Well I've spent some time doing setup work for the beagle synth. I've gotten Ubuntu up and running in VMWare, and also built an Angstrom distribution via Open Embedded. I was just about to try putting it on my 4GB SDHC card when I ran into my first snag. Apparently the card reader on my laptop does not read SDHC cards. Doh!
Couple that with the fact that everything in my house is in the process of getting packed into boxes means that the Beagle Synth project will be on hold till at least until after we've finished our move. I anticipate having my work area up and running in early august so I shall try and get a proper SDHC reader and continue my trek into beagleboard-land.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Beagle Synth
I've been thinking about doing a project like this for a while, but the fact that I'm strapped for cash has always prevented me from going forward. That changed when I found out that beagleboard.org was having a contest that will supply free beagleboards to interesting projects. So I decided to submit my idea for using the beagleboards on board DSP for a synthesizer project. Low and behold the judges liked my idea! A few days later this puppy (lol puns) showed up at my door:
I've set up a project space on google code and am in the process of getting my development environment set up. I'll most more news as I make more progress. For now here are some of the intended features of the Beagle Synth:
I've set up a project space on google code and am in the process of getting my development environment set up. I'll most more news as I make more progress. For now here are some of the intended features of the Beagle Synth:
- Full MIDI support
- Monophonic
- 3 oscillators
- saw, square, triangle, pulse, and sine waves
- Linear and exponential frequency modulation
- Pulse width modulation
- Detune
- 3 filter types (1 actual filter)
- 3 Envelope Generators
- 2 Low Frequency Oscillators
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