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Macchiato Mini Synth: Open-Source, Palm-Sized Synthesizer
In this video from Zeppelin Design Labs, we watch a fun montage featuring the Macchiato Mini Synth, a palm-sized, open-source digital synthesizer that is available as both a standalone as well as a DIY kit.
If you are an Arduino enthusiast, you can even re-program and hack the open-source software code, or download new software from ZDL and flash it to your Macchiato for a whole new sound. Fun for DIY audio enthusiasts, geeks, 8-bit chip music nerds, musicians, hacks, sound engineers, kids, aunts, gramps and champs.
Macchiato Features
- Capacitive Touch Keyboard, 13 keys, 2-note polyphony
- MIDI IN to controll your Macchiato from any MIDI device
- Wave Shape Select: Sine, Triangle, Saw, Square
- 4-Octave Shift: C2-C3 through C5-C6
- Adjustable Attack & Release
- LFO Shape Select: Sine, Saw, Ramp, Square
- Adjustable LFO Rate, Depth and Cutoff Frequency
- Volume Control
- LED Power Indicator
- 1″ Speaker
- Audio Out — accepts 3.5mm (1/8”) TRS or TRRS male jack
- ISP Header for PC connection (to upload software updates)
- Requires 9V DC power from battery or wall adaptor
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