MOZZI Synth Sunday Build
Trying out a MOZZI synthesizer that I built.
YAMS (Yet Another MOZZI Synth)
I've been messing about with low performance microcontroller synths for a while, using both custom boards and Arduino Uno and Nano boards. I've also been using some more powerful Arm STM32 boards (that I'll try to demo in the future, but I actually quite like doing stuff with low performance hardware).
Anyway, I'd been playing around with some DSP type stuff with Arduino and ST Microelctronics development boards, used along with some Veroboard (yuk) prototyping. But I really wanted something a bit more permanent to try out code and mods. I usually spin my own pcb designs, but at the time work constraints meant I just didn't have the time. Luckily I found some bare boards online (Universal MOZZI boards) that seemed to fit the bill for what I wanted. Note, I think the boards were from Bad Dog Designs Homepage for Bad Dog Designs (bad-dog-designs.co.uk) (please mention my site if you order some boards). So I got a couple of these boards, had them kicking around for a while and then decided to populate them on a spare Sunday morning.
The boards use an Arduino Nano for the main processor, and they seemed to work well. One minor problem I had with the ones I built was that the MIDI input didn't work, so I had to rework it slightly. Other than that they were very useful boards (All credit to Bad Dog Designs).
After building I tried the board out with some simple MOZZI code (I've used MOZZI prior to this and it is an excellent framework for Arduino based synthesis). Mozzi (sensorium.github.io) There is a video of an initial try-out using examples form the Arduino MOZZI library (linked below). (Please subscribe to my YouTube channel if you can). There are also some more pictures of the board.
Finally I have also identified an ST Microelectronics STM32 development board that should be a direct replacement for the Nano board. When I get the chance I'll try it out and post a video.
