Thomas Henry Rides Again

[DiyFreaque]

This was posted to the Synth DIY list tonight:

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Hello there, boys and girls!

I've got a (IMHO) fairly exciting announcement to make: John Mahoney
and I are putting together a joint venture to, amongst other things,
reissue the Thomas Henry "Cookbooks"!

We've got the blessings of Mr. Henry himself, and starting sometime in
March (yes, of THIS year) Magic Smoke Electronics (tm) will be
publishing the "Electronic Drum Cookbook." This will be followed by
the Noise, 566 and 3080 books (approximately in that order). There
will be other books and goodies, but too many details remain to be
ironed out to discuss everything just yet.

We'll have an online site to take orders, but PLEASE no orders yet.
Like I say, we should be ready to rock in some time in March.

John and I would also like to thank Scott Stites for his help and
recommendations (and for making the introductions), and of course,
Thomas Henry for allowing us to share this great source of DIY info.
We're pretty excited about this, and we look forward to making these
books available again.


Tim (Magic Smoke Electronics is our joint venture? How'd I miss THAT
one...) Servo
--
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
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[Dave_B]

Excellent news!  I missed every opportunity to buy those over the years.  Now if only Mr. Henry would make an occasional on-line appearance... especially here.

[puretube]

 

[Mark Hammer]

That's pleasing to hear.  Thomas Henry has done a lot for the DIY community since the late 70's, and it would be nice to see his clever ideas resurrected.  A compendium of his Polyphony and Device articles might be a nice collection too.  If he gets a little money out of it, so much the better!

[Peter Snowberg]

Very cool.

Best wishes!

[Coriolis]

YES! I swiped the next-to-last set of books he had for sale when Midwest Analog closed, actually the E-drum cookbook, 3080 book and the noisebook, but those are so good, and have references to lots of his other writings, that I'm wanting more!
Now I REALLY need to start building some of that stuff...

The website isn't up yet...?

C

[Coriolis]

This needs bumping. Googled "Magic Smoke Electronics" and only got... well smoke and mirrors, as could be expected.
Did this thing ever get off the ground? I crave more from the tip of Thomas Henrys pen!

C

[DiyFreaque]

It's still very much in the works.  Taking longer than they planned though.

Cheers,
Scott

[Coriolis]

Okidoki! I can live with that...

C

[PRR]

I unexpectedly stumbled onto a Thomas Henry book.

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Bookshelf_Technical_General.htm
Build A Better Music Synthesizer
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/Technology-General/Build-A-Better-Music-Synthesizer.pdf

There may be more, but my bed calls.

[davent]

I unexpectedly stumbled onto a Thomas Henry book.

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Bookshelf_Technical_General.htm
Build A Better Music Synthesizer
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/Technology-General/Build-A-Better-Music-Synthesizer.pdf

There may be more, but my bed calls.

I still have a copy of Build a Better Music Synthesizer on the shelf here.

[Mark Hammer]

I have a copy of "An analog synthesizer for the 21st century", which has the same VCO, VCF, VCA and ADSR projects, but lacks some of the circuits in "Build a Better" and has several others not included in that one.  If you have the big Thomas Henry reprints collection, you already have what in "Build a Better".