Re: analogue synth on a usb
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:21 am
I don't know how this works, as the manual doesn't give much away in terms of how you really use it, whether it will work at the same time as another audio interface etc. This side of things I hadn't really gotten round to playing with.winston wrote:although i was a bit dismissive of the idea (like everything i guess ), i've been reading about it and i'm trying to figure out how it works.asm wrote:My thoughts behind doing something similar (but I've only breadboarded it thus so far and was targeting a slightly different form factor) was that a huge cost of an analogue synth is in the controls, case and IO. No one likes tiny knobs and cases, or menu diving. Plus indie developers have no economy of scale to cut costs and make it at a decent price. Offloading the interface to whatever control surface people already have is a much easier and quite a rational direction to take.
There are niggles though - noise floor on usb is often pretty high for a start.
On the whole, I'm pretty jealous as it looks a nice implementation at a nice price.
Could you give me a couple of ideas of how it works, more how you breadboarded your version? was it a raspberry pi breadboard? how did you have the chips that were being the VCO/oscillators? did it require programming/coding?
i like the idea of pi based samplers, or diy samplers for that matter, but i haven't found many sources of info around it. what i have found i have read, but it hasn't given me enough to go on as i've no background in this electrical field. it would be great if you could suggest some things to read about what might be diy instruments like this.
I was breadboarding a xoxbox circuit, I wanted to make a 303 (with mods) in a small stomp box form factor. Plug in a USB and away you go...
I've not really got into the raspberry pi - they are basically fully fledged computers which is a bit much for me. I'm much more into lower level electronics (its actually my job).
If you want to get into any of this have a read of "Make Analog Synthesizers", its quite a nice read. Or try assembling your own eurocrack modules, Thonk is probably a good place to start.