Helps you tune your guitar (or any similar instrument), with 5 built-in presets, and the option to set all six strings to any note. Also, with the standard EADGBE tuning, there are Drop D, Drop C, Open G, and Open D tuning presets. All this from the comfort of your Dashboard!

I discovered Tuna Pitch while browsing the widget library at Apple.com last night. At the time, my acoustic was equipped with the Seymour Duncan Woody and plugged into my Apogee, so I figured why not give it a go. I was pleasantly surprised that it worked as advertised. It’s rare that I find a widget that is as useful as this.

flickr photo be gudrun9

Electric Druid Synth DIY pages.

“I’ve finally got around to something that has been a dream for a long while - building my own synthesizer… So far, I’ve managed to write firmware for two devices, a voltage-controlled LFO and a voltage-controlled ADSR envelope generator, modelled on the CEM 3312 and SSM2056.”

I have a love/hate relationship with sites like these. On one hand, the material is fascinating, and I gain a lot of insight on various ways to approach instrument design in Csound. On the other hand, I sooo wish I had the time to hone my soldering iron skills and learn to program for a microcontroller. There must be something entirely satisfying with the hands on approach.

Link via Matrixsynth.

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The Csound Blog
Issue #10

In the previous blog, “Modular Instruments“, I presented an instrument design model that takes advantage of Csound’s modular nature by breaking the common instrument structure apart into three elements: Synth Engine, Memory and Interface. (SEMI)

In todays blog, I create a new synth named MonoSynth based on the original SEMI Simple synth by replacing the zak memory with a memory core based on the chn opcodes, extending functionality of the engine, introducing modulation parameters, and by incorporating a method that links instances of instruments into an audio chain from within the score.

Topics:

• Modular Design
• chn
• Memory
• Signal Routing
• Modulation Instruments

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