The same old enter system for taking part in a synthesizer is the nice outdated piano keyboard. Nonetheless, you don’t have to stay to such pedestrian interfaces when making music. [Daisy] has a enjoyable construct that exhibits us the right way to put collectively a ribbon synth that makes fantastic little noises.
Naturally, the guts of the construct is a ribbon potentiometer (also called gentle pots). It’s basically a contact delicate strip that adjustments in resistance relying on the place you contact it. You’ll be able to slide your finger up and all the way down to differ the output repeatedly; in musical contexts, they will behave slightly like a fretless instrument. [Daisy] employs one among these potentiometers in such a job by hooking it as much as a Daisy Seed microcontroller board, which reads it with an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The resistance values are used to differ the pitch of a dual-saw synthesizer programmed within the plugdata framework.
We’ve featured another nice ribbon synths over time, too, like this tribute to the Eowave Persephone. They’re not the best alternative for people who choose their notes on pitch, however they’re fantastically enjoyable to play with if you’re getting a little bit extra experimental.
