One mans attempt to recreate a 12 year old Analog digital synthesizer in 3 months… and his eventual completion of the project. Trials and tribulations of open hardware, source control, silicon parts lead time. open GCC versions, transconductance filters, axial lead installation, and more.
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…
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…
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…
Open Source Synth: Project Update
July 2023 Update (5ish months in) Its hard to believe how much (or how little) can happen in five months. So I wanted to do an update on where I’ve gotten to on this…
Open Source Synth Build (Pt. 1 Hardware Design and Forking)
Forks and Branches The starting point for the new Shruthi synth was to fork from Pichenettes Github. https://github.com/pichenettes/shruthi-1 A fork is a personal copy of an existing Github project that the developer can do…
Open Source Synth Build (Introduction)
Project Goals Introduction I’ve been thinking about a new hobby project for 2023. Last year I dove somewhat deep into USB drivers and proprietary Microchip libraries which had my head spinning when i just…
John (Jake) Kolb III 