Over the years, I've got the chance to start quite a set of projects.

Most of them "perish": they stop being maintained, either because I got bored of them or because they were "done". I didn't have anything to add to them.

As such, it's rare for one of them get to "flourish" into something I keep working on. I hope one day a couple of these get to "flourish" into something useful.

Oh wait! Sorry for the change of tone! Here are some descriptions for those that I actually put out! (this only really includes stuff starting from around when I made that website...)

libraiko: an experimental sound synth

One of my latest projects has been libraiko. It's purpose is quite simple: to "emulate" a fantasy sound chip with some wild capabilities, like 24 channels of wavetable synth, envelopes, FM/RM modulation, and ideally fun filters, all on SH4-based CASIO calculators!

I wrote this for 3 big reasons:

  1. I needed a way to synthesise sounds for a certain something
  2. I wanted to see how far I could go by using the SH4AL-DSP's... DSP for it's intended purpose
    • (this is why I used a wavetable as a base, as we have 8K of YRAM, which can be read very quickly!)
  3. I needed an excuse to learn music theory and composing... and to make a tracker.
And I can, for one, state that the DSP's ability to do many things in one single instruction, combined with the saturating arithmetic it boasts for basically free (seriously, it's just one SETS away!), make it more than suited for that use!

Example sounds

(Test of Raiko's ADSR envelopes on this MIDI arrange's piano of Watatsuki Spell Card)