Grauw just released a preview version of Synthesix, a synthesizer for MSX sound chips. It lets you play and tweak your MSX sound chips in real-time, using external MIDI controllers and DAW software. It was already demo'ed before on the MSX fair in Nijmegen and on Sander's MSX party, but now everybody can play around with it.
Patches are edited in a modular sound design paradigm. This architecture lets you insert modules which perform various functions into the control chain between your MIDI keyboard and the sound chip. This gives you great and flexible control over the sound that is played.
This preview release is far from finished and mostly there to show the concept in action and let you experiment creating some sounds. Functionality is limited; e.g. you can’t add/remove modules, or load/save patches. However you can re-connect the preset patch at will and already generate some pretty neat effects. Since this is a preview version, questions, suggestions and feedback are really welcome. It would also be nice to see some Youtube videos, so be sure to post them in the Synthesix forum thread too!
Source code is available for those interested.
Relevant link: Synthesix preview release
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