A journey into the world of FV-1

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ac30irons

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I am contemplating dipping my toe into the world of digital - there is a lot to read about, it’s pretty mind blowing.

Iv noted that @Robert has a development board for dumping and ripping from eeproms, but it appears that it has been unavailable for a time and there are no build docs - can any one recommend and reasonably priced alternative that will do the same job ?

Having done a bit of research I have ground a GitHub page with programs on which I am guessing is where most would get stuff from, but where do folk get specific programs - say for EQD pedals from etc ?

Any advice anyone can give to help me get started would be really appreciated
 
The old build doc was removed to prevent anyone from ordering the wrong parts ahead of time. PCBs are here and ready to go so the doc is pretty much the only thing left to do.

As far as algorithms, we can't legally dump and use the algorithms from commercial pedals, but you can find/build workalikes that do the same thing. Mark Stratman has a pretty big archive of programs here, but I'm also putting together a sort of "App Store" type of application (no cost) for loading algorithms directly onto the pedal.

The new revision is a pretty big leap above the older one. We no longer need the CH341A USB bus IC, and instead of using a chain of various programs (some command-line only) we can now do everything from one application, right inside your web browser.

The only new requirements are a USB-C port and a desktop computer running a Chromium-based browser. (Windows, Mac, or Linux, no mobile yet)
 
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We'll also have some specialized "wizard" type applications that allow you to configure algorithms in ways that weren't possible before.

For example, the original Daydream delay has three filtered delay taps. You could adjust the overall delay time, control whether the filters sweep up or down, and adjust the spread of the filters, that's it.

Now you can add more (or remove) taps, adjust the tuning of each filter individually, control the delay time ratios of each tap, and select which taps are fed back into the input....

This means patterns and the arpeggios can be tuned to musical scales or stagger, rather than just sweep up and down by fixed amounts.

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Robert said:
As far as algorithms, we can't legally dump and use the algorithms from commercial pedals, but you can find/build workalikes that do the same thing.
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Would it be fine for someone to dump the algorithm to use for their own personal build? I see it like ripping the rom of a game you own to keep a digital copy for personal emulation.
 
anevilspar7an said:
Would it be fine for someone to dump the algorithm to use for their own personal build? I see it like ripping the rom of a game you own to keep a digital copy for personal emulation.
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Curious about this too. I can't see any reason it would not be legal, you can't prohibit people from doing that to their own possessions. That said, the DMCA is utterly insane, and there are some provisions about "bypassing" protections. But I really don't care what the music and movie industry suits say, if I had a pedal, I would dump it and share it for free. Selling obviously is another story.
 
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