Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 25/03/2026Find the thing that makes you feel this way and cherish it! #music #gratitude 040
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 19/03/2026It was confusing people at the event that my portable DSP stack was running on Daisy hardware, so naturally I built it for ARM Linux hosts as well 😂 Audio was captured directly from the application, no added FX. The full Sound Byte Labs audio stack will be open source when it hits beta. #dsp #oss 010
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 06/03/2026If you're in Chicago come see what I've been up to next Sunday! I'll have half a table and some fun prototype gear to play with! Tons of other boutique and not-so-boutique vendors will be there too 🎸🎹🕺 #chicago #synthsky #marz #fleamarket 131
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 02/03/2026My cross-vendor ARM audio library is starting to do very synth-y things! Stay tuned for lots more on this front 👀 #synthsky #synthdiy #arm #embedded #dsp 092
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 29/01/2026First power of the Gatekeeper prototype did not result in any obvious shorts or heating! Additional testing and first firmware dump later today! Excuse my awful hand soldering 💀 #synthdiy 030
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 27/01/2026Said goodbye to the Squid Salmple and welcomed a few more members to the Church of Make Noise 🤩 They are beautiful 🚀🎸 #modular #synthsky #makenoise 020
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 22/01/2026I knew it! Buying the PO-24 Office was totally not impulsive and completionist consumerism! I knew it would come in handy one day. And she looks right at home 🤩 #modular #pocketoperators #teenageengineering #synthsky 1111
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 06/01/2026Excited as always to get to the prototype manufacturing stage & wait impatiently for my purple PCBs from @oshpark.bsky.social ! Gatekeeper is coming alive in 4HP! #modular #synthsky #eurorack 1111
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 27/12/2025Today I'm workshopping silkscreen art for Sound Byte Labs PCBs! This is Quincy 🚀👾 #synthsky #modular #pixelart 030
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 21/12/2025Oh hello, Warps 👀 Some days you go to the music store for a MIDI cable and there is a beautiful Mutable Instruments module calling your name from the modular room 🤩 They look so happy together! #modular #mutableinstruments #synthsky #plaits #warps 180
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 15/12/2025I promised diagrams, so here! Gatekeeper is a utility module with 2 buttons, CV in, Gate out, and status LEDs. The module is in one of 3 application states: Init, Perform, or Menu. While in Perform or Menu, the CV input controls the gate output. In the Perform state, you also get 2-button control 110
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 19/11/2025MIDI makes me grouchy, but mostly because of the historical 8 bit-ness of it. I also think it's too tied to western keyboard conventions, but mostly everything has decent fixes or workarounds these days. I'm having a lot of fun controlling the 0-Coast with a combo of MIDI and CV! #modular #synthsky 070
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 18/11/2025Okay, the EP-40 Riddim is just straight up fun! 🕺🎹 It has some really nice upgrades over the KO 2, although I wonder if some will trickle down. I love the new synth engines and the improved looper! Btw this was my "portable" set up down at my parents' farm 🤣 #modular #synthsky #teenageengineering 050
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 03/11/2025Modular synths are not for everyone, but they are definitely for me! I absolutely love patching this thing from scratch 🤓 Other signs you might love modular include thinking: - You would rather die than use presets - Money isn't real - 12TET is a prison for your boundless creativity #synthsky 1161
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 31/10/2025I've had a K.O. II since shortly after release and not only have they addressed almost all the shortcomings since release, it's just downright one of my favorite instruments to play! It's my go-to drum machine, idea sketch pad, and messing around toy. Sequencing MIDI with it is next level! 😎🕺 031
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 16/10/2025I spent 3 days of free time setting up this patch 😱 It was so satisfying finally laying down some takes of the idea I had rattling around my head! #synthsky #modular 050
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 09/10/2025I bought this mini 4ms case to house and isolate my in-development modules but it quickly filled up as a controller! Now my keyboard is collecting dust in the corner while I salivate over a 0-ctrl on Reverb 😅 #modular #synthsky 031
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 07/10/2025I asked my wife if it's too early too call this a classic and she said none of my internet friends can stop me. It's a classic! #youredead #flyinglotus 030
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 04/10/2025I avoid politics-posting here but I will say: if you are upset about something, try writing a letter to your elected reps instead of shouting into the wind on social media! It shapes the conversation and they do pay attention when people make extra effort to reach them, especially many people. 020
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 04/10/2025Ears is a really fun module! *Ears* contact mic -> Rings audio in gate -> Rings strum envelope follower-> Maths slew -> LPF cutoff (-) *Rings* Odd harmonics -> LPF *Pressure Points* Pressure -> Maths glide/slew -> Rings damping (+) Pitch (3) -> Rings V/oct Results in percussive sub bass growl! 101
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 30/09/2025I did appreciate the level of detail my hyper focused past self left in the project documentation though! #adhd #boxeswitharrows 210
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 24/09/2025My work friend live texted me his response to my music and tbh it's my favorite reaction I've gotten 😍 #synthsky #modular 010
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 23/09/2025Just got my copy from the mail! Looking forward to a nice Chicago fall afternoon 🤓 110
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 19/09/2025I always see your posts and thought of them while in Greece recently every time they gave me the right glass! 😂 110
