Meet Meeblip, The Open Source, Hackable Digital Hardware Synth… Peter writes –
Making music, making blips and bleeps, turning knobs, plugging in keyboards, and having the freedom to modify your gear รขโฌโ these are good things. And thatรขโฌโขs why Iรขโฌโขm so excited that today is the day the MeeBlip launches.
Itรขโฌโขs been several years in development, but now itรขโฌโขs finally here. Itรขโฌโขs a hardware box that makes noises รขโฌโ virtual analog synth noises, chip-sounding noises, good noises, bad noises, noises you can make into music. Itรขโฌโขs got physical knobs and switches on it, plus a MIDI DIN in port so you can connect that keytar you bought on eBay. Itรขโฌโขs also a digital synth you can build, modify, and hack, down to the way every knob is mapped and every sound is blipped.
The MeeBlip is the creation of James Grahame, of Retro Thing and Reflex Audio fame. But weรขโฌโขre serious about the Create Digital Music name going on there, too. Weรขโฌโขll be documenting and helping develop this instrument for some time to come, and weรขโฌโขve begun building a site and community for the instrument so you have a place to meet other people using it.
The MeeBlip, from code to schematics, is open source hardware. You can hack it, read through the code, make your own and sell it. At the same time, just because itรขโฌโขs รขโฌลopen sourceรขโฌย and รขโฌลhackableรขโฌย doesnรขโฌโขt mean the MeeBlip is just for hackers. On the contrary รขโฌโ we wanted a synth anyone could play. With the Quick Build Kit, you can assemble the MeeBlip without a soldering iron or, really, much skill, in a matter of minutes. Plug it in, turn some knobs, and you can make some sounds. And if later you decide you want to go deeper or even change the way the instrument works, you can do that, too.
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