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New PCB Work
May 7, 2023, 11:17 p.m.The Tindie store has been out of stock for a bit as I work on updating the PCB and making some adjustments to the code to improve performance (more on…
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Update and Coming in 2023
Dec. 23, 2022, 12:33 p.m.Here's where things are at the moment. I made a batch of SquishBox kits and units available in the store, after a short delay waiting for parts and making some…
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Vortex Wireless 2 Teardown
Oct. 16, 2022, 10:46 p.m.I decided to open up my keytar for the purpose of cleaning, but also to see if I could figure out what kind of MCU it has with the idea…
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SquishBox PCB Update
Dec. 15, 2021, 2:32 a.m.New PCB with a rotary encoder
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FluidPatcher Power Up
May 17, 2021, 4:31 p.m.I was poking around in the Fluidsynth code as a result of trying to figure out a slick way to monitor MIDI messages and realized I could get FS to…
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ModSynth Update
Feb. 24, 2021, 9:39 p.m.I took some time to add and properly adjust a bunch of modulators in the ModSynth font. Now one has easy access to most of the useful synth parameters via…
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Maybe Break Stuff?
Feb. 17, 2021, 2:37 p.m.I just realized bank files are designed wrong! Right now, keywords like router_rules, cc, and cc_links can be used within individual patches or at bank level (i.e. zero indent). Bank-level…
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Update/Install Script
Feb. 11, 2021, 12:45 a.m.I devoted a couple days to some bash programming and wrote a script for Raspberry Pi that can install/configure everything for the SquishBox or headless Pi synth. The user selects…
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Leveling Up
Dec. 9, 2020, 5:58 a.m.I sold out of my first batch of SquishBoxes that I built using standard perfboard, so I decided to get serious and print some PCBs. This will make the next…
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Headless Pi Synth
June 10, 2020, 4:59 p.m.I've put together a headless implementation of FluidPatcher that works on a Raspberry Pi without the need for any extras (i.e. buttons/screens) by polling for specific CC messages to change…