Hi. Assuming you folks chosing zynthian as an option are interested in building things yourself to your liking I would be interested in things you build aside zynthian out of curiosity and for inspiration.
I’ll start. I bought a set of a lonesome amp unit of an Ampeg RB110 bass amplifier together with a speaker from a Marshall guitar amp for 25€ from an eBay derivate locally. I turned it into a bass amp like this:
As you can see it is actively checking that the bell tower isn’t moving and what temperature it is..
The previous attempt involved lasers . . .
It listens to clocks and then correlates with a pre recorded sample of the hour strike, generating a n offset from the time with reference to a GPS derived 1kHz 0.1 sec tone and displays the offset on the outer rim of the above display.
Simple really.
It also speaks qmidinet and can sing the hours . . .
Originally an overly complicated, threaded timing engine but there is only so much grunt in a Pi zero 2W and I’ve handed the timing duties over to systemd which seems to want to do everything as root.
A short while ago i finished my 19-inch, 1u rack with dreamDexed on it (8 instances of DX7 on steroids with chorus, delay, reverb, eq, compressor). Also thought that i could run jv880 on it but at this moment i can’t (as most builds only support up to rPI3 and below).
I’m on rPI5 with this due to:
possibility to start/stop by NO button with explicit header on board for this purpose
ability (in theory) to use boot-manager to boot from USB (connectivity at the front to the right where nowadays a USB-C stick is connected through a panel mounted interface. Time will tell i guess if it will ever become supported)
up to 32 voices per TG with room to grow.
for now, it is a rather perfect FM machine and fingers crossed that the authors of virtualJV forks will support rPI5 in the future.
Thx Kirtai. I hope you have fun building yours as well
I was quite pleased with miniDexed (needless to say) but then dreamDexex came along with that glorious juno-chorus and awesome delay and I must say this is FM nirvana. 8 instances of that classic rhodes sound with chorus and delay is over the top …
I recorded this a while back as a demo. I didn’t dare to put it on my regular SC accunt (last time i did a foolish remix with some well known vocals, i got a life-time ban). From my “burner” account (where i deliberately fronted the FM timbres):
Hi, this is my “Zast Chord” a self designed chord beased Keytar. I´m a bit proud of it as I did almost all things by myself, designing and building corpus, doing the whole Software, develop circuit diagrams. Except the PCB´s, these were designed by my son based on my diagrams.
You can see it in a small video on youtube Midi Controller Keytar DIY project by (Zast)
And my next project is modifying a Hothouse Daisy-seed pedal to add midi input and turn it into a quantized looper pedal. It mostly works, but still need to get it to recognize the play/transport to start the correct beat start point.
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