DivKid's Month Of Modular Issue #20 | Page 10

The lovely Mr Duff (he’s not associated with a cartoon beer brand) has the

Brighton Modular Meet happening again this year and if past events are

anything to go by it will be a great weekend of workshops, performances,

the buzz of a modular meet with users and manufacturers and there’s

food and drink on site too. The event is at the Attenborough Centre for

Creative Arts on the University of Sussex campus. Saturday has

workshops with nobots, moog (werkstatt), Rebel Technology and on

video synthesis and in the evenings there’s performances from

Robert A. A. Lowe, Pye Corner Audio, Russell Haswell and Makaton.

Sunday day time is the modular meet with manufacturers, users, more

performances and all the good stuff that makes the modular community

so great (Trump approved). Head to brightonmodularmeet.co.uk for

more info.

INTERVIEW

AJH Synth make one of the best synth voices I've ever heard with the MiniMod range. It was love a first sight ... or knob wiggle! Allan has been extremely supportive and great to get to know over the past few years or so attending various events and support loads of my various modular ventures. However, like with the videos I stay unbiased and impartial the best I can so set out to ask him some questions so we can all learn a thing or two about him. For example I didn't know he'd made the first polivoks filter clone! Read ahead and get to know Allan the man behind AJH Synths and click play on the various videos around the following pages to check out his modules.

Hi Allan, so to start with how did you get into synths? And what was your first synth?

For as long as I can remember I’ve been interested in both music and electronics, and synths were an obvious way to combine the two. I started playing guitar when I was 12 and my first electronics projects were fuzz boxes and other simple effects pedals. My first ever “synth” was a matrix board stylophone, but not sure that counts as it didn’t have an envelope or filter The first real synth I built was the Powertran Transcendent 2000, which I bought as a kit. To my utter amazement and considerable relief, it worked when I first powered it up - just complete beginners luck at the time.

What got you into electronics? Or fixing synths?

Running a business and having a family forced electronics and music to take a bit of a back seat until I moved to the Isle of Man in 1996. Suddenly I had lots more spare time on my hands and I embraced synth diy and electronics with a new found passion.