I’ve been thinking about building some kind of slightly digital synth lately. I’ve looked at kits like the AVRSYN and MIDIbox, but they end up being rather complicated. I’ve lately been brainstorming a synth that shouldn’t be horribly complicated to build. It’s almost like a mash-up of a few different projects out there:
- An Arduino for the brains, and even sound generation(it’s supposed to be similar in speed to the ATMega controller in the AVRSYN)
- Faders based on the (already Arduino-based) 6-packfader box
- The DAC section of the AVRSYN
If I can find an affordable LCD that can run serially at 31.25kbps(since the RS232 input will be handling MIDI), I may even be able to squeeze in a display, and switching between editing pages (ok, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch).
Now, obviously this wouldn’t win any awards for sound quality – It’ll probably be like a more limited AVRSYN with its 8-bit VA goodness.
Can anyone out there in the blogosphere tell me why this wouldn’t work? I want to get an Arduino anyway for some other projects, and who knows, if this works, maybe I’ll build a production one using an Arduino Stamp…