01 / Hybrid groovebox
Where a solo project breaks.
My most ambitious prototype combined analog and digital sound generation: Electrosmith Daisy Patch, MAX11300 expansion, two analog VCOs, analog filtering, and many 3.5 mm patch points for control voltage in and out.
The larger version used three MAX11300 chips to expose enough 12-bit I/O for the parameter-heavy idea. It reached proof-of-concept stage, but the scope was too large: analog hardware, embedded programming, UI, DSP, enclosure and musical concept all at once. It didn’t break at the code — it broke where every design decision landed on one person working alone. That’s the gap I’m closing this time by keeping the first version small.
