So this MIDI thing keeps evolving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second revision of the LEGO Laser Harp is almost done and I was looking for a way to make it sound more like Jean-Michael Jarre<\/a>. I found a site with lots of files<\/a> related to his instruments including the Elka Synthex<\/a> used on Rendez-Vous album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since ‘Yoshimi’ (and is ‘father’ ZynAddSubFX) is a software audio synth there is probably a way to configure it to generate the sounds of the Elka Synthex… but that’s not something I can do, would need to use other’s work (and found nothing, except that the file format is ‘.xiz’).<\/p>\n\n\n\n But that page had soundfonts. And since Fluidsynth and Timidity++ can use soundfonts I can use one of those soft synths instead of Yoshimi. But it would be like going back to the initial setup so I decided to try another option I already had found a few months ago: Zynthian<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zynthian is based on the Raspberry Pi and is sold as a kit – a case, a few buttons or knobs, a sound card and a touchscreen. But it’s also ‘open’ so we can use it with our own devices and I already have the basic ingredients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I downloaded an image <\/a>for my Raspberry Pi 4 and tried an headless setup with just a USB audio card. It worked… sort of… I could configure most of it from the browser except the “music instrument” itself, I needed to create a “layer” and choose a synth and couldn’t find how to do it from the browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I connected a screen to the HDMI port and a mouse to the USB port and used the GUI. And saved a ‘snapshot’ so I don’t need to do it again after a restart. And now it really works in headless mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I now have a MIDI synth that accepts ipMIDI over wi-fi and can use soundfonts. If this works good I might order a Hifiberry sound card and make a LEGO case for my Zynthian box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So this MIDI thing keeps evolving. The second revision of the LEGO Laser Harp is almost done and I was looking for a way to make it sound more like Jean-Michael Jarre. I found a site with lots of files related to his instruments including the Elka Synthex used on Rendez-Vous album. Since ‘Yoshimi’ (and … Continuar a ler “Zynthian – an Open Synth Platform”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Mhyv-qO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}