Peter Kirn of CDM posted today about this awesome Frankensynth DIY project, the Raspberry Pi MS Synth:
What’s better than waiting for someone to make something, though? Making it yourself. Friend of the site Marc Resibois hooks up the KORG-manufactured MS-20 Legacy Collection USB Controller, a short-lived but fantastic hardware accessory for the company’s plug-ins, to the US $25 Raspberry Pi. The result is a workable, self-contained, digital synth. (This has all-new synth code, so think of it more as a new synth than an MS-20 clone.)
And it’s a reminder that KORG could learn something from its users about the legacy we love so dearly.
The Raspberry Pi is a cheap, tiny computer that’s beginning to gain popularity as a platform for hacking, including synth hacking. See our previous post on a Raspberry Pi Synthesizer for another example.
dude your my hero – THANKS !!!
Give us control, control and control.
Some of us aren’t phased about analogue vs digital (especially if a synth can sound as good as DIVA), but want real time control, without the randomness of some midi controllers.
Creamware did it with the ASBs and I personally think it’s a winner.
I did just see one of those controllers on Craiglist for pretty cheap… damn, tempting!
Little off-topic here, but I wonder why the ms-20 controller was indeed so short lived. Maybe the timing was wrong for a product like that. I really hope they bring it back to manufacturing!
It could use bigger/better keys!