Timo here! By the time you read this, firmware 1.5 should be out! The dev diaries seem to have settled down to a pace of one per update cycle, largely because we’ve been so busy. But so be it, I’d expect you’re much happier reading using the new firmware than reading these blog posts! The big…
Warning: very mathematical content ahead! Proceed at your own peril! It is well known that BBD choruses (wouldn’t it be great if the plural of chorus would be chori, like in cacti?) distort the modulation waveform relative to what would be achieved, say, with digital delay line modulation. See for example the Electric druid’s analysis…
It’s been a while since the last diary! The 1.4 update is out now! This update adds MPE support, a classic-style arpeggiator and 18 new presets showcasing these. There’s also lots of little usability improvements such as multi-part edit and loading individual parts from a preset, which replaces the planned part copy paste, since it’s…
When developing software under time pressure (the only way it ever happens in reality), there’s often many conflicting requirements that need to be weighed against each other, such as getting features out quickly, fixing bugs quickly, and, uh… just anything quickly! When it comes to developing the Redshift 6 firmware, there’s a number of principles…
Firmware 1.3 with multitimbrality is finally out! It was in the end a bit of a crunch to locate all the bugs, take them carefully out of our code, and release them to the wild with a stern warning never to return to our codebase (we don’t hurt anyone, not even bugs), but it’s done…
Dear Diary, After a month of work, we now have a usable implementation of six part multitimbrality, and it’s been in beta for a bit over a week. Not unexpectedly for such a sweeping change, a small swarm of bugs have surfaced, but we’ve now fixed most of them, and the few remaining bugs are…
Ahoy mateys, it’s Timo this time! Since the last update, we’ve finished the features for v1.2, and if no further bugs are found by then, the stable version will be released on Monday 31st March. Just in the nick of time according to the roadmap, where this was marked as “Planned for March”! In the…
Hi! Timo this time, from a sunny office on a cold winters day where we’re working hard to bring you the next update! That’s right, the next update: the final beta of v1.1.0 is now out (available at our Discord server), and unless any major bugs are found, v1.1.0 stable will be released next Wednesday,…
Warning: very technical content ahead! Proceed at your own peril! Updating the Redshift 6 The Redshift 6 has three internal microcontrollers: A Raspberry RP2040 as the UI processor that draws the screen contents, scans the endless potentiometers and buttons and stores and retrieves presets, settings and the autosave state from a 128MB flash chip. An…
We cracked the problem mentioned in Dev Diary #2, and now we have a firmware update that will not brick the synth no matter how it is interrupted! In other words, even though the update may fail if the connection is lost in the middle, the synth firmware is always left in a state where…
