On the Electro-Smith website the controller is set to be released in mid-may. Does that mean that I can get the Daisy now? Or when can I expect to be able to buy this awsome board? :slight_smile:

The website appears to still be for pre-orders. As far as I know, the Kickstarter orders haven’t shipped yet. I’m sure Electrosmith will post an update when that happens.

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It appears they started to ship.

Electro-Smith also posted some new GitHub repos:

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Not sure when these will be available for people who didn’t participate in the Kickstarter. Here is a backer update on shipping that I got yesterday:

There will be 5 waves of shipping, occurring in this order:

  1. Daisy Seed Development Board

  2. Daisy Pod Breakout Board

  3. Daisy Patch Eurorack Module

  4. Daisy Petal Guitar Pedal

  5. Daisy Field Desktop Synth

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic our warehouse is still operating according to social distancing guidelines and with a reduced staff, so please be patient as we work our way through each tier . We expect that the entire shipping process could take up to 4 weeks.

Hey! Looks like they made the libdaisy repo public now:

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I just got my daisy seed yesterday and I’m starting to look through the docs on github now… haven’t even plugged it in yet but I noticed the headers really don’t want to stay settled in most of my breadboards. I’ve tried a few – had no problem with ICs or other components, but none of them seem to fit headers without popping back out immediately. I don’t want to push it so hard I snap the thing in half before I even do a hello world. :slight_smile: It really only floats on top of them, I’m skeptical there’s a decent connection though I haven’t tested yet:

I have a couple mini breadboards that don’t have the same issue, and if I stack some more headers onto the daisy it pops in fine, although I’m missing about 12 pins that way…

Any other daisy seed owners notice this? It’s not a big deal, but I was surprised! I’m a noob so maybe this is normal and I need to get a different kind of larger breadboard? I got mine from at least 3 or 4 different sources over the last couple years, but the mini guys from (I think) sparkfun are the only ones that don’t seem to have any problem.

Anyway, outside of the oddness of a successful flash with dfu-utils normally returning an error… I have a blinken light. :slight_smile:

Now onward to sound…

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Shipping update from Electro-Smith:

Eurorack modules next in queue!

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Received my daisy pod this weekend but haven’t had time to dig in yet. Excited to do that whenever work calms down but that is probably weeks away :confused:

Anyway, there’s a forum on specifically for the daisy now too! Just signed up and posed my first of many beginner questions :slight_smile:

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Just got my Patch in today, gonna poke around at it this week. It’s been a loooooong time since I touched C++ but maybe I can do something with PD.

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First attempt at making something useful for the Daisy Patch.

Olearia

A collection of applets for the Daisy Patch.

Mode Control Audio In
VCA Level Signal
VCO Pitch
Noise Level
VCF Cutoff Signal

All outputs direct through the audio outs.

Switch mode using the encoder. Hold the encoder and turn to navigate between applets.

CODE: https://github.com/CarlColglazier/Olearia

DOWNLOAD: https://github.com/CarlColglazier/Olearia/releases

Electro-Smith Forum Thread: https://forum.electro-smith.com/t/olearia-a-collection-of-applets-for-the-daisy-patch/248

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Olearia is taking (wave)shape!

On the coding front, I have split everything into three main classes:

  • AppHost: Main class. Has an Applet.
  • Applet: Handles inputs and outputs, draws to a portion of the screen.
  • Generator: oscillators, envelopes, etc. Basic building blocks of sound.

2020.08.17 release: https://github.com/CarlColglazier/Olearia/releases/tag/2020.08.17

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How are folks getting along with the Daisy Patch? I was quite delighted to find a daisy at the heart of my newly acquired Qubit Surface.

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I think the Daisy Patch has a lot of potential as a sound source, but I’m still working to get my DSP skills up to a point where I can get it to make weird sounds I like. Not surprised that the Qu-Bit Surface is using Daisy: Andrew Ikenberry wrote a ton of the Daisy platform code. Having access to a significant amount of SDRAM is where the Daisy shines, in my opinion. It makes it much easier to implement things like long delays and reverbs where the buffers would otherwise be too large for the RAM on the STM.

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How much DSP is enough, you think? And what sorts of weird sounds are you interested in?

I ask because it’s related to a new project I’m working on that’s equal parts education and application. It may involve the Daisy platform as well.

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I may be interested in this as well!
(Meant to respond to @PaulBatchelor)

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Qu-Bit Data Bender also seems to be using Daisy

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Work in progress is happening here: https://pbat.ch/sndkit/

there’s nothing here that’s specifically tailored for the daisy yet (or any embedded devices really), but in theory they wouldn’t be terribly difficult to port.

At some point, my hope is to get reacquainted with my Daisy Pod and to work on adapting some of the sndkit algos so they can work on embedded systems like the Daisy. I also have a personal interest in learning more about the “guts” of the Daisy, and plan to maybe even write some simplified portions of libdaisy as a literate program. Maybe.

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noise engineering reverb module, desmodus versio, has one too.

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they got the gen~ thing goin now:

anyone using it yet?

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