Synthux AcademyDIY platforms
Daisy Seed board with 80 control slots for building your own instrument
Simple Designer is a larger PCB from Synthux Academy with 80 slots for potentiometers, switches and jacks, intended for building a complete instrument around a Daisy Seed. The kit contains the Designer board, a Fix board, a Daisy Seed, Rogan knobs, twelve 10K pots, a slide pot, switches, jacks and hookup wires. Several Synthux instruments, including Audrey and Canvas, started on this board.
The board is wired by the builder, so each instrument ships with its own wiring and firmware. Official firmware binaries are flashed to the Daisy Seed with the Daisy Web Programmer (Chrome or Edge, Seed in bootloader mode) or built with the Daisy toolchain and dfu-util.
Synthux's repository of instruments and sketches for the Simple Designer board: official Audrey II, Canvas and Spotykach folders, plus workshop example sketches for FM, oscillator, filter and subtractive synths.
Cordless patchable West Coast synthesizer for the Simple Designer inspired by the Buchla Easel, with wiring cheat sheet, hardware files and a prebuilt binary.
by Lucas Bonvin, Synthux Academy