Distant Synth I

The instrument uses a virtual sound-engine (written entirely in Pd, running on a Raspberry PI computer), and hardware interface with patch-points with knobs and switches for parameter control, with musical expression via OSC.

• 4-voice Polyphonic Phase-Aligned Formant Oscillators
• Monophonic 2x Square-waves Detuned Oscillator
• Monophonic tuned-filter noise source with overdive
• 2x ADSR envelope generators
• Oscillator Mixer section
• 2x head tape-style Delay/Feedback section with overdrive
• Resonant High-Pass filter
• Resonant Low-Pass filter
• 2x VCA modules
• Triangle-Wave LFO with slope and frequency
• Square-Wave LFO with slope and frequency at multiples of Triangle LFO
• Boolean-logic chaos LFO A derived from Triangle and Square-Wave LFOs
• Boolean-logic chaos LFO B further mangled waveforms