Electro-Smith Daisy Microcontroller Platform

whisper3000 · 2023-08-23T14:50:21.539Z

Things look a little quiet over here. I’m interested to know what people are doing with their Daisies these days.

toneburst · 2023-08-23T20:03:02.009Z

Just ordered a Daisy Patch Submodule. No special plans for it right now, but I’m sure I’ll think of some use for it…

Anyone using a colour screen and SD card with theirs?

sanderson · 2023-08-24T12:42:36.236Z

I just got my Patch so I have a couple of things to work on:

Editing and building via Xcode, have this working including upload but feedback to Xcode is limited and no debugging yet.
Building some patches to test, I have a quad vc attenuator as a test harness, just trying a few other things now.
Porting an Arduino based midi version of Jon Simontons Pink Tunes. Have this working on Arduino, just need to port and consider what is UI and what is midi cc controlled. For those who don’t know it’s from early PAIA times and generates notes based on predefined tables. In my case scales, four voices and gate driven. I have it running on an Entrospec IUNGO.

I’ll chuck all this up on GitHub at some point but I literally just got the module yesterday so still messing around.

Cheers
S.

Helen · 2023-08-24T12:46:39.723Z

I didn’t even know about Daisy until I came to upgrade the firmware on my Endless Processor module!

And that upgrade is all I’ve done, but it was worth doing!

hermbot · 2023-08-24T13:33:45.031Z

I’ve been kicking around some spreadsheets to plan out the I/O for a few projects using the Submodule. It would be really nice if there were some more CV inputs, at least for some of the things I have in mind (which makes me wonder if this is the correct platform to be attempting such things - it’s obviously more of an audio-targeted platform). To do some of the things I’d like to I would need to look into some kind of multiplexer and that’s already beyond my feeble mind.

Here’s what I’ve been using to plan pinouts, I just populate the left columns and strike out each pin as it’s used up.

docs.google.com

Daisy Pinouts Template

SM Parameter,Pin,Name,Type Decay,C5,CV_1,Potentiometer,A1,-12V In,C1,CV_OUT_2 A2,ADC_9,C2,CV_4 A3,ADC_10,C3,CV_3 A4,GND,C4,CV_2 A5,12V In,C5,CV_1 A6,5V Out,C6,CV_5 A7,GND,C7,CV_6 A8,USB_DM,C8,CV_7 A9,USB_DP,C9,CV_8 A10,3V3...

robint · 2023-08-24T16:39:25.821Z

I have a patch.init() module and I discovered this video because of it:

There are some great patchers out there, although it is hard to decide which parameters to map to the module controls. I’m not entirely sure that all patchers will work though.

I´m also working through this course to learn Max in parallel and so far I really like it:

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whisper3000 · 2023-08-24T20:42:43.054Z

OK. I’m convinced. I just ordered a patch.Init()

schnickerbocker · 2023-08-24T21:07:48.651Z

I made a Mangrove style dual formant oscillator using the Daisy Seed as a starting point.

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cedarcedar · 2023-11-02T18:32:47.074Z

That’s a beautiful panel! Would you be willing to share the Gerbers anything? I have one that’s blank but the crisp simplicity of yours stands out!

m9dfukc · 2023-11-02T18:42:07.042Z

Very cool. Mangrove is my favorite oscillator so this is very interesting to me. Would you mind to share more details about your project?

schnickerbocker · 2023-11-06T16:04:56.966Z

It’s basically a dual Mangrove. The buttons along the top allow for octave up/down. There’s a main pitch knob as well as a ±1 octave control for the second oscillator.

Each channel can be individually set to constant wave, constant formant or square wave. There are controls for the peak duration and angle as well as volume (with clipping) and FM.

I don’t have a Mangrove to compare with, but it was enough to address my GAS for one while learning a couple things in the process.

m9dfukc · 2023-11-06T19:58:51.033Z

Sounds interesting. Do you have any sound examples?

schnickerbocker · 2023-11-06T20:28:27.672Z

Not handy but I’ll record some and post them here shortly.

FLSR · 2023-12-19T18:47:45.636Z

wanna hear that. do u use c++ for programming daisy?

ljudvagg · 2024-01-27T20:20:50.090Z

I built a thing with Synthux simple touch and daisy. It’s some kind of arpeggiator with a basic fm synth. I’ve been putting off learning c++ for some reason but after finding Synthux academys contest I just knew that this was the perfect opportunity to push myself and learn something new.

Synthux kit is a perfect start for someone like me who enjoys hardware but rather spend time in the comfortable software world. Buying the st-link v3 probe was also a game changer as it’s more than twice as fast as flashing with the built-in usb.

I’ve shared the code with some documentation on github

GitHub

GitHub - filipforsstrom/chord-buffer: Chord arppegio with a basic FM synth...

Chord arppegio with a basic FM synth inspired by analog shift register - GitHub - filipforsstrom/chord-buffer: Chord arppegio with a basic FM synth inspired by analog shift register

BJG · 2024-01-27T20:40:11.365Z

Cool. I’ve struggled with Daisy but this looks like a nice way in.

ljudvagg · 2024-02-12T15:08:12.786Z

It is! Removing the sometimes never ending “what if I have X component” is good for the creativity

xmacex · 2024-08-13T11:51:01.820Z

This whole Daisy thing is pretty interesting, to work in Pd actually.

Something for me to understand and reconcile is that not all Pd objects compile to Daisy, so I would be smart to spend time limiting my Pd explorations to the objects which do, just to get an intuition of the sense where the limits lie and what movement of the platform seems to be.

Many of the unsupported objects are well justified since they do stuff like plot on screen, send OSC over network, or read files which I am not sure Daisy can do.

I would also benefit from learning what platform is currently running (this is not a question, more like thinking aloud), to condition Pd patch inputs: “if running on computer read MIDI, if on Daisy read CV” etc.

Alternatively: crow objects in Puredata, like Max/MSP.

georgie · 2024-08-17T09:32:33.032Z

[expr~] is unsupported right? That one’s my go to for signal-rate % stuff, boolean logic, and trigonometric functions. Curious to know what things you’ve implemented that work around the expr~ limitation.

BJG · 2024-10-19T19:39:57.219Z

I recently noticed a Synthux Touch on eBay, remembered this post, and picked it up. Earlier today I dropped them a note to see if I could get hold of the resources that are supplied with a new purchase, and they replied with a year’s free subscription.

Cool hardware, nice people.

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