The goal is to be a completely self contained performance instrument with purchase part cost of $100 or less. No cheating the budget by just building a controller and using a PC with a soft synth.

Current rough concept is:

My goal is to keep it analog, but alternate sound generation options are

  • Arduino based synth
  • RasPi with SunVox (via MIDI instead of CV)
  • One or Jan Ostman's synth chips