Here’s a video by Metatron’s Cube showing off the Groovesizer MB with Golf firmware sequencing a Korg Volca Beats.
Author: moshang
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Maker Faire Rome 2014
I loved the whole experience. Besides the fact that this was my first visit to the living museum that is Rome, I had a great time showing off the Groovesizers. As with the Mini Maker Faire in Hong Kong last year, the audience was mostly a non-musician one. On the other hand, most people seemed familiar with Arduinos so I could come at it from that angle.
The younger generation got hands-on with Groovesizers at Maker Faire Rome 2014. One minor niggle is that our stand felt just a little out of the way, and with so much on offer at the Faire, only the most inquisitive bothered to see what was in our display tent. On the third and final day, the six projects in our tent moved ourselves into stalls closer to the main stream of visitors (and the projects in those stall moved themselves outside). It ensured a non-stop stream of visitors – quite the busy day.
As I was alone, I didn’t get a chance to network much with the other makers (doing so would leave my display unattended) – it seems a bit of a missed opportunity. I did manage to give away loads of name cards, though, so at least I know the Groovesizer name got good exposure. It’s hard to measure the impact from attending a show like this, but I’m so glad I went!
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TB2 Demo #2 & #3
With two more weeks left before I leave for Rome to show off the TB2 and other Groovesizers at the European Maker Faire, it’s non-stop work at the moment.
Here are two more TB2 demos:
And this one with reverb and delay:
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RyuX: Groovesizer Random Action
RyuX says, “Just recorded my first little test clip of the Delta Firmware.”
https://soundcloud.com/ryu-x/groovesizer-random-action
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TB2 – Baby’s First Sounds
Here’s a first taste of the TB2 – the Arduino Due synth shield that I’m working on and hope to show off at the Maker Faire in Rome. I’m working on the synth side first (with a sequencer to follow). The TB2 features a 4-voiced paraphonic synth with two oscillators per voice. In addition to the usual suspect wave shapes (Sin, Triangle, Saw, Square, Noise), the TB2 can also load additional waveforms from SD card – I’m currently playing with a smaller set of 2000+ waveshapes from the Adventure Kid library. Right now I’m coding the modulation options (prominent in this patch is LFO to oscillator1 octave – sounds a bit like an arpeggiator). As for the LFO, you can choose any of the basic waveforms, but also any of the waveforms off the SD card – some of the Adventure Kid waveforms deliver really interesting results when used as the LFO shape.
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Going to Maker Faire Rome the European Edition
Yay! My appplication to show off the Groovesizers at the Eurpean edition of the Maker Faire has been accepted. I’ll be in
Rome for the event from October 3-5, 2014. If you’re in the area, do come say hi! -
Bravo Firmware (MB) is here! (VIDEO)
Here’s a first video of the Bravo firmware for the MB. The Bravo you’ll recall is based on the Bleep Labs Bleep Drum – it turns the MB into a 4 voice, 8-bit drum machine. The user manual and complete feature list will be up soon.
UPDATE: the Bravo firmware can be downloaded here. The manual will soon be available in the same page.
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Coursera: Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps
I’ll be starting this Coursera course today. I’m not sure that it will be of direct benefit for programming Groovesizers, but there’s bound to be a bunch of things worth knowing in there.
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New hardware sneak preview
I’m not quite ready to go into details yet, but here’s what ‘s currently on the breadboard.
This time I’ve asked my friend Old Crow to design the PCB. It’ll involve quite a bit of SMT components, so it’ll probably not be a DIY project.
I intend to take the new machine to Indiegogo to take pre-orders for the first batch. We’re still some months off though.
