I love synthesizers, and recently played with the Korg monotron. Its super simple, and really fun. Having made a pretty basic synth cicuit, I thought- wouldn’t it be awesome to make this yourself! Korg is great, they’re with it- they put out the schematics for the synth, and even went so far as to annotate the board with the synth LFO (modulates the wave), the rate, VCO (generates the sound), pitch, and other sound synthesizing parameters.
It looks like Korg is coming out with other mini synths in the same vein. What a fantastic idea. This gives tons of others the ability to literally build on top of Korg’s sound, and use it in their own projects.
