Even in the train ? 
But yes, zynthian is almost plug and play. No need of external computer.
The first word that came to my mind was… pocket size…
It’s amazing how smd technology make us dive in a world of miniatures…
We are ready to face the announcement from Genetic Control whose “sad duty” is to inform us " of a 4foot restriction on humanoid height"…
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Was it the town of Harlow?
Yes, Mary, and they agreed to leave…
Hello David…
I have been ordering a PCB recently, for a small module… I ordered 3 différents ones, from PCBWAY…
1 is the PCB itself, where the components are all mounted…
1 is the front side, with no copper route, only the serigraphy with text and symbols…
1 is the back side, also with only symbols and text…
The plates will be black with white serigraphy…
As my module is small and simple, it costs me 5$ per plate…
Knowing that your plate would be bigger ( more than 10X10cm) and with a rectangle opening, it would cost 30 or so… ( but you would have 10 of them !!)
I guess the finish will be rather glossy, not matt… maybe you would like, maybe not…
I guess I like your drawbar visualisation… what display did you use ? A 20X4 ?
Because you placed it close to the Zynthian screen, I would have chosen a white on blue… or maybe you can change Zynthian’s screen colors to fit the colors of your display…
Have a nice day…
Thierry
It will not surprise you that I’ve been looking at that …!
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it does not surprise me… “to infinity and beyond!” 
I had a blue 16X2 display that I was going to use but it didn’t work out, it was a little bit to small for the visualisation so I bought the cheapest 20X4 I could find and it was green. But yes the color scheme doesn’t really match.
@MrD Yes, I uinderstand… But maybe you can ask a blue one for Xmas ??
(Changing the color scheme of Zynthian is possible, but that would maybe be a shame… they are nice…)…
Please, share the HDMI Audio configuration. I would like to add it to the list 
BTW, what about the latency?
Pffffff… how dare you be so lazy and greedy !!
Well… I’m even more lazy than you in fact, as my Zynthian is still waitin for me to assembly the different boards…
Maybe I should follow you…
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I set audio to ‘Rbpi On-Board Audio’ and then ran amixer cset numid=3 2 and it seems to survive reboots. Latency seems pretty low for me. SetBFree is very playable. As far as I know the HDMI on the pi uses the same audio bitstream as I2S, but the DAC will vary from screen to screen.
Display is set to Generic HDMI the following custom config
dtparam=audio=on
max_usb_current=1
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_cvt 800 480 60 6 0 0 0
It looks like it should work with the waveshare 5 + usb but I don’t get any audio with it. (screen config is fine though)
Edit: this screen https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jun_Electronic-Raspberry-Capacitive-Screen-Monitor/dp/B07PKPMNZP
The hand in that photo must be teeny tiny!
Edit2: sound sample to sate the monocle. MDA ePiano.
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Stylus!!! Wow, didn’t hold one since the last century…
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Nice idea. I think I would have invented something too if I had not blown my touch screen when building my Zynth. I don’t feel I’m missing out that much, but I keep meaning to replace the screen and check it out again.
I did find though, that for the short time it was working - it was unusable without a Stylus.
Resistive screen though - a capacitive one would be nice.
I’ve decided to build zynthian from what I have laying around as my quarantine project, and here’s my almost success case. No fancy enclosure yet, just a box from frozen vegan patties, but still I’m happy with it.
Here’s what’s inside:
- RPI 3
- Cheap Chinese DAC
- Cheap Chinese screen (without touch)
- Here’s the interesting part: arduino pro micro clone instead of multiplexor for interfacing the encoders
- a lot of messy wires and sloppy soldering
I’d like to say huge thanks to @riban for helping with arduino code
I also made pro micro act as usb midi device, so I can connect it to my laptop with simple micro usb cable. The code still needs some adjustments, though.
I plan to build nice enclosure for all this as a next step, and maybe add midi din input, if it won’t conflict with usb midi.
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Hi,
well done.
Can’t the pro micro act as a bi directional midi interface ???
