Daisyy

A small synthesizer/effect/whatever utilizing the Daisy Seed DSP Board by Electrosmith. The Daisy-Seed is essentially a high powered Arduino with two audio inputs and two audio outputs, inputs for up to 12 knobs or faders and a ton of memory.

This is how the unit looks like:

Features

• 1.3" OLED Display (black and white) with 128×64 pixels
• 8 Knobs (7 can be used in code, 1 is for input volume)
• 6 Buttons (Cherry MX with nice keycaps)
• 2 TS Input Jacks (up to +62 dB gain, works for electrical guitar, dynamic microphones and sound interfaces)
• 2 TS Output Jacks
• RGB-LED for display of audio input levels (color/brightness can be controlled from code)
• DIN-MIDI in (opto-isolated)
• Powered via USB or via external input (7 to 17 VDC)

Soldering instuctions can be found here

Software

The Daisy Seed is a microcontroller with audio capabilities. This means it can become many different things depending on the code uploaded. The Daisy Seed can be programmed using multiple toolchains¹ – in the course we will hover mainly use the Arduino IDE which can be downloaded on arduino.cc. After setting up the toolchain (see here for instructions), the code can be uploaded using the Arduino IDE and a USB-cable.

Finished Software

If you don't want to program a lot yourself finished code to upload can be found here:

Schematic