Hardware synth made with Raspberry Pi Zero and SuperCollider

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Hi, I recently built a hardware synthesizer that runs SuperCollider on a Raspberry Pi Zero. When it boots it loads two programs: a Python script to manage the potentiometers and buttons and a SuperCollider script to handle sound generation. The two programs communicate with each other via Open Sound Control. I also incorporated an MCP3008 chip for analog to digital conversion and modified a low-cost USB soundcard by soldering a female audio output to it.

Feel free to check it out here and let me know your thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTe0gYskTuY

Thanks!

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Nice! There’s something about twisting a pitch knob and getting these wild sweeps, isn’t there… I never worked that into my system (not yet, anyway), but recently played a gig with a former student where he did that and it was just the thing, in places.

hjh