I got my @winterbloom Sol a while back, and while my audio gear has been out of commission, I’ve been working on some firmwares for it. Most of them are pretty well in the prototyping phase, but I figured it couldn’t hurt to discuss concepts and maybe provide a place for others to share.
SeqPal 0.4.1
SeqPal is a simple, configurable firmware for use with sequencers. It allows assigning MIDI channels to CV/gate pairs, or just gate outputs, on the Sol, and allows using a Sol CV output as a gate output if needed. It also supports scaling its output voltage for the MODEL input of Plaits by Mutable Instruments, to facilitate using Plaits as a percussion voice.
SeqPal 0.41 was released on January 21, 2021, and requires the Sol libraries from October 3, 2020. Download it here.
DrumBud 0.1
This is an extension of the pseudo-gate feature of SeqPal, designed to turn Sol into an 8-trigger percussion extender, especially for use with the Beatstep Pro’s upper (non-CV) row of drum pads.
As with the SeqPal, it’s fully configurable, but rather than one MIDI channel per output, it’s designed to be used with existing drum sequencers on a single MIDI channel. Download it here. As with SeqPal 0.2, it requires the October 3, 2020 updates to Sol’s libraries.
Current Projects
I’m also working on a couple of other firmwares, primarily meant to be used with either ORCA or the Beatstep Pro. My current project is to make a bank of LFOs and rhythm generators controlled by the BSP in control mode. Let me know what you’d be interested in seeing, either as updates to the SeqPal or in wholly new firmwares!