Patchblocks mono Midi synth

Published: 26 September 2017
on channel: meneerjansen00

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Demonstration of my patch for the Patchblocks programmable synthesizer. It is a single oscillator monophonic synthesizer with selectable waveforms and pitch control. Options are: glide, LFO and delay. It needs one Patchblock, the Midiblock and a Midi keyboard. See this Patchblocks forum topic to download the patch: http://www.patchblocks.com/forum/2528...

Wanna know what Patchblocks are? See their website: http://www.patchblocks.com

The patch is meant to be used w/ a cheap standard Midi keyboard that has volume control, a mod wheel and a pitch wheel. Almost every Midi keyboard has those. It has one quirk though: the volume control must be "touched" once to actually hear something...

Usage:
Left knob: glide
Right knob: LFO speed (0 ~ 20 Hz)
Left button: switch wave forms (saw, pulse, sine and triangle)
Right button: delay on/off (w. light)
Midi pitch wheel: pitch
Midi mod wheel: LFO intensity
Midi volume: volume

Equipment and software used:
Patchblock
Midiblock
Custom knobs from Aliexpress
Cheap Midi keyboard (DIN, no USB)
Battery pack from DealExtreme w/ 8 rechargable batteries for the Midi keyboard
The Patchblocks software
Motorola Moto G, 3rd generation to film
Audacity to record audio
KDEnLive (cannot begin to explain how brilliant that software is)
Linux computer w/ virtual machine to run the Patchbloacks software. Sadly, there's no Linux version.
Chromebook (to record audio w/ USB sound card) w/ Crouton to run Linux on it. For Crouton, see: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton. David Schnieder: thank you very, very much for developing Crouton!
Cheap desktop computer (4 GB ram, 2x CPU @2,7 GHz) for video editing running Linux Mint 17.1 "Rebecca"

Sorry for my poor filming, editing and demonstration skills. :-)

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