This is the build guide for my MiniDexed Raspberry Pi V1 IO Board. Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! These are the key tutorials for the main concepts used in this project: MiniDexed: “Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi MiniDexed DX7 Raspberry Pi … Continue reading MiniDexed Raspberry Pi V1 IO Board – Part 2
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MiniDexed Raspberry Pi V1 IO Board
I already have two different IO boards for use with MiniDexed on a Raspberry Pi and whilst MiniDexed works best on a Pi 3 or 4, providing 8 full DX7-compatible tone generators, it is also possible to run it on a V1 Raspberry Pi, although it is limited in performance to a single tone generator. … Continue reading MiniDexed Raspberry Pi V1 IO Board
Raspberry Pi v1 Model B Synth Board – Part 3
This is the build guide for my Raspberry Pi v1 Model B Synth Board PCB. https://youtu.be/dNflll0_iJQ Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments! If you are new to microcontrollers, single board computers and electronics, then see the Getting Started pages. … Continue reading Raspberry Pi v1 Model B Synth Board – Part 3
Raspberry Pi v1 Model B Synth Board – Part 2
This is a bespoke PCB design for my Raspberry Pi v1 Model B Synth Board which I was using with my "Bare Metal" Raspberry Pi Synth. Update: Build Guide here: Raspberry Pi v1 Model B Synth Board – Part 3 Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments. I am not responsible … Continue reading Raspberry Pi v1 Model B Synth Board – Part 2
“Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi MiniDexed DX7
One project I've had my eye on for some time is Dexed: "Dexed is a multi platform, multi format plugin synth that is closely modeled on the Yamaha DX7". More specifically I noticed there was a version for the Teensy called microDexed that I really wanted to try; that it is also one of the synth … Continue reading “Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi MiniDexed DX7
Raspberry Pi I2S Audio Interface
This post looks at how to use a cheap I2S digital to analog converter as the audio output interface for a Raspberry Pi V1 model B and a Raspberry Pi Zero V1. As I mentioned last time, there are a number of ready-made "off the shelf" add-on boards you can get for the Raspberry Pi … Continue reading Raspberry Pi I2S Audio Interface
Raspberry Pi v1 Model B Synth Board
If you've been following along, you'll know I've been playing around with an original Raspberry Pi v1 model B as the engine for some digital sound synthesis. This is a slight project tangent to build an analog IO and MIDI add-on board. Note that this does not conform to any standard for Raspberry Pi add-ons … Continue reading Raspberry Pi v1 Model B Synth Board
“Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi Synth – Part 3
This project uses an off-the-shelf analog IO board for the Raspberry Pi for my "bare metal" Raspberry Pi v1 (model B) synth. Full index of posts in this series: Part 1: The basics of setting up an environment to build a “bare metal” Raspberry Pi synth application. Part 2: Adding potentiometer controls via an MCP3008 … Continue reading “Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi Synth – Part 3
“Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi Synth – Part 2
This post builds on part 1 and starts to add some IO handling code and simple synthesis code to the bare metal Raspberry Pi experiments. Full index of posts in this series: Part 1: The basics of setting up an environment to build a “bare metal” Raspberry Pi synth application. Part 2: Adding potentiometer controls … Continue reading “Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi Synth – Part 2
“Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi Synth
The Raspberry Pi is an "SBC" - a single board computer, whilst the Arduino (and the Raspberry Pi Pico for that matter) is a microcontroller. Simplistically a single board computer is, well, what most people would think of when they think about a computer - a board (with or without a case!) that you plug … Continue reading “Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi Synth