This weekend The Monk Project will be exhibiting the machine at the London Synth and Pedal Expo.
https://synthandpedalexpo.com/london-synth-pedal-expo/
Some photos of the final prototype assembly:
Things to come:
Hey everyone,
I've been working on an open-source hardware platform called T-DSP built around the Teensy 4.1, and this community has been a huge resource along the way.
Building serious desktop or rack-mounted audio gear from scratch is hard...
Yeah.. Yamaha engineers implemented clever tricks to even avoid multiplication. Their custom FM chips did just additions and ROM lookups.
The first ROM was a log-sin waveform table, containing one quarter of a sine wave, 256 samples
long. The...
Synth_Dexed can simply be used without any hardware dependeny, so nearly any 32bit uC can be used... when removing the filter code also without FPU.
It also runs on a RPi-Pico (with limited polyphony)...
That's interesting:
https://www.viscountinstruments.com/products/professionals/piano-keyboards/legend-70s-keyboards/fm-synth-module/
A big Piano manufactorer has a FM module in his program, which specs are very close to Synth_Dexed / MicroDexed...