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SquishBox Major Hardware Redesign
Oct. 24, 2024, 7:55 p.m.I've been working on another SquishBox PCB revision that's been cooking in my mind for a while. The basic idea started with something pretty mundane: I got tired of connecting…
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Introducing FluidPatcher
May 1, 2020, 9:32 p.m.I've been gradually separating the SquishBox software from the SquishBox hardware, and I've decided to give the software its own name: FluidPatcher. The SquishBox is still the hardware interface, but…
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JamPi Becomes SquishBox
Oct. 30, 2018, 11:07 a.m.I've been starting to think more about the JamPi as something other people might actually use, rather than a box that exists primarily to amuse me. I've also had requests…
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Making MIDI Do More
March 24, 2018, 4:03 p.m.I've been increasingly dissatisfied with the idea that the MIDI router should only know how to talk to FluidSynth. There's no particular reason a MIDI message should have to end…
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JamPi Rebuild
Oct. 13, 2017, 9:57 p.m.Using the JamPi as a performance tool for a while got me thinking about ways I could design it better from a hardware perspective. My main thoughts were: Improve sound…
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Learning to FluidSynth
May 6, 2016, 3:23 p.m.I figured out some more things that are starting to make me realize the power of FluidSynth as a synth engine. To start, I purchased one of the newly-released Pi…
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Raspberry Pi in a Box
April 2, 2016, 6:14 p.m.I've spent a good amount of time since the last update improving the JamPi to the point where I can take it on stage and be reasonably confident it's going…
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Teaching FluidSynth Some New Tricks
Feb. 21, 2016, 5:45 p.m.There is a python package pyfluidsynth that has ctypes bindings that directly use the FluidSynth API, rather than using subprocess to talk to the clunky FluidSynth shell. However, this library…
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Raspberry Pi Stompbox Synth
Nov. 23, 2015, 11:11 p.m.I've put together a little Raspberry Pi synthesizer/sampler/sound module in a box, with stomp switches and a 16x2 character LCD. It has 1/4" audio outputs connected to a sound card…