www.electronicsworkbench.com

[ocelot]

Has anybody tried this software ?

Love the new forum

[achtung jackass]

no, i havent used that software, but i've used pspice. its very good. but i havent quite figured out how to use it to design pedals and the likes.
is that program easy to use?

[cd]

I use the latest version (Multisim) to simulate stuff all the time.  It's 10x easier to use than pspice so it's pretty much idiot proof for a moron like me   All you do is drag and drop the components into place and drag wires between them, nothing simpler.  It's a freakin' expensive piece of kit though, but like with any software it's possible to get it for free (no, I can't help you with that - use that as inspiration, since I don't want to get the forum into trouble.)

[achtung jackass]

i'd say its expensive alright. i have to use pspice in college so i'm kinda stuck with it.  but its pretty much drag and drop too...well kinda 
i love the way it gives you the layout on the perfboard too....pretty nifty

[Transmogrifox]

I used it once to do a distortion pedal layout when I was in college.  It was pretty straightforward.

Since I graduated, I have had no access to Electronics Workbench or PSPICE (the EE dept. had the full version at the computer lab), so I went to looking into the prices of the likes of MATLAB and PSPICE.  I would have to have a seriously profitable company to justify them.  Between the two I could be into it 12 grand.

I did find a site where you can download the free student version of PSPICE.  I am currently using that program to simulate blocks of circuits to test conceptual ideas.  It's a great version to use for simple circuits such as fuzzes and things, but you may have trouble for importing models for OTA's for filter circuits or BBD's for delay type circuits.

It usually works rather well for modelling oscillators (HF and LF) for circuits up into the 10 Mhz range.

Here is the link:

http://vorlon.cwru.edu/~flm/eecs245/pspice.html

[achtung jackass]

i have that one already, a lecturer in here gave me the link for it