立夏赏小羽 Summer Begins, Wingie Upgrades

video upload by Meng Qi

"Link to v1.1 firmware & manuals: https://github.com/mengqimusic/Wingie...

// Summer's greetings from Synthesis Minority (合成少数派)

Today is LiXia (立夏), the 7th solar term of the lunar caledar, marking the beginning of Summer.

It was also in a summer when Wingie's first prototype came out.

So I thought summer must be a season of rich sounds—cicadas singing, birds chirping, poets from the past chanting besides instruments.

I wonder if the poet a thousand years ago, when he wrote: 'The lotus wind delivers its fragrance, the bamboo drops make a clear sound", was in a summer more pleasant than where I'm. But Meng Haoran (孟浩然) must have been lonely, that's why when he "wanted to make music," he hesitated because ''there was no bosom friend who can resonate with him'.

Maybe he should have resort to something else? May it be a resonator?

Just kidding. But Wingie is a resonator. It resonates with all frequencies it receives (take it rationally or subjectively).

Anyway, we make it to come to a new summer. Also, the Wingie firmware is updated. I've added a couple new features.

Probably, I do have some expectations on people who got Wingie—No matter there's someone who can resonate with your feeling, just feel free to make music!

// New Features of Wingie2 v1.1

- Customizable Caves (setting via instrument interface & MIDI)
- 6 Caves
- Adjustable Pre / Post Clipper Gain (from clean to saturated to destroyed sound)
- Global Tuning
- Customizable MIDI Channels (setting via MIDI)
- Storable Settings"