[sdiy] Chipophone

[Amos]

That approach makes a good deal of sense actually - the alternative
would be to roll your own protocol for conveying player input to the
sound engine, which sounds like unneccessary work to me. :)

Cool project!

On 7/24/10, Tom Arnold <xyzzy at sysabend.org> wrote:
> From Slashdot today :
> http://www.linusakesson.net/chipophone/index.php
>
> The Chipophone is a homemade 8-bit synthesizer, especially suited for live
> chiptune playing. It has been built inside an old electronic organ.
>
> All the original tone-generating parts have been disconnected, and the keys,
> pedals, knobs and switches rerouted to a microcontroller which transforms
> them into MIDI signals. Those are then parsed by a second microcontroller,
> which acts as a synthesizer.
>
> ---
>
> It is sorta interesting that he started by converting the organ to midi and
> then adding sound on the backend.
>
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