Once again I am convinced that you are a talented storyteller! Very accessible and detailed. It will be extremely interesting how you will explain the manual for the operation of the schmidth synthesizer! ;)
Good video mate. This is one of the few synths that I played for 10 minutes and bought immediately. I already know when to use it in songs. When a synth designer can read my mind I will buy it and make music with it. The binaural effect is the fourth dimension of stereo
An FPGA is a chip that you can, sort of, design yourself. What you do is write something resembling a computer language, and this gets translated to how the logic gates inside the FPGA get connected. But you're not running software: you're actually creating a new chip, as it were. In recent years, FPGAs have been used to recreate the logic chips from home computers of the 1980s, or even the entire computers themselves, because their chips are becoming increasingly rare. In those days, chips would contain thousands of logic gates rather than millions or more, so it's feasible to recreate them in an FPGA. Another example is the chip that generates the waveforms in a Yamaha DX7. There is a series of articles by someone who has meticulously analysed the chip, and from there it should be entirely possible to recreate the logic with an FPGA. FPGAs are also reprogrammable. They're really development platforms, and once you're happy with the chip design, you can turn it into an ASIC, which is faster and cheaper to mass-produce. But with a niche product such as a synthesiser, the cost is not worth it, and an FPGA will do the job. I don't know enough about the subject to state whether it's possible to recreate analogue circuitry with an FPGA.
@nathan bell. In binaural mode, left and right side both have their own LFO1. The left and right LFO1 can then be put 'out of phase' from each other with the phase slider. This gives a more stereo soundscape. For example, if you patch LFO1 to the filter cutoff (this connection has a dedicated slider) with a sine wave as an LFO, the filter cutoff will go up and down gradually right? With the LFO1 phase slider, you can make it so that when the left is completely up the right is completely down, or somewhere in between (e.g. the left is completely up and the right is halfway up).
