It’s rough as hell, I apologize in advance, if you have a bit over an hour to spare and want to see almost everything the machine does now.. then be my guest and come and watch the youtube video.
I’m guploading it as a youtube premier now so I can sit there for a bit with y’all and we can watch it together and you can ask me any questions you like while it’s playing…
I go over how the machine works, every engine the machine has and just about everything I can think of.. it’s finally an actual working synth, it sounds great (although my video quality leaves a lot to be desired)
This is an update, not a commercial, The machine is solid, I am not…
the cases have been done a long time, as have the screen/lens part.
my engineering machine doesn’t show that.
and the cases are still just bare powdercoated with no silkscreen print on them.
Are you planning on having the other cards available for purchase before the Caladan ships? I ordered the four Parva but if there’s going to be others available by the time it ships I would be very interested in adding some to my order.
Love the update, I’m incredibly excited for the Caladan. Given the VA synth and SF2 capabilities, it even makes a case for having a “budget loadout” with no cards, just running the internal sound generators.
yes you absolutely can.. that Korg M1 font you see me load up in the video actually has all the kits on it to, spread out over the keys as they are usually.
Pure Data is pretty much the original open source version of max/msp, which allows you to build what ever you want in a visual modular ui. It’s been around a long time but in the last few years it’s increasingly being integrated into many hardware platforms. PD patches can be loaded onto raspberry pi, the daisy platform, critter and guitari synths and recently have been implemented in the korg logue sdk. It seems like it’s becoming somewhat of an open source standard for user generated hardware integration.
If the linux version of plugdata (a plugin puredata host written in JUCE) already works on the Caladan then there might already be a lot of pre existing instruments and audio effects available and would mean caladan owners would have the ability to patch their own.
Might be worth giving a quick try because if it works it might give Caladan another super power right out of the box and that would be worth highlighting.
I’ll take a look into it for sure..
To be honest, I haven’t had tons of luck with stuff that is built with JUCE as it seems so heavily reliant on X / Wayland etc.. it’s been difficult separating them.
I recently tried to dive into linux land and ran into complications with x11 and wayland so that makes sense. Looks like there’s a few different libraries for compiling pd patches into lv2 so I guess that’s the kind of method developers use to target hardware rather than trying to load a desktop plugin with a heavy UI on a sbc. Anyway the idea of being able to load plugins on a hybrid hardware synth is freak’n cool and it gets the imagination going. Great work on the UI!
Phenomenal update Brad for a compact unit it offers a lot of synthesis engines and the option to expand is amazing.
I don’t know of anything that comes close to this on the market and certainly not in one module.
Just seeing the new basic step sequencer being demoed in a subsequent video, here’s another feature request in the same realm :
An arpeggiator that would work like on a Jupiter 4. I can’t describe what it does specifically, probably obvious to some, but when I had one, it just had a way of intertwining ascending or descending octaves/notes that was way more musical and interesting than your common up/down steps, I didn’t encounter that elsewhere, perhaps other Rolands have it.
