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A project log for The Open Woodwind Project

An Electronic Aerophone with focus on usability as an instrument.

j-m-hopkinsJ. M. Hopkins 05/09/2018 at 09:220 Comments

It's been a while!

Over the last two years I've moved across the country and started a new time-demanding job at SpaceX, and I've had little time for my side projects between work and family. I am re-opening this project for active development however due to my recent interest in modular synthesis, and of course because I do love playing my Akai EWI. 

New parts are on order, and I'll be stepping through another development process to get my instrument up and running.

I'm moving away from a high beta transistor amplified resistance touch sensor strategy to the more common capacitve touch strategy, and will be trying to get my pressure sensitive keys working.

An onboard analog synthesizer as well as pitch and gate voltages will be available (for eurorack modular synthesizers), as well as hardwired MIDI and wireless MIDI options.

After the instrument is up and running and I'm happy with it, I will finalize schematics and requirements and place an order for PCB fabrication at which time if others are interested can probably get a board or two for themselves to build their own instruments as well.

During the development process I'll post code snippets and hardware explanations, so please, follow and keep updated!

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