I was playing guitar this morning when a new idea started to come to me. I love the sound of the Alesis wedge so so much, but it runs on AC power so integrating it into this conceptual mobile setup I have been kicking around is impractical. As I laid on the floor listening it occurred to me that I already have the answer — Axoloti. There’s a reverb object which sounds amazing that would be the perfect stand-in. More than that it occurred to me that I could solve several problems at once: 1. amazing reverb; 2. a simple synth for live playing along with loops, or to be fed by a norns sequencer; and 3. a midi controller mapped to norns parameters.
I designed this hardware configuration a few years ago: 4 encoders with pushbutton, 2 oled screens capable of displaying 4 lines each, and 3 buttons with decoupled leds. The goal here was to allow for pagination via the buttons with oleds and leds for indicators/visual feedback. The demo patch I made (have been meaning to make a performance video of that for awhile now) has most of the core switching programming I need. I just need to remember how it works and then add functionality to allow it to flip between the functions noted above. I’m glad to be back into this — Axo was a huge step forward in idea-realization for me. Not to mention being able to actually code things (ish) from scratch.
