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:

Initial Feature List

• Full MIDI support
• MIDI hardware daughterboard
• MIDI firmware
• 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)
• Low Pass
• High Pass
• Band Pass
• controllable cutoff and resonance
• 3 Envelope Generators
• Filter cutoff envelope
• Filter resonance
• Amp envelope
• 2 Low Frequency Oscillators
• Patchable to Osc, Filter, or Amp
• saw square, tri, pulse and sine waves

Future Feature List

• On board control surface
• Physical controls (KNOBS!!!)
• Touch Screen
• Additional oscillators, filters, envelopes, and LFOs
• Programmable wavetables for osc and LFOs
• Effects
• Phaser
• Reverb
• Distortion
• Chorus
• Ring Modulation
• Full patchability for modular synth like patches.
• FM Synthesis
• Additive Synthesis
• Phase Distortion Synthesis
• Arpegiator
• Polyphony