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A synth project
Having had a couple of months break from synths I decided to pick up an old project (early 2025) and start work on it. This is user interface for the rather excellent XVA1 (or XFM2) from Futur3 Sounds so there is nothing of mine sound engine wise in there, so this is a step to getting back into making my own synths. We have a 480×272 TFT with touch screen, 11 OLED displays, 6 rotary encoders, 16 buttons (with LEDs) and a pot for volume (not fitted above). The touch screen is working as are all the OLEDs and buttons. Also the rotary encoders are working. On the back is…
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YASP (Yet Another Synth Project)
ok, ok, I know, I should finish something first…… but…. no seriously, let me explain…. So one of the things that frustrates me is having to sit in my study of an evening to play with my synths, it takes me away from my other half and my Suzi dog. Now my other half usually plays games on her laptop, or sometimes does some coding, so I figured why not make something I can have sat on the sofa next to me instead of needing my lab, power supplies, big screens, etc. So I remembered I had this rather nice little Alchitry FPGA dev board, I found that someone had…