Teensy3 String Machine

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quarterturn

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It's working good enough to share so here it is: https://github.com/quarterturn/teensy3-string-machine

This is a 32-voice 'string machine' meant for the pjrc.com teensy 3.6 and the blackaddr audio interface. It depends on the Teensy Audio Ensemble Chorus library found here: https://github.com/quarterturn/teensy3-ensemble-chorus.

I think it sounds pretty nice. 32 voices is enough for long release settings without audible note stealing. CPU utilization is about 30% on a Teensy 3.6, so it will probably run on a lesser Teensy 3.

The ensemble and phaser are fixed, as for me the represent the sweet-spots of their setting for what I want. You can control the dry/wet mix of the phaser. If there's a big call for it, I'll make them configurable.

Check the readme.md on github for more info.
 
demo video

Here it is: https://youtu.be/yDEagM8vqhU

Audio is just through the phone mic, as at the moment I don't have a convenient stereo-in capture setup. The ensemble effect is stereo and would sound a lot better as such. Everything you hear is from the synth code, including the phaser. I tried to include some long release settings to demonstrate the 32-voice poly. Unfortunately you can hear that the envelope function is linear; release tails end abruptly and sound rather unnatural. Exponential curves would be much better.

My Macbook dev environment is unfortunately broken at the moment thanks to upgrading to Catalina.
 
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