For the DIY fans:
Make Analogue Synthesizers, Ray Wilson, https://thonk.co.uk/documents/Books/MAS_sampler.pdf
Handmade Electronic Music, Nicolas Collins
Circuit-Bending: Build Your Own Alien Instruments, Reed Ghazala
I couldn’t find PDFs for these, but they’re all available off Amazon. There is also a really good Once Upon A Synth video talking about general electronics/DIY books, as well as sDIY ones too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yui_uSp0Clw
This is nice, too:
https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=93120
the book of bad ideas. Basically a library of all sorts of patching ideas that can be found on Muff Wiggler. You can download it as a pdf.
Wow. That book looks AMAZING! Thanks. 
There’s a few links in the Beginners Guide as well:
Yeah. The book itself however isn’t actually there on that link.
Oops! Sorry. I don’t have a replacement link at the moment though.
you can buy a used paperback here:
not a bad price for version 1 (for a collector)
I’ve seen it for sale at $300 in the past
yah! i’ve had a PDF of this floating around forever. Do you have any fav sections/patches from it?
also, great idea for a thread @chrtlnghmstr - thx for starting!
Here’s one of my favorite articles re: Buchla, and some of the ways they were conceptualizing it that are sometimes lost in translation: http://musicologynow.ams-net.org/2017/02/dont-call-it-synthesizer-remembering.html
Looks pretty interesting… as does Synthesizer Basics Dean Friedman( 600dpi) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A whole bunch of good books and manuals here: https://archive.org/details/@bubba_jones
did anyone buy this book yet? does it cover much ground on different concepts relating to basics?
The Richard D. James / Tatsuya Takahashi conversation was very interesting - thanks for sharing. That link at the end is pretty wild: https://dood.al/pinktrombone/ - “bare handed” speech synthesis
Yes and yes. It’s a beautiful book and people are already calling it “The Modular Bible”.
Oh man! That’s crazy! Everyone should check that out…
awesome! i ordered. looking forward
