Floot Duet #001

JovianPyx · Last edited by JovianPyx on Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:25 am; edited 2 times in total

This started out as a test of my single dsPIC MIDI synthesizer board.

The instrument used is called Floot, or a Floot.

It is a bastardized additive synthesizer in that there are four sound sources, a high quality sine wave, a high quality sine wave an octave above, a distorted sinewave (at the fundamental's pitch) and a noise source. It might be disqualified as an additive synth except that the distorted sine wavetable is still composed of a sum of other sinewaves. It might also be disqualified as an additive synth because of the noise source. The noise is used to provide a breath sound. There is no filter in the audio path in this synthesizer.

It uses pretty much all of the dsPIC except for a small amount (about 1 MIP) for the MIDI controller.

The three sound sources are mixed according to performance directives given through velocity and mod wheel. The synth also has controls for portamento and "air".

There is some pitch bending in the piece, this was done via pitchwheel, the synth has a plus or minus one semitone pitchwheel range. The synth is also capable of portamento.

As I played around with the instrument, I decided to record it. Then I laid down another track using the same instrument. Afterward I added the gverb reverb effect. Here is what came out. Sorry - yes, it is essentially mono.

JovianPyx_Floot_Duet_001.mp3

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JovianPyx: Floot Duet #001

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