As I said on the other thread I was going to leave playing with YP002 until the New Year but the thing is too much fun. It's a synth that has lots of good presets and can be programmed via a proper GUI but at the same time you can open a terminal window and write shellscript if you want to. OK, if you're not an old Unix hacker you may not want to but there's a Raspberry Pi 4B in the box just waiting to be played with.
You will need a USB wired keyboard and mouse to use Yoshimi but they're cheap as chips nowadays. You can plug a bog-standard (i.e. class compliant) MIDI interface and/or keyboard into one of the USB ports and it will recognise and play ball with both of them as you would want and expect it to.
Go on - treat yourself for Christmas - you know it makes sense!
It looks smashing; I'd be interested to see a demo on YouTube. Once word got around I think you'd get a bunch of orders for these.
PS a quirky label with a serial number and something like zenguitar's "Live and Let Pi" suggestion would be cool...or something along the lines of the electrical warnings on the Micro Q or Mesa Boogie.
...then there's the Yoshimi Pink Robots stickers and T-shirts...
blinddrew wrote:Apropos of nothing, what kind of a price might a device like this cost?
Asking for a friend...
I paid £260. I'm sure your friend would agree that represents superb value for money.
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PS I've currently got mine working with a larger screen because that's nicer in a semi-permanent installation but I'm keeping the small screen to hand because I want to retain the portability option. I'll bring it along to the next SoSmeet I come to.
You ought to collaborate with Martin Walker. I'm sure the world is ready for a Yoshimi SteamPi.
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PS For a Youtube video it would probably be better to wait for Eddy D to be back in the parish. I'm a lousy keyboard player, I mostly play it with my MIDI anglo.