What a wondeful project! I am enjoying it from the beggining.
The kit was bought by Smart Open Lab, a fablab space inside the University of Extremadura. We are continuosly doing things related with open hardware, sound and music and Zynthian was a MUST for us.
We received the kit “All-in-one” and the four “Controller Modules” and built them easily using the very good documentation of the wiki.
For this initial version, we used:
- RaspberryPi 3
- 2.8” Adafruit PITFT screen
- HifiBerry DAC
- Plastic case of an old external Hitachi hard disc
I had some problems with the MIDI communication with my keyboard (a borrowed M-Audio AxiomPro25) but I was helped by a friend. I had to configure correctly the MIDI ouput of the keyboard.
I share the link of the “decal” we designed to cover the case. We still do not have too much to share…
We are using it since some days, nicely and without problems. We were even using it with many children last friday and was a success. We use it with an external looper and could have thousands of fun hours of live music. We use the standard version of the OS without any add-on.
We have at least two next steps to perform:
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Include the looper inside Zynthian. I think it is already done.
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Include an audio input (maybe via AudioInjector) for processing the electric guitar. We have quite experience doing stompboxes and amplifiers (I have too much of them!) but I would also like to have a portable digital processor. Zynthian seems perfect.
I think there is already good information in this forum. We will study it.
We only can give thanks and more thanks! to all the contributors on this project. It is amazing and very rewarding. And we have just done the version V0.1 of box… hehehe
We will continue spreading the project and trying to help with the next developments.
We will try to record some videos in the next weeks. Please, excuse the low quality of the photos. Mobile phones…
All the best!