If you like the picoSYNTH aesthetics I've also made a 3D modeller with similar looks that might be interesting to check out: https://johanpeitz.itch.io/picocad

Nothing I've made has ended up on Hacker News before so I'll also take the opportunity to shamelessly plug my Patreon if someone want to support my work. :D https://www.patreon.com/johanpeitz

This is like VCVrack meets Hainbach in Pico8!

Really impressed! I'll recommend it at once to my musician friends.

Good idea to recommend PicoCAD at the same time, my first thought was, "he does it again!".

Hello Johan!

Beautiful program. I'd love to be able to set different sequence length in the sequencers. then its a great ambient generator.

Really cute!

Thanks! Yeah that’d be nice. It’s a challenge to balance flexibility vs simplicity and I tend to go for the latter. You can always change the speed and make some notes longer to get some of the same effects I guess

That is a gorgeous little project! Lots of fun just to try to figure out how it all goes together.

what were some of the biggest challenges when making a synth?

Weirdly, this project started not from the audio end, but with the physics simulation of the cables. Building a synth came later when I needed something to do with the cables. :)

Biggest challenge was that I basically don’t know anything about how synths work in real life, and made up my own way as I went along. This lead to unnecessary rewrites as I needed to sometimes change assumptions that stopped me from progressing.

Very nicely done! cool!