The OWL , an ARM-based Stompbox with open architecture

[smurfedelic smurfberry]

I think it's pretty cool. My demo is lacking, ofcourse, I play pretty bad as usual. But i really wanted to spread the word.

Writing and uploading patches is pretty easy for a fairly skilled developer atleast. I think it's the build environment that was the biggest stumbling block for me. Once that's out of the way, the sound processing equivalent of "Hello World" is a piece of cake. More advanced stuff isn't though, DSP is hard.

[Digital Larry]

It looks pretty cool.  I tried checking out the development tools and I'm still pretty mystified.  If I can figure out how to get those running I might actually buy one to mess around with.  If the programming is in C/C++ it would probably be somewhat trivial to adapt the (currently) FV-1 specific SpinCAD Designer program to it.  By 'trivial' of course I mean six months of chipping away at it 30 minutes per day.  I do hope this succeeds enough to get updates and some semblance of a support community.  I've seen a fair number of similar projects that represented a lot of effort by the designers but wasn't simple enough to use to go beyond the uber-geek market.

[smurfedelic smurfberry]

Oh, yeah I guess I'm pretty used to environments like these ( ARM, GCC, various gnu tools) that it seems like so easy (i've had the simulator and also got a vst plugin working early on in the dev process, but haven't done anything yet for the physical device ). From what gathered, actually putting stuff on the box is the easiest of all methods.

Me on the other hand, when I look at FV-1 code I can't believe ppl even bother.

[kingswayguitar]

looks like hours of fun!
i'm never (in the near future) going to construct a pedal you need to program. so what would something like this retail for? are we talking $200+ range?
and just a quick question, not trying to be critical (seriously) because I think it sounds cool, but is the fizzy distortion actually heard live or is that just a relic of your recording method? i built a semi-digital fuzz and there was a fizziness that i couldn't fester out of the mojo.

cheers

[smurfedelic smurfberry]

A lot of the fizzy distortion you hear is that it's a quick and dirty recording going straight into the mac's line in input jack.

the retail price is pretty damn high, UKP 250.