Nov 2 2009

Arduino Piano Gets an Open Source “Squealer” Synth Engine

by Peter Kirn

Clean is overrated. If you’re ready for a little digital dirt in your synth life, powered by the open-source Arduino hardware, Marc Nostromo’s Squealer is for you. Built atop the wonderful, Arduino-based Pocket Piano kit by Critter and Guitari, it’s a full-blown, simple, digitally-gritty synthesis engine.

You get a monosynth, some fixed waveforms, a resonant filter, decay, and some aliasing tricks for extra grit. The big news: the Arduino Piano Squealer is now under a GPL license.

Official Arduino Piano Squealer Synth Page has everything you need
Announcement of GPL v3
All at Mustalk@noisepages.com

Here’s what it sounds like:

SAP+BOM+Dodgey Eighties Ringing Reverb:
apbom.mp3

Eery piano:
ap-eery.mp3

SAP+Flanging Mini KP:
ardboy1.mp3

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Alva Farran

Regularly I do not make comments on blogs, but I have to mention that this post really forced me to do so. Really nice post.. I'm currently working on Fishbone Diagram project.

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piano instrumental

man, this is insane! would have never thought that this works!

digital pianos

its too small yet it’s a full-blown, simple, digitally-gritty synthesis engine.that device has many advantages,it has fixed waveforms, a resonant filter, decay, and some aliasing tricks.