[johanpeitz]

Thanks for the lovely comments! I'm the creator of picoSYNTH and it was a really fun project to work on. I don't have much experience in synths so it was a big learning project for me.

If there are any questions around the program, just let me know!

[johanpeitz]

If you like the picoSYNTH aesthetics I've also made a 3D modeller with similar looks that might be interesting to check out: https://johanpeitz.itch.io/picocad

Nothing I've made has ended up on Hacker News before so I'll also take the opportunity to shamelessly plug my Patreon if someone want to support my work. :D https://www.patreon.com/johanpeitz

[jefurii]

This is like VCVrack meets Hainbach in Pico8!

[woolion]

Really impressed! I'll recommend it at once to my musician friends.

Good idea to recommend PicoCAD at the same time, my first thought was, "he does it again!".

[olele]

Hello Johan!

Beautiful program. I'd love to be able to set different sequence length in the sequencers. then its a great ambient generator.

Really cute!

[johanpeitz]

Thanks! Yeah that’d be nice. It’s a challenge to balance flexibility vs simplicity and I tend to go for the latter. You can always change the speed and make some notes longer to get some of the same effects I guess

[jacquesm]

That is a gorgeous little project! Lots of fun just to try to figure out how it all goes together.

[radiKal07]

what were some of the biggest challenges when making a synth?

[johanpeitz]

Weirdly, this project started not from the audio end, but with the physics simulation of the cables. Building a synth came later when I needed something to do with the cables. :)

Biggest challenge was that I basically don’t know anything about how synths work in real life, and made up my own way as I went along. This lead to unnecessary rewrites as I needed to sometimes change assumptions that stopped me from progressing.

[pkphilip]

Very nicely done! cool!