Zira (PicoWave)

Zira came out of an idea I had to see how small I could build a synth and still get it to sound good. The prototype is based on the Korg NJM2069AD Filter/VCA chip, the reason for this being I had 8 lying around I bought a while back from Korg to build a polysynth with.

There are 8 of these prototypes, and I'm giving 7 of them to a few of my friends, I'm keeping one for myself this time.

However, I fully intend to try and replace the NJM2069AD with a discrete filter and VCA of some kind (currently the SSM2164 based VCF/VCA is looking good) and turn this into kits in much the same way as I did with GorF.

A quick summary of it's features;

For more detail see the specifications page and for demo sounds, see the sounds page.

When kits are available, I'll be posting on my blog, but I'd expect that to be around November 2010, though don't hold me to it, this is just a hobby.