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Open Source Synth Update: A Firmware Revelation

My God, we’ve done it! Will put together the final piece that allows us to finally put this project in to the sunset phase. He confirmed by rolling back the compiler to GCC 4.3.3 (the original compiled version) we could get the unit to actually work as it is supposed to. Apparently, AVR-GCC is available…

Open Source Synth: State of the Project February 2024

Building The Source It’s been a while since my last post, so I thought it prudent to provide a State of the Project update for the Shruthi Clone. A major breakthrough came in understanding the firmware build chain. Until late last year, the build process yielded a loadable hex file that enabled some functions of…

So Ive Debugged it!

***Originally written July 2023 After my last post on this project I thought I was losing my mind and all hope was lost. But now I have figured a fundamental boneheaded mistake out and am moving forward again! I had to address two conflicting theories to resolve this. First, I didn’t trust the custom makefile…