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Some of the recent projects that I've worked on - the ones I can talk about! Not in chronological order.

Blackfin Audio Board

 Blackfin Audio DSP Processor - 2010. After finding no high performance audio DSP platform suitable for building a musical effects unit, I created my own open source design, then used it to develop a unique acoustic guitar algorithm. Patent pending.

Tranzport

Frontier Design Tranzport - 2005. Wireless remote controller for digital audio workstations. Uses Cypress PSoC1, enCoRe and WirelessUSB technologies.

Winner of 8 industry awards for excellence.
Awards 2005

MotionBuilder

 MotionBuilder Device Plugin - 2010. Developed a proprietary OpenReality plugin that allows real time data from AutoDesk MotionBuilder to be output for motor control and physical animation.
iZotope ANR-B

iZotope ANR-B - 2008. Real-time adaptive noise reduction for the broadcast industry. Uses Analog Devices SHARC and Cypress PSoC1 technologies.

Winner of 2 "Best New Product" awards at 2008 AES.
 
ANR-B Awards

iZotope ANR-B
 

Mellotron M400

 Proprietary portable motor controller - 2011. Uses SiLabs 8051 microcontroller and RFM radio technology to control Elmo Whistle digital servo drives.
Another Side Of In

Another Side of In  - 2010. Interactive multi-media collaboration with Phish bass player Mike Gordon and artist Marjori Minkin. Installed at Boston Children's Museum. Uses 23 Cypress PSoC1 processors and WirelessUSB technology to control light and sound based on proximity to artwork.

 

Mellotron M400

M-Audio MidAir Wireless MIDI products - 2006. Bullet-proof, wireless MIDI keyboards and USB MIDI class-compliant adaptors. Uses Cypress PCoC1 technology.

Read a review from Electronic Musician Magazine.

MP3 Trigger V2

SparkFun MP3 Trigger V1/V2 - 2009. A versatile embedded MP3 player for the hobbyist and interactive exhibit markets. Uses a Cypress PSoC1 processor and a VLSI VS-1053 MP3 decoder to play MP3 files of a FAT formatted microSD card.

Chosen by Grant Imhara of Mythbusters for the Craig Ferguson Robot Skeleton Sidekick.

Robot Skeleton
 

Gig-FX ProChop

 Gig-FX ProChop - 2007. Guitar tremelo pedal. Uses a Cypress PSoC1 to syncronize the stereo effect to external tempo via MIDI Clock.
 
Jamie Robertson Music Two CDs of guitar music - 2008. Written, performed, recorded and mixed in house.

Mellotron M400

 Mellotron M400 #380 Restoration Project - Ongoing. Don't know what a Mellotron is?  Click to learn more than you'll ever need to know about this amazing piece of music technology history.

MIDI Tester

 Digital Audio Workstation MIDI timing tester - 2002. After fretting about latency in the MIDI coming out of my Windows based DAW, I built this device to capture and time-stamp MIDI events, along with an application to upload and scatter plot them. This allowed a quantitive measurement of DAW MIDI latency.

© 2009 by jamie robertson, robertsonics