Let’s Create an Effects Pedal/Unit With Daisy Pod!

Ever wanted to create your very own custom effects unit/pedal but didn’t know where to start? Let’s learn how to audio program with the Daisy Pod! With Pod, we can audio program without diving deep into electronics. It’s much better to learn one thing at a time especially in the beginning!!
You can purchase Daisy Pod at: www.electro-smith.com/daisy/pod
Getting started: github.com/electro-smith/Dais...
Pure Data Daisy Guide: github.com/electro-smith/Dais...
(link to the new GUI is in this guide!)
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Example patchers: drive.google.com/file/d/148XJ...
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Open Source Pre-Built Patcher Credits
-Heavy lib: github.com/wasted-Audio/heavylib
-Pd-mkmr: github.com/MikeMorenoDSP/pd-mkmr
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Footage Credit
-SUTURE SOUND (Microcosm): • Instant ambient with M...
-Knobs (Space Spiral): • Earthquaker Devices - ...
-Ricky Tinez (Light pedal): • I never knew Spring Re...
-Emily Hopkins (Lo-fi Sequencer pedal) • The coolest lo-fi sequ...
-IncrediVFX: • Flying Math Formula Eq...
-GreatScott!: • From Idea to Schematic...
-The Audio Programmer: • Juce Tutorial 64 - Bui...
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0:00 - Intro
1:07 - Daisy Pod
3:30 - Embedded Audio
4:40 - Hardware
5:30 - Let's Program!
7:57 - Encoder
8:50 - RGB LED
11:35 - Ambient Effects Unit
13:09 - Design Approach
14:03 - Final Verdict

[@markpeam8549]

Great intro - looking at reverb-based FX to build into a new project. This looks perfect. Thanks.

[@SoundSimulator]

I'm glad to hear that! Have fun 🙌

[@mrnobones01]

Dude this video came up on my recommended feed, never seen your channel before, and you just convinced me to buy one. Holy crap this is exactly what my rig needs 😳 thank you!

[@Scrarf4]

What did I just watch. How have I not seen this before. This brings so much creative freedom. Getting this as soon as I can. Thank you for a great introduction video

[@SoundSimulator]

That's exciting to hear!! I hope you enjoy it!!

[@jj74qformerlyjailbreak3]

I bought the Esp32A1S developer module V2.2 and really wished I had seen this video first. I really like the mods for the teensy lineup over ESP. Thanks for the video. You earned a sub. God Bless.

[@badfeng]

This has amazing potential. Great video!

[@SoundSimulator]

Thank you!

[@liudas5377]

very powerful. great video. thanks!

[@SoundSimulator]

Thank you so much for watching! I'm glad you found the video to be informative.

[@SynthuxAcademy]

Super nice explanation! Keep up the good work!

[@SoundSimulator]

Thank you so much!! I appreciate the kind words. I just found your Instagram page earlier and now I need to learn more about this synth design platform (!?) that you made!! Nice to connect with you!

[@funkbungus137]

I love my pod, I have been running a port of cloudseed reverb on it for a while now, it's great.

[@SoundSimulator]

Oh dang, that would've been awesome to showcase in this video! Glad to hear that you're having fun with Pod!!

[@pixelfrenzy]

Cool... is the code for that online anywhere we can get to see it?

[@jimspectre]

care to share the code?

[@alienatedentity]

Thank you so much for this! i'm gonna try to put a gen~ program inside of it when my daisy pod arrive :)

[@SoundSimulator]

Yes!! I hope you have fun with it!! Feel free to share a video!

[@alchemist.D]

Thanks for sharing buddy,😊

[@SoundSimulator]

Thank you for watching!! I hope you enjoy the video!

[@MarkusAudio]

I imagine why I got your vid recommendation, but I instantly subbed. Important channel ❤

[@SoundSimulator]

I'm glad to know the algorithm recommend it to the right person :)

[@TheOleHermit]

Happy Holidays to all and thanks to Sound Simulator for all the great content! See ya next year!

[@SoundSimulator]

Thank you, The Hermit!! Have a good rest of the year// See you next year!

[@yiseunggyu6003]

I love this Channel!!!!!

[@SoundSimulator]

Thank you so much!!!

[@DJDiskmachine]

Hella amazing!

[@pongtrometer]

Great overview introduction to effects / synth ideas development. Just need to understand how to use pure data simply, on a drag n drop basis. Cheers 👾

[@SoundSimulator]

I have a Pure Data tutorial series by the way :)

[@pongtrometer]

@@SoundSimulator niceone 👾 well done in advance

[@seedmole]

Great tutorial! Sure sounds better than having to drop like $200 to add a reliable delay to one of my mixer's unused FX channels. I've been starting to plan out my entry into the arduino/etc world recently and yeah, this seems like a solid way to get started.

[@SoundSimulator]

Awesome to hear that Pod could be what you have been looking for!!

