Daisy Seed Rev 7 PlugData: How to Set Input Gain

[tunagenes]

I think what @cebersp is referring to is the different hardware versions of the seed which have different CODECs. And I believe this gets handled at a fairly low level inside the driver and transparently to higher levels.

Here’s a summary of the changes in CODEC from June 2023:

Rev5 seed producing ~13dB higher noise floor

To address your question, I feel some Daisy-History is necessary, but the short-version is that the difference in noise floor is related to the codec installed on the board. The original release of Daisy Seed (rev4) had the AK4556 codec installed. The AKM factory that manufactured that codec burned down due to a fire in 2020. Unfortunately, the end result was the part being discontinued, with no plans of continuing to manufacture it. In order to keep Daisy alive despite this, and to be able to…