Tag: Raspberry Pi

Zynthian: Fun with Dexed

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Over the weekend, I had a wild hair up my ass to buy some kind of FM synth off of Reverb.com, because I needed a multitimbral sound source to get some use out of the 8 MIDI tracks of my Octatrack, which I powered up after a long work-filled hiatus. I wanted the FM sounds of the early 80’s

Back in the late 80’s and early 90’s we had a Yamaha TG33, which was a multitimbral, digital FM synthesizer with a joystick for doing vector-based modulation. Like its cousins of the time, the TX81z, the TG55, SY77 et al, it … Read the rest

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PureData with Pi

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I’m down a damn rabbit hole today.  I have a Raspberry Pi 4 B,

an Audioinjector Stereo HAT:

a Novation Launchpad,  We’re going to save this part for another day.  The Launchpad shows up as the first device, and the audioinjector setup scripts don’t like it when the audioinjector HAT isn’t the first device.

and Windows 10 running the Debian distro under Windows Subsystem for Linux.  

This got going because I was so terribly impressed with the Empress Zoia:

This little stompbox is essentially a modular synth powered by the Puredata programming language, a nodey-gui way of … Read the rest

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