Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Axoloti - Embed A Digital Modular Synth In Your Instrument



This is very special to me.  This is exactly what I have been looking to do with the digital music instruments I have been designing and building - Give them a modular synthesizer editor.

This is a software and a hardware project.  It lets you graphically edit a patch for a DSP-based music instrument, then upload it into a small circuit board.  That means you can put that instrument into a box with sensors and controls, make a digital guitar, tune it to sound just the way you like it and even put all kinds of digital effects on it!  It's a very difficult and important project and I am sure it will lead to very many interesting kinds of new instruments, songs, performances and possibly even genres of art!

Here are the specs:
  • Two 1/4" jacks
  • Stereo headphone output
  • MIDI Input
  • STM32F4 processor (168 MHz w/ FPU)
  • USB
  • Modular synth editor on Desktop
  • Cross-Platform support (Lin/Win/OSX)
  • Approximately $100 incl. shipping

I highly recommend supporting Axiloti on Indiegogo.  I look forward to working with it a lot in 2015!