[sdiy] Speaking of dsPIC microcontrollers...

[Michael Zacherl.]

On Dec21, 2010, at 10:05 , <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:

> Using a dsPIC and SSM2044 and MF10 filters:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJenM5xrqr4
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PV4Us6Uc0M
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kErBx2ZNiwE
> Is that any of y'all? I'd love to read up more on those projects.

Hi Aaron,  thanks for that pointer! 
I met Morris at the annual sdiy-meeting in Cambridge/UK this year and posted what I knew about his project back then.
(see below)
Unfortunately he arrived pretty late on Saturday so there was no time to get more info and to socialise.
The information below and the notes below the clips is all I know by now.
(actually I missed his posting of the first clip in late July since there's no synth-related mention of "Cygnus" anywhere).

As Neil said, hopefully he'll attend next year as well!

;-) Michael. 


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Michael Zacherl." <sdiy-mz01 at blauwurf.info>
> Date: July 13, 2010 11:07:52 AM GMT+02:00
> To: synth-diy <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Subject: [sdiy] Cygnus X-1 (was: Synth-DIY UK Meeting)
> x-mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081)
> 
> Hi,
> 
>       this is a monophonic hybrid synth Morris (not on any list I know) has built.
> 
> It's a work in progress and as far as I remember it comes with two digital OSCs, 
> two waveshapers, two analogue OSCs (coupled to the DOs) a standard (IIRC SFV) 
> and a switched capacitor filter, three LFOs, two EGs, a simple digital sequencer.
> 
> It's all built on veroboard as you can see here:
> http://gallery.sinespine.org/sineSpine/Nc/SDIY/cmbrdg2010/meet/CIMG5528e-685x.jpg.php
> 
> The digital part is based in DSPics without using the DSP portion of the chip as Morris pointed out.
> 
> I played with it a while and although it's not the type of machine I'd look for I liked what I've heard.
> It has quite some character and edges and I appreciate a machine which has not all smoothed out.
> 
> I did a quick search for the synths name (Cygnus X-1) and Morris etc. to find some more accurate info but with no success so far.
> 
> HTH, Michael.
> 
> On Jul 13, 2010, at 09:05 , cheater cheater wrote:
> 
>> Michael,
>> great, thanks for the pics!
>> 
>> So what's this?
>> http://gallery.sinespine.org/sineSpine/Nc/SDIY/cmbrdg2010/meet/CIMG5527e-x685.jpg.php
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> D.
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 21:54, Michael Zacherl. <egroups at blauwurf.info> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> enclosed a pointer to my humble collection of images:
>>> 
>>> http://gallery.sinespine.org/sineSpine/Nc/SDIY/
>>> 
>>> enjoy, Michael.


On Jul13, 2010, at 11:25 , Neil Johnson wrote:

> Thanks Michael.
> 
> Lets hope he comes back next year with more of that synth in operation!
> 
> Cheers,
> Neil

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