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…
Hi all! It’s Timo again from the dark dungeon where we’re sweating to bring you the first firmware update. Since the last update we’ve advanced quite a bit: the nasty bug in release mode in the USB firmware has been fixed (it was a stack overflow, a bug category classic enough to have a Q&A…
Hello world! I’m Timo, the lead designer of the Redshift 6. I’ve designed most of the circuit boards, and I write most of the voice firmware from the actual synth control all the way to production testing and calibration. This is the first in an ongoing series of blog posts giving a bit of an…
Welcome to our new blog where we will share updates on development of the Redshift 6 and occasionally dive deeper into various technical subjects! The first Redshift 6 units began shipping in early December. As some of you have noticed, some features listed in the specifications are not yet included at launch. Rather than rush…
