The Polyphonic Driver and The Polyphonic Graph

The Polyphonic Driver and The Polyphonic Graph

With some inspiration from various places, those devises will be fun to make.

What is a Polyphonic Driver and a Polyphonic Graph you ask, well simply put their are a woodwind midi controller and synthbox.

I like steampunk, so the names follow suit.

The Polyphonic Driver Proto-type

I'll be using Gordon Good's blog to help with phase 1 of this project. You can find it here: Gordophone

Main goals: 

Works like a woodwind as best as possible
Plug and play
Fingering like ocarina
Rechargeable 
Maybe self-contained

Build Phases:

1 Breath Sencer

Note on/off, sluring
Vibrato
Dynamics
Brightness?
Other? 
 

2 Note Control

Basic Fingerings
Universal Sharpening Key
Octave Control 
Pitch Bend?

3 Effects

Reverb
Transposing
Pitch Bend?
Brightness? 
 

4 Other

On/Off Switch
Master Volume
Internal Sound?
Wireless?
Integrated Synth?
Integrate Capacitive Touch for Note Control

The Polyphonic Driver Final

Build Mouth Piece
Build Body
Build Bell
Integrate All Parts into Instrument

 

The Polyphonic Graph 

Portable Synthesizer

Build Phases:

Set-up Raspberry Pi
Integrate Screen
Integrate PA out
Add Additional Controls 
Put it all in enclosure