WHO WE ARE
New England Synthesizer Center (NESC) grew out of a desire to create a brick-and-mortar place for synthesizer enthusiasts, hobbyists, musicians, engineers, experimenters, and everyone else to get together.
Our heritage is do-it-yourself electronic modular synthesizers. Our current environment is one of creativity, exploration, education, inclusivity, and acceptance through the magical medium of electronic audio waves.
WHAT’S HERE
NESC is a place to come and start to learn, pursue, satisfy and obsess about electronic music synthesizers. We are home to
- synthCube: One of the world’s largest on-line selections of DIY synthesizer panels, pcbs, kits, parts and accessories, synthCube operates out of NESC.
- Music From Outer Space: the legacy of synth guru Ray Wilson continues on- analog synth noise boxes, modular synthesis projects, standalone synthesizers and Ray’s master work Make: Analog Synthesizers
- MOTM Analog Modular DIY: the large format legacy of Paul Schreiber of Synthesis Technology, MOTM is a modular synthesizer format, brand, and series of amazing modules.
- NESC Retail Discovery Center: come browse over 100 synthesizer projects representing some of the best makers in the world
- NESC Synthesizer Classes and Events: check our calendar for synthesizer discovery events, workshops, performances, maker introductions and more!
HOW TO FIND US
We are located behind and above the Dunkin Donuts/Northside Convenience Store at 44 Great Road, Bedford, MA. We are 25 minutes outside of Boston via Route 128/US95 exit MA-4 west towards Bedford. Parking is available along the back of the building. Please respect our neighbors and do not park in spaces for the DD/Convenience store. Enter through the doors on the back of the building and find us up the stairs on your left or via elevator to the second floor.
hay you guys are doing DIY synths? do you have any particular target hardware? ARM? SHArC?
i have some serious SHArC experience, algorithm experience, math experience. very little specific ARM experience, but i have written C code for reverbs and such that ended up in an ARM device somewhere.
would you like any free material from me? probably the first thing that comes to mind is a MIDI 1.0 parser written entirely in simple C without need of any library. it does not *dispatch* MIDI commands (that’s what your synth has to do) but it takes the stream of MIDI bytes going in and turns them into complete MIDI messages coming out.
somewhere i have some old wavetable synthesis code, but it’s stale enough that it should be rewritten.
i used to work for Kurzweil Music Systems and i would be interested in participating in this DIY project and i could likely teach a few techniques.
lemme know.
we’d always love to chat!!!