65 Reply by BTS

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They posted that on the Midibox forums awhile back.  I don't remember if that was a combo of Midibox and Arduino hardware or all Midibox.

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66 Reply by BTS

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Hey Oliver, thanks for coming on the board.

I've seen and heard some of the samples as they've been posted.  The new one sounds great!

I can't wait to pick one of these puppies up!

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67 Reply by BTS

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Shruti-1 page with more info and pre-order questionnaire:

http://mutable-instruments.net/

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68 Reply by BTS

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Signed up.  Hoping to try some other handhelds and software. Last year it was all DS-10 and effects.  This year I'm going to try PSPSEQ and LGPT.

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69 Reply by BTS

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New video posted.  Has some very interesting audio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NK-p_tF … _embedded#

"Playing with the Shruti-1 proto and a fat oscillator stack (osc1: pwm ; osc2: saw, slightly detuned ; square sub-oscillator mixed at 50%). Later, the volume of osc2 and the sub-oscillator is set to 0, and I scan through the waveform shapes (note that there's a fair amount of PWM routed to osc1)"

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70 Reply by BTS

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I'd not only love to see some more Genesis stuff, I'd love it if someone came out with a way to access the Game Gear soundchip(s?).

Something like mGB would be awesome!

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71 Reply by BTS

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AWESOME!!

I didn't know he'd released any of this stuff yet.  I'll have to keep a closer eye on it and see if he gets to a release point on the board.

That and a parts list and it's some DIY synth goodness!

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72 Reply by BTS

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Yeah.  It'll be interesting to see the cost for PCBs and parts.  I'm starting to look forward to this more than the OP-1, especially after teenage engineering said the OP-1 was going to cost about $700.

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73 Topic by BTS

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I didn't see other posts about this here, so I thought I'd mention an interesting hardware synth I saw via Palm Sounds.

http://the-palm-sound.blogspot.com/2010 … specs.html

I/O:

    * mono audio output and input (input is sent to filter/VCA).
    * MIDI in/out.
    * 3 CV inputs (0-5V) on pin header.
    * TX/RX/RST pins for onboard programming with an usb->serial chip.

Interface:

    * 12 LEDs (current page / modulation matrix visualization).
    * 2x16 LCD display.
    * 5 switches to navigate through 12 parameter pages.
    * 4 pots for patch editing (4 parameters per page).
    * 2 inc/dec switches.

2 digital oscillators:

    * Available for Osc1&Osc2:
    * band limited wavetables: pulse, square (with pulse-width modulation), triangle with waveshapping, sawtooth.
    * Available only for Osc1:
    * sawtooth with sweepable resonance (casio cz-like).
    * simplistic FM.
    * lo-fi vowel synthesis (think “speak and spell”).
    * cheap 8bit waveforms with plenty of aliasing.
    * cheap square/PWM with even more aliasing.
    * colored noise.
    * 32 waveforms sweepable wavetable.
    * “sweep” oscillator which scans through all the waveforms.
    * Noise & sub-oscillator.

Modulation and filtering:

    * CEM3379 filter.
    * 2 LFO (square, sawtooth, triangle, sample & hold), syncable to tempo & MIDI clock.
    * 2 ADSR envelopes.
    * 16-steps step sequencer.
    * 14 patchcords modulation matrix (16 modulation sources, 11 destinations). Modulation sources include MIDI controllers, pitch bend wheel and modulation, CV inputs, gater…

Performance:

    * Arpeggiator with 15 different patterns + each of them with direction and octave setting.
    * Support for (some) indian/arabic scales.
    * “Patch performance” page in which 4 user-selectable parameters can be assigned to the 4 editing pots.

Others:

    * MIDI implementation with patch load/save by SysEx, patch editing by NRP.
    * Patch memory: 16 patches."

There are sound samples here: http://soundcloud.com/mutable-instruments/tracks?page=1
Photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mutableinstruments/

It looks like these will be done in small runs.  More info on what's going on here: http://www.bhajis-garden.org/forums/vie … php?p=4059

Thoughts?

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