Straylight Engineering

DSS-1 and Electronics Resources

DSS-1 Sites

• Korg DSS-1

Software and Test Equipment

• Cadsoft EAGLE is now part of Autodesk.
• Welcome to McCAD EDA Tools
• FPGA and CPLD Solutions from Xilinx, Inc.
• Intronix LA1034 LogicPort
• KiCad PCB (now able to import EAGLE projects)

Components and PC Boards

• eBay
• American Microsemi Hard to find and vintage components
• UTSource Many hard-to-find components at great prices.
• PCB-Pool PCB manufacturing, panel silkscreening, and more
• Bare Bones PCB Low cost short-run PCB’s for prototyping
• PCB Cart PCB manufacturing located in China
• Unicorn Electronics NOS and vintage components
• Seeed Studio
• Basic PCB
• Bittele Electronics Inc. PCB fabrication and assembly, located in Toronto, Ontario Canada
• PCB Index New site, looks interesting
• PCB Shopper Get quotes from multiple PCB manufacturers and assemblers in one place.
• PCBWay PCB manufacturing and assembly.
• JLCPCB PCB manufacturing and assembly. Assembly is limited to one side and their in-house components.
• LCSC is a sister company of JLCPCB. They have a large stock of components at great prices.

Service Centers (North America)

Please note, the DSS-1 kit is not available at present. Going forward, I will be doing all DSS-1 modifications myself. All other projects are user-installable.

• Advanced Musical Electronics (Los Angeles). They service pretty much everything.

Service Centers (Europe)

• Hartmut Schwahn (Germany)
• Synthtaste (Martin Höwner) also makes many synth upgrades.