OffAir
Firmware for Workshop System Computer (Music Thing Modular)
AM/Shortwave/Longwave radio simulator with heterodyne whistles, SSB detuning and swelling static.
- Distribution
- Prebuilt image you flash yourself
- Source
- github.com https://github.com/TomWhitwell/Workshop_Computer/tree/main/releases/95_offair2
- Homepage
- computer.musicthing.co.uk https://computer.musicthing.co.uk/programs/95-offair2/
- Synced from
- upstream metadata, raw.githubusercontent.com https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TomWhitwell/Workshop_Computer/main/releases/95_offair2/info.yaml. Corrections belong upstream.
- radio
- sampler
- noise
- effect
- generative
- cards
Description
Tune across a virtual shortwave band the way you tune a real receiver. Two Stations and three interference signals are scattered across the dial and re-randomised on every band change. Approaching a Station you hear a sliding heterodyne whistle, the audio pulls into tune and the static ducks away; off-tune it frequency-shifts on SW and LW or distorts on AM. Knob X sets IF bandwidth and brightness, Knob Y the noise floor. Tap the switch down to cycle AM, SW and LW. Hold the switch up for dead air in baked-in mode, or a Pulse In 1-keyed morse Station 2 in audio-input mode. Pulse In 2 fires curated Insta-ference one-shots. Boot with the switch held down to swap the live inputs for baked recordings and make it self-contained.
Install notes
Copy the UF2 onto the Computer's program card (RP2040 bootloader drive).
Version history
| Version | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0.1 | 2026-08-04 | Version and date from the card's info.yaml. |