables. Gives me anxiety everytime the synth wobbles!

Another fab project.

Was listening to this in headphones. Sounded awesome.

I don't watch you that often, but I totally love your projects and I enjoy your videos! Thank you from Québec Canada :)

And then suddenly it makes music again! Great awesome can’t wait to see the next vid!

This was a great video! The editing was top notch!

I remember as a kid seeing the sign for the digisound office on Queen st Blackpool where I grew up, I was about 14 and already hooked on synths. I’m 55 and still am.

That's a crunchy groove. I like this thing lol

You lucky lucky b... d! I built a digisound when it came out but as a school kid could only afford a few modules. Would love to have got this with loads of modules but brill that going into your museum. I interfaced mine to an Acorn Atom computer with software control for sequencing, patterns and arpeggios but all mono as I only had two VCOs. Fab video, thanks.

Amazing getting it working, and it sounds fantastic =D Looking forward to a follow up!

That's a beauty. Loved those days - 70's and 80's - designing analog and digital synthes and guitar signal processors. Analog was the favorite. Would go to a local piano/organ store in Atlanta, and for $25 pick up old scrap tube organs to get keyboards and other parts for prototyping/research. One home-organ had a true analog push-button drum synthe on it - a button for each drum. Loved those days - the magazines were full of fun projects - there were stores everywhere providing access to quick parts. Really great channel ... Cheers ...

ITS ALIVE, AAALLLIIIIIIVVEE!!!! Great work finding all the mags with the adverbs in them for all the kit you found brother!!! Best channel on UTUBE :::=^)

I love content like this, combining creativity of the present with a nod to the past. So glad I happened upon this channel during my journey into modular. Cheers, mate.

I'm so glad i experienced that panning on studio monitors

What a find! Sounds great 😃😃😃

In terms of DIY analogue watching this makes me realise how little we have developed since the 80s but by inverse how cool and complete this synth is!!!

Got a nice thumpa-thumpa rhythm going during the run-through.

Running your narration through the circuits pleased me oh so much!

I had a subscription to ETI when I was a kid.

Imagine get a synth module free with every magazine that's a subscription I could get behind

Omg, your problems are always such complicated problems. Its good that you have such a facility with finding your way through a circuit. I'd have a shed full of junk.

Bro, you are a regular musical mad scientist. All the tech in this is absolutely mind-blowing! Thanks for the vid, looking forward to more in the future. :)

15:00 defo somewhat VCS3 / Emerson - "Welcome Back My Friends, To The Show that Never Ends!"

I've been watching your videos and it has given me a greater understanding of how analog synthesizers work and an appreciation for folks like Wendy Carlos and others who make these synthesizers pretty much bend to their will. I've already subscribed and look forward to more of your videos!

Sinf-fa-size-a. Chav-tastic !!!! Great video 👊

Very nice, nice, nice synth with a great sound and those S&H shenanigans were totally sweet!

Impressive work getting it all talking. The output is etheral, untouchable, the audio frequency. its a kind of magic. Would be great to have a white board circuit of whats happening as you connect the parts together.

Ok this is so cool, I am always amazed at the stuff you find and you build. It feels like magic watching the stuff you’ve done.

You mad some sick beats. Love the videos.

Bet Gordon is stoked to see his old project get so much love, and a new lease of life!

Thanks for this. I built one, just the one row of modules plus keyboard. It needs some TLC!

Bloody brilliant

wow! great on another level

That is awesome. When it was working the stuff you played reminded me of Eat Static

Holy shit, this thing rules so hard.