OT: Analog NS 1 Nanosynth

#1

this looks interesting:
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2015/09/play-patch-hack-palmtop-analog-modular-synth-ns1nanosynth/#more-39211

5v... so wonder if this could some how be interconnected with an Axoloti?

#2

I saw the same news and thought the same thing. It's 5v like eurorack so all interfaces we make for eurorack should work with it. This (no price yet) and the moog werkstatt (5v too) are good ways to get into analog eurorack (without the rack) world.
I'm sure the tweaking world is going to benefit in all these innovative products. (But axoloti is so much fun by itself...)

#3

I saw in a post on facebook, 180+vat
planned to release in mid october

#4

Hum... this or 3 axoloti's... if only I had the choice...

#5

I'm in the middle of putting together a portable live setup... it's going to be pretty hard to avoid adding one of these to it. Some ribbon cable and 1/8" jacks and it would be a roadworthy, tiny modular.

#6

so, Axoloti is 3.3v... and eurorack/this is 5v.
but I was wondering is, it says it uses a Arduino Leonardo .... are then pins on this 3.3 or 5v?

it says operating voltage is 5v, but then says it has 3.3v ... so just wondering if Axoloti could interface directly.

(guess I'm ultra keen to get this and eurorack connectivity ... but the current eurorack projects here look pretty complicated to implement....)

#7

Yah too bad about the voltage levels, but just put a schmitt trigger IC in between and you'll be OK! smile

#8

Eurorack CV is "common" +/- 5V (bipolar), but can go up to +-12V, inputs should at least tolerate this. I really doubt interfacing this Nanosynth with eurorack is glueless.
Arduino Leonardo is 5V I/O, but modern digital electronics is 3.3V since over a decade.
Further, I wonder how stable it is, can it be tuned accurately, over how many octaves, and how stable is tuning over time? Jumper wires as patch cables, patch cables across the pots, pots without knob, that all makes it cheap, but compromises playability.

#9

Yeah, you would definitely want to take all of the pots and patch points off of the board and hook them up to sturdier, panel mounted parts at minimum, and given the number of patch points that could be another $50-$75 in materials.

Thinking of it as an entry point to eurorack seems like a recipe for disappointment, but as a little, mostly self-contained modular-in-a-box to add to a non-eurorack rig it could be a lot more interesting.

#10

I meant this being connected would be nice... and also getting eurorack connected would be nice. too unrelated really (except the 5v requirement)
... as you say, this is kind of fun by itself.

#11

Oh yeah, misread that before. That's what comes of sleeping late and not getting coffee before work.