EuroPi VS squares-and-circles

Hi all, I'm making a Eurorack sequencer module with 4 pitch CV outputs (NOT audio) and I've noticed that DACs are kind of a pain due to being expensive, SMT-only & still requiring buffering with op amps. I figure that a good alternative would be to buy a Raspberry Pi Pico for $4 which will give me 8 PWM outputs that I would then hook up to an output stage like the one in the europi (shown here: https://github.com/Allen-Synthesis/EuroPi/blob/main/hardware/EuroPi/schematic/europi_schematic.pdf)

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Up until now I've been using the analog input stage from the EuroPi schematic as my model for a CV in. You can see it here:

There is no super cheap way to get a lot of analog outputs from an MCU. Filtered PWM is your best bet for cost effectiveness (I recommend looking at the EuroPi from allen synthesis : https://github.com/Allen-Synthesis/EuroPi). Otherwise if PWM doesn't work for you, you'll need to look into DAC chips. The MCP4728 is a good spot to start, it's 12-bit and has 4 channels: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4470. Since it's I2C controlled you can have multiple of them on one bus. Maybe looking into a 16 channel PWM driver for a lot of outputs: https://www.adafruit.com/product/815. Hope this helps!

The project is completely open-source and open hardware, and the contributors together have made this big list of scripts that you can run using a menu system!

The project is entirely open-source but I do also sell the Panel+PCBs on my site!

Check out the EuroPi project https://github.com/Allen-Synthesis/EuroPi

EuroPi Turing Machine script is feeding the Uncertainty cv input with pulse 1 opening an envelope on Maths for voice 1 & 2, pulse 2 opens the second Maths envelope for sub osc voice 3. A little delay added for texture. That's pretty much it!

EuroPi - A reprogrammable Eurorack module based on the Raspberry Pi Pico

The patch.init() is still a great way to start, but you could save some money ditching the audio i/o and build yourself an EuroPi. However, that requires DIY, obviously.

There is a variant with a teensy 4.0! https://github.com/eh2k/squares-and-circles

The 4 and 3.2 are pretty different. The only firmware that will work on the Teensy 4.0 for O_C is Squares and Circles. Still, it gets your project completed.

Another (mostly unknown) firmware to look into is Squares and Circles → https://github.com/eh2k/squares-and-circles

I do want to grab another for squares-and-circles, though. You could swap out the Teensy if you're comfortable recalibrating.

Current .hex: https://github.com/eh2k/squares-and-circles/files/7872600/firmwares_00g.zip