Amy Alternatives

amy reviews and mentions

• An affordable, portable and focused device for music, writing and coding
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2024

  It doesn't really run an OS like you may be used to. It runs FreeRTOS, which schedules tasks. One of the tasks is running Micropython. (Other tasks are for audio, the display, MIDI, touchscreen, the sequencer, etc). There's no BIOS-level code to use, we have to manage our own screen (including drawing in groups of scanlines at a time to save RAM.)

  Yes, you can use this to make synths. It's powered by our own AMY under the hood, which is a low level oscillator bank with a LOT of features https://github.com/shorepine/amy . And then you manage them in Python, including MIDI, note stealing, polyphony, sequencer, etc. See more here: https://github.com/shorepine/tulipcc/blob/main/docs/music.md

  You can NOT do audio input effects -- there's no audio input. You can load samples from WAV files and play them back.

• Tulip Creative Computer - Dedicated MicroPython hardware with Midi In/Out Stereo out.
  1 project | /r/synthdiy | 15 Feb 2023

  Spotted this on Hackster, a single board "computer" with access to some useful IO like USB host, Audio and Midi. Also capable of running an instance of the AMY synthesizer library (https://github.com/bwhitman/amy).