On: A DX7 USB Dongle

[Joeboy]

If I understood right, it's a DX7 synth running on bare metal on a Raspberry Pi, and the news is that they added the hardware / software to use it as a (device-side) USB device.

Which is very cool, but "USB Dongle" confused me a bit.

[kristianp → Joeboy]

The article uses a raspberry pi zero to be pendantic, but it seems to support any pi.

I was researching using the Pi Pico for FM synthesis recently, it turns out it isn't powerful enough to do more than about 3 voices of 6-operator FM due to having no fpu.

Here's the hardware docs page:

https://github.com/probonopd/MiniDexed/wiki/Hardware

[mr_sturd → Joeboy]

It'll look good when the audio out is routed in to the USB audio interface to come back to the computer for recording!