What can / can't be achieved with microcontrollers?

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Hey all,

I’m fairly new to all this and have a question regarding the ceiling of micro controlers.

With Daisy Seed, and or other micro controlers, what can be done and what can’t be done?

Does a microcontroller have the processing power to be a decent poly synth? Or full drum machine?

Could a digital version of a vermona drm1 mkiii, of DFAM… Or even mini moog be created with a microcontroller, or are we limited to audio FX and and clock deviders? What’s the limit of what they can do and why?

Thanks

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Hi!

For demos of what the Daisy can do, you can find them below the products, eg:

https://www.electro-smith.com/daisy/pod

When I started working with the Daisy Seed around xmas, I had the same question as you – how much work can it do?

That is why I created the OscPocketD. It currently features 7 synth voices with filters, adsr, lfo, delay, reverb, a drum machine with “VA” sounds, a sequencer and a mixer. All running on one Seed! Awesome hardware! See: https://forum.electro-smith.com/t/oscpocketd-portable-beat-song-making-studio-with-synths-and-drum-machine/1006/12?u=staffanmelin

You can also check out the Projects and examples category on the forum: https://forum.electro-smith.com/c/projects-and-examples/18

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Here is an example I have entirely done (poly synth and effects) with a single Axoloti board.
The Daisy (400MHz) is potentially 3 or 4 times more powerful than the Axoloti (168MHz)… and i plan to port many of my Axoloti projects to it eventually.

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Cheers for the responses and info, it’s interesting to hear how much more powerful it is than the Axoloti.

The Pollen 8 on Daisy seems pretty robust

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Hey thanks for the mention of Pollen8. FYI work continues with that for field/patch support, external customizable CC control and the FM engine too.