[@jstro-hobbytech]

Start with a cheap arduino kit first brother. It'll give you a great start to coding and how to copy and paste modules of open source code to your projects when you get a pod. If you can't afford one I'll send you one if you live in North America. A basic understanding of coding and hardware can be learned easily in a month. Then you move on to audio with a cheap teensy 2 and an audio break out board. You drag and drop the effects in an online interface.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

hmmm the SD card slot makes it interesting for creating a Reverb that uses Impulse responses, if you wanna add all sorts of captured Rooms to your reverb effect. Because they do consume a bit of storage space.This Daisy Pod board is awesome. I'm actually tempted to create a Subharmonic Generator with this thing. Shouldn't be too hard to do as you basically need to add a function to divide the sound into 3rds, 4ths, 8th, 22nds and so on and so forth. And not just one time but in a whole range of divisions with 4 or 12 of such divisions in a row. That creates a sound that is VERY distinctive because subharmonic tones don't exist like that in nature and works fantastic with something even simple as a Sawtooth wave oscillator. I think that should be totally possible with Pure Data.

[@SoundSimulator]

I haven't seen a IR reverb project yet. I wonder if it's possible. Maybe there is a discussion on it in the forum. I have seen a cool granular project done with Pod recently! The subharmonic generator project sounds awesome! Once you make it in Pure Data, open that patch up in PlugData to check if the objects you used are supported. If it is, it'll be cool to see a standalone hardware synth version of that!!

[@GertBoers]

I already own a Korg NTS-1, which I should try to use more. But this Daisy Pod sure looks interesting!

[@SoundSimulator]

Ah nice! NTS-1 seems fascinating. Pod could be a custom effects unit for it??

[@GertBoers]

@@SoundSimulator NTS-1 itself can be an effects unit, if you want it to. 😀

[@SoundSimulator]

@@GertBoers Oh shoot. It even has the name of the effects on the front panel, my bad!

[@jstro-hobbytech]

I've been just soldering synth effects with from my ic collection

[@alextkalenko]

Great tutorial as expected! I'm trying to find only the pod as I have a Seed already... And I wish I had all these "toys" when I was fifteen (and have started with C++)!

[@SoundSimulator]

Thank you so much, Alex! I wish the same thing too!!

[@JulsGeekPI]

Thanks, i dont know what will be more vostly for my, if only software or with electronic hardware

[@zentriceggofficial]

I'd like to see a PD Daisy Pod project to create a modular VCO with CV/Gate & midi control, sin, saw, sqr and wavetable oscillators.

[@areusmartinez8343]

🙌🙌

[@SoundSimulator]

Thank you!!

[@areusmartinez8343]

@@SoundSimulator no, thanks to you for the work you are doing and for the information , ♥️👍👍

[@happyfarmer6823]

i know zero about synths but i want to make a synth now =)

[@SoundSimulator]

NICE! Glad to hear it :)

[@santiagomarcano6354]

Hi Takumi! Thanks for your content it is really good and explanatory but I have some doubts about Daisy pod. If I buy the pod it already comes with the seed attached to it? Or pod is just a headless circuit meant to be used with the seed? If I want to try the pod souls I buy the pod and the seed or just the pod which already comes with the seed? I couldn’t find that info on E-S online shop.

[@SoundSimulator]

Hey Santiago! When you purchase the Pod, Seed will come attached to it.

[@santiagomarcano6354]

@@SoundSimulator is it soldered to the pod? If I want to use the pod as a prototype module and remove the seed to use it with other components?

[@bonaventura_AKA_ben]

This might seem oddly specific :} At 7:09 you show the pd file and the 'r Knob1 @hv_param' is shown. How is that created with those particular parameters? Does it come 'baked into the Pod board' or is it assigned somewhere? In other words does the Pod come hardwired with r Knob1, l Knob2, etc. or do you have to program it in? This might be a basic pd question so please be patient.

[@SoundSimulator]

The keyword that you need to look out for is JSON :) There are forum posts about it so feel free to look around there for that term. You can kinda think about it as a bridge between Pure Data and Daisy's hardware in the physical world. Or it's the file that needs to be configured in order for those [send ] objects to be mapped appropriately to Daisy's components like knobs. Same thing applies to Oopsy! And yes, each board has pre-made JSON that gets compiled with the Pure Data patch or gen~ patch. I mention it briefly in the Oopsy video over on the Electrosmith channel. And will definitely talk more about in future videos.

[@bonaventura_AKA_ben]

@@SoundSimulator Not to criticize you :) but I watched that video where you mentioned needing a 'custome json' file--you promised a video soon on creating that (ha ha!) You see, I have been paying attention. I'll look through the forum tomorrow morning for mentions of json files. I've been playing with VCV Rack for a few years so I kinda know what json files, and you need to know what json is to program your own vcv modules. I looked for a json file for the oopsy patches but couldn't locate where they are stored. Also I'm not sure how to open/edit json files. So more things to learn.

