Shmøergh Hog
We finished the first version of a synthesizer that starts to resemble a real product. It's the same concept that I've already written about – a simple switches-over-knobs style analog synth for live performance, called Hog – but with completely reworked circuitry and enclosure.
This post is about our process and how the Hog came to be, so I'm not going to write about how the instrument works. But to give you a bit of context, here is an overview of the main features:
The idea of the Hog came when we were messing around with the A1 prototype and found it tedious and time consuming to switch between sounds that are actually usable e.g. in a band. So we decided to design a very simple analog synth that has killer sound, and through purposeful limitations, it is very easy to work with. Kinda the opposite of what you expect of today's synthesizers with "endless possibilities".
I experiment with electronics and build instruments in my spare time simply because I enjoy it and I love to learn. I do it only over the weekends so it took about two years to get to this point with the Hog.
