Given how sleek the exterior looked, I wasn't expecting the inside to be a bunch of loose or taped down dev boards and proto boards soldered together with a bunch of individual wires haha. Before that part of the video, I would have guessed you made some nice PCB with everything integrated. It was also more digital than I would have guessed. Cool video
honestly it's kind of intresting how there's 2 ways you can make something you can choose to go for the outcome only doesn't matter what's inside as long as you get the desired outcome you see this alot with how games are designed than there is the idea of making it efficient and good as possible hoping to achieve your desired outcome in a manner you'd consider clean or usable as like a base. I tend to see this alot more when people design stuff for manufacturing.
This is just great in all aspects - the electronics, user interface and the synth :D The whole concept of drawing the waveform is great in it's simplicity and at the same time how it can at once control to some extend the frequency, envelope and shape of the waveform.
Nice sound!! This reminds me of the feeling of the 70's. I'm sure back in the 60's the developers of the most amazing analog synths started out be doing exactly this. Heck I have noodled like this myself designing tiny digital/analog (vactrol) synths and it can be amazing how great and unique it can sound, plus it's all yours!
Im actually more impressed you did this with micro-controllers rather than a purely analog system. And honestly you fooled me. I thought for sure it was analog. But I guess our ears cant tell anyways. Good stuff man!
The apparent presence of ‘being’ is replaced by a broken “non-origin”. But the market is flooded with thousands of synthesizers, real or virtual, retro-fit sample libraries, cheap codified emulations of 70s and 80s mixing desks, compressors, delays, echoes and reverb washed up from the past. Pastiche, acquisition and repetition? “The no longer and the not yet” coexist, in the fascination with television, vinyl records, audiotape, lo-fi and with the sounds of these technologies in decay. Defined as “materialized memory” (by Fredric Jameson) is perhaps the presence of hauntology within genres of electronic music, especially audible post 2000.
I'm heavily vested in 25 years of modular building and buying, and I haven't encountered this design approach. I love the control layout. its really refreshing and has and eloquent knob-to-function design. I really think if this was commercially available it would be a huge success! (wish I had one!)
There are some of your projects that are like haha that’s dumb and cool and I could do it, then there’s ones like this which are genuinely amazing, excellent project and video!
It would be totally awesome if you were to make Rscope2 into a standard 3U eurorack module and sell DIY kits/pcb+panel, because I would be absolutely honored to make space to fit this into my little rack.
idea: instead of bar graphs, tiny camcorder viewfinder CRTs. (at least for the interpolation - the visual of that on the oscope is super nice) oh, i should have finished watching. if youre using arduinos in there anyways, i guess tiny oleds would make more sense... but the Aesthetics of a tiny crt in there would be unbeatable imo
What a great build - and love the final sounds it makes. I know you've posted the code for the flash synth, but is this project of yours to be like an 'open source' per-se where we can download the schematics, build plate templates, etc.? THank you for posting this vid!
Bravissimo! Excelsior! Ingenious! You have now stirred in my soul an overpoweringly covetous yearning for this magical box. How can it be mine? Name your price, sir, for I must have one!
Pretty impressive that you made all this yourself mate! Well done!. I think you missed a trick though, imagine if you had used motorised faders instead? And obviously a mode that turns them on or off, and have them whirring up and down as the wave shape changes when you twiddle the knobs. Anyways, theres probably a perfectly logical reason why you didn’t do that and I’m just too dumb to know what that reason is, nevertheless, pretty damn cool. Subbed and away to watch some of your other stuff.
The exact shape of the waveform matters a fair bit in modular synthesis. The point of this module is basically a much smarter version of the usual sine/square/triangle/sawtooth wave switch on a VCO.
As far as I understood: not really, but it has a similar effect. It directly affects the signal generation, but smoother interpolation does reduce the amount of overtones and harmonics the waveform creates, so it's a similar effect to a filter.
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Funny you say that the keystep is bad as a midi controller. Its one of the most highly recommend and regarded midi controllers in the synth community. Arp, sequencer, midi, cv, pitch and bend strips. Its reliable, and super cheap. Absolutely love your synth! So cool!
