An Introduction
I was just looking over some of my notes I made during the development of this synthesizer. I think it’s really come a long way considering this:
- This is my first synthesizer project.
- This is my first Arduino project.
- I’ve never been able to touch a modular synthesizer in my life much less an analog synth.
The goal of this project was to make a patchable synthesizer as versatile as we can while keeping the cost down. Since I know how to program C++ and have a basic understanding of electronics we chose to use an arduino.
So far we’ve stayed pretty true to that goal. With just the arduino, a resistor chip, some recycled wood, and a lot of help in the form of interface components (plugs and jacks) from my old electronics teacher we have a working synthesizer.. and to be honest the results so far are much better than we expected.
In the posts to come I’ll talk about some of the obstacles we needed to overcome and give some sources of code/schematics from where I got a few of my ideas.