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 03/09/2025I made this nonsensical meme to help my friends continue to not understand what my project is or why I won't stop talking about some guy named HAL #diy #adhd 020
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 01/09/2025A currently working vertical slice example from the Sound Byte Libs firmware library! This level of abstraction and ease of set up have been my north star while working on the library APIs. This code runs on a variety of ARM microcontrollers and a native simulator by changing only a CLI arg! #diy 010
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 15/08/2025This has been a really fun patch to play with! Routing my computer's audio into the Palette case for listening and sampling. I have the MFD cross fading the sound source for Morphagene between the audio line in and Rings. It's fun to just listen to music or sample it and process it! #synthsky 050
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 07/07/2025So based on this (very good) book I'm reading, I'm no longer sure if I'll be able to fit the Shapeware 1U analog wave shaper circuit in 6HP without making some serious compromises. It could surely be done by robots, but for now I need to keep things hand solderable! Need more opamps 👀 #synthsky 070
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 06/07/2025Having a ton of fun processing Plaits through Beads today! I'm feeling much more comfortable with the module after a few hours learning and internalizing the UI. A very different granular experience from Morphagene! #modular #synthsky 181
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 05/07/2025Oh, hello 👀 #modular #synthsky #mutableinstruments 070
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 03/07/2025My first time playing a new @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp game on release day was Metal Gear Solid 3. What a wonderful thing to be here a full 20 years later feeling the magic yet again as I dive into Death Stranding 2. It's been a great year for gaming! 👾🕹️ 010
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 27/06/2025This synth has been a lot of fun to play. I became obsessed with building a case around Morphagene that would be fun to play without a keyboard. Im glad I stuck with Pressure Points, because it's got a very musical response! Don't listen to the Maths haters out there! #modular #makenoise 040
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 24/06/2025Today I'm just admiring the beautiful board layout of the #RaspberryPi 5. It's mesmerizing 😯 042
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 10/06/2025Love em, hate em, or somewhere in between, you gotta respect the Doepfer design philosophy. Great quality components and easy to repair boards. #modular #synthdiy 260
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 08/06/2025The wave shaping is looking different than I thought it would but actually looks like some fun shapes! Still a few kinks to work out, but the circuit has been coming alive lately! I'm still testing & refining before I put audio rate signals in but I am excited to hear the output! #modular #synthdiy 030
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 08/06/2025Shapeware 1U isn't dead, it's alive! 🤯 And btw I have been busy getting married instead of building modules! 💍 140
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 11/04/2025New toys from the Randomwaves kickstarter! I love backing other creators and getting to see what they come up with! Very fun so far 🕺 They also open sourced the hardware and firmware for these! github.com/Randomwaves #synthdiy 010
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 02/04/2025Detected a short on the Shapeware prototype and eventually got to removing one component at a time to see if it stopped. Finally removed the op amp chip and found the culprit! Notice the solder blob bridging multiple vias 😱 #synthdiy 020
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 31/03/2025Assembly done for the first Shapeware 1U interface board prototype! I upgraded to a hot air/solder paste set up and I think it shows 🤗 #synthdiy #synthsky #modular 050
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 25/03/2025Circuit boards arrived for the Shapeware 1U project! Great work on the purple PCBs by @oshpark.bsky.social as usual! 🤓 #synthdiy #prototype #modular 161
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 12/03/2025Mocking up the Shapeware 1U module in #FreeCAD to lay out the interface panel & check for component fit. The state of free open source tooling today is incredible! #synthdiy 070
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 10/03/2025Random shout out to Moog Mavis! In retrospect my journey as a #modular maker began a long time ago, but it crystallized when I got a Mavis. Eurorack and modular are such a wonderful nexus of technology, creativity, experimentation. 250
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 04/03/2025The analog redesign of the CV/button Eurorack module is coming along nicely! More breadboard testing needed 🤓 #synthdiy 060
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 26/02/2025ADHD, 2025. Mixed media: origami and colored pencil. 170
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 24/02/2025Here is my 'compact' Eurorack module power circuit. Since modular supplies are usually pretty stable, you could probably lose some of the caps if you wanted. Theoretically, the smaller caps filter high frequency noise, and the bigger ones stabilize the slower oscillations in the supply. 150
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 24/02/2025Ever since I learned a simple debounce circuit for buttons, I've always preferred to debounce in hardware. You can build a nice filter circuit with a resistor and a capacitor. The capacitor charges and holds the line high for a few ms after you let go of the button. Prevents multiple rising edges! 190
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 23/02/2025These test sockets from #adafruit are very useful for doing breadboard testing with SMD chips! 051
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 23/02/2025Feeling that Grateful Dead groove today 🕺🕺 Nobody, and I do mean NOBODY, swings like the Dead 💀 000
Sound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 21/02/2025Now I'm kind of obsessed with using the button module as a CV-Gate converter with audio rate signals. I'd need to tweak the design a bit more to allow it to output negative voltages (0-5V only right now). Could drop the toggle mode and go full analog 🤔 150
