Synths (29)

Paula

So what next?

Now that I've finished the b version of the LT6502, what next? I think I'm going to pause 6502 things for a while, I have two music projects that I would really like to start work on, but I need to finish this other music…

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Paula

A synth project

Having had a couple of months break from synths I decided to pick up an old project (early 2025) and start work on it. This is user interface for the rather excellent XVA1 (or XFM2) from Futur3 Sounds so there is nothing of mine sound…

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Paula

It's been a month, or two

It's been a while since I wrote, a lot has been going on. Firstly, the Transputer saga, I got a PCB from Oscar Toledo (https://github.com/nanochess/transputer) and confirmed that my TRAMs did indeed pass the tests with his card. However they did not with mine. Then…

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Paula

Retro computing and projects

I have, as many of you probably know, a bit of a thing for retro computing. This doesn't help with my ongoing stack of projects. But it is what it is. Lately I've dived deep into the world of Transputers. I also have a PC104…

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Paula

Time for a change, just for a while

These days my day-job keeps me very busy, I enjoy what I do but it does mean I have very little energy left by the end of the week. With that in mind, I've made a decision; I will be pausing synth development (other than…

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Paula

YASP update & name

I've decided on a name, at least for now, TinySynth. Basically because, well, it's tiny. So a lot has, and hasn't happened, it's sort of being developed in fits and starts as and when I have the beans to work on it. Which I'm fine…

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