[@asa-od9pu]

could i still run a program through the daisy pod without daisy seed?

[@hudiwudimudidudi]

Hey, where can I find the pd2dsy GUI? Great video, as usual :)

[@SoundSimulator]

Thank you, Jeremy! I'll include a link in the description!

[@OmBotCult]

So can you use a daisy seed to make an op-1?

[@birdinflames_JVL]

Can I load .wav samples of a piano into my Daisy Pod and use it as a standalone piano synth without computer?

[@NVRMTmotion]

I have a few daisy seeds, but I always talk myself out of buying a pod mostly because I fall into the trap of "I could just build that myself and save some cash!"... But I have built one myself yet? Of course not 😂

[@SoundSimulator]

Time is money!! And Pod is great for quick tests specifically when people are asking general Daisy questions.

[@beatnikcafe]

I would like to build a drum/percussion sample player that is compact. This looks like a great platform because I mainly want to use the sounds as an in ear monitoring reference track, sort of like a click track. Is program the sequence from another device. Having headphone out is already a plus. Ideally I could add a volume knob that would control level to headphones and level to main outs independently. Does anyone have experience enough to know if this is possible?

[@beatnikcafe]

Also, drum samples or drum synth tones would be fine, doesn’t have to be samples. My concern with samples is whether the playback latency will be low enough. As I’m thinking about it I actually would rather it be drum synth. The reason for independent level controls of headphone and main outs is so that if I want to send the drums sounds to the main mix it’s easy to control from the pod.

[@BlondieSL]

Isn't the controller on that actually a DIY of an ESP32?

[@originalfallinggirl]

You are so AWESOME!

[@SoundSimulator]

Thanks for the kind words!!

[@originalfallinggirl]

@@SoundSimulator absolutely. I’m so grateful for you sharing your wisdom in a very understandable teaching style. My boyfriend owns a company called Error Instruments in Amsterdam and I’m going to surprise him by learning to make pedals in Pure Data thanks to your awesome videos. You should do a patreon. But anyway my boyfriend uses Pure Data in a few of his Eurorack modules and pedals.

[@originalfallinggirl]

@@SoundSimulator Omg! Just followed you on Instagram too! I love that Eurorack ball module! You’re brilliant! 🙌

[@bonaventura_AKA_ben]

keep getting error: no DFU available (i have the POD). Tried it with Flash Program and also Flash Bootloader, same error. Funny thing is if I hit reset the daisy flashes the lights but there is no sound. Looking at the pd file looks like the pod test file is supposed to be an oscillator or two. Don't know what is going on here. Had much better look with using Max 8, where I could load and run the sample oopsy files and hear things. This pd2dsy seems a bit wonky or I am missing something. The github page looks pretty straightforward except it doesn't produce the intended results.

[@SoundSimulator]

(In case you miss the other reply) Could you share all this to the Daisy forum? I would be happy to help you there! Feel free to get super detailed about it. See you there!!

[@bonaventura_AKA_ben]

@@SoundSimulator Yes I have, under the forum name 'Astrin'. Love your videos by the way.

[@eiliannoyes5212]

Perhaps you could shed some light - with the top sampling rate, how much DSP-ing that STM32 can really handle? How to evaluate that, huh?

[@bonaventura_AKA_ben]

I was wrong. Can't get Max 8 to work with Daisy Pod either. Patches load but just hiss.

[@SoundSimulator]

Could you share all this to the Daisy forum? I would be happy to help you there! Feel free to get super detailed about it. See you there!!

[@SergeyKazakovPlus]

You mentioned it can be used as an effect for OP-1, but why can't it be used as an substitution for OP-1? More affordable one. Is it just too ambitious or technically impossible because of some processor limitations?

[@SoundSimulator]

I think it'll be more about time. At a certain point, it's better to buy something and save a lot of time. You could make make a portable synth that's like the OP-1 with the Daisy Seed, but it'll involve a lot of time to develop.

[@remka2000]

There are a bunch of projects on YT and elsewhere to do similar-ish things (Zynthian comes to mind, even it's absolutely not an OP1 and it runs on a Raspberry Pi - which is a computer - and I am sure there are plenty others around), but yeah, time, skills - and scaling issues (buying components at retail price, injection molding, etc.). That could be a cool project though...

[@curtisnewton895]

omg ... I waited for this for so long now 84$ is way too expensive for just a passive breadboard...wtf ?

[@SoundSimulator]

I personally think the price is justified. It could be worth trying out the Daisy Seed first instead then.

[@Karl_Squell]

It's not a breadboard, for 84 Dollars you get the whole Daisy embedded music platform which runs code etc. PLUS the board with encoders and jacks etc so that one is not passive either.

[@SnakeOilJohnson]

.....there are two 'T's" in the word "buTTon".......just saying