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YASP (Yet Another Synth Project)
ok, ok, I know, I should finish something first…… but…. no seriously, let me explain…. So one of the things that frustrates me is having to sit in my study of an evening to play with my synths, it takes me away from my other half and my Suzi dog. Now my other half usually plays games on her laptop, or sometimes does some coding, so I figured why not make something I can have sat on the sofa next to me instead of needing my lab, power supplies, big screens, etc. So I remembered I had this rather nice little Alchitry FPGA dev board, I found that someone had…
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Even more synth updates
Things have been moving with synth projects this last month, first up the Quardowave card for the Isla Instruments Caladan has arrived, I’ve assembled it, checked power and got blink working on the CPUs. I still have to debug the VCFs but the other parts, like DACs and VCAs are the same as the OPL3 card I’ve been working on for Isla Instruments, so they shouldn’t be a problem. The next job is coding the CPUs and getting some sounds out.I’m looking forward to getting this up and running and making some sounds, it should sound epic. In other news the prototype voice holder for Delta has arrived and been…
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What’s been happening?
Well I failed at posting once a month, my bad. A lot has been going on since March. I’ve been talking to the new owners of Modal Electronics on and off, since September, and I just stepped away from it. My reasons? There are a few, but mostly because their vision and what I am passionate about in synths are very different things. There were a number of other factors involved, but I won’t go into them. I’ve also not been well, for the couple of weeks I’ve been having major chest pains that come and go, a few days ago I ended up in an ambulance on my way…