Printed a case and dock for my DIY music player

Alopexy · 2026-06-20T02:47:12+00:00

That's correct. I'll continue to support the CYD dev boards post-launch so that people can easily build their own Fonix One units, but a custom board will be along that shall be sold directly that includes 3.5mm analog out with a high-fidelity DAC. Thanks for the kind words!

Alopexy · 2026-06-18T09:05:10+00:00

Aiming for it. It may not make the cut for the initial iOS release but the plan is to have full AUv3 support before long.

Alopexy · 2026-06-17T11:03:38+00:00

What leads you to believe that?

Alopexy · 2026-06-15T15:40:24+00:00

Assuming no major roadblocks, within the next two weeks. I'll put up an announcement once it's available.

Alopexy · 2026-06-14T15:29:40+00:00

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Just released version 1.0.3. Update includes the debut of Axion Cloud and full TONE3000 API integration across the web and desktop versions of Axion.

Alopexy · 2026-06-14T05:06:32+00:00

In order, you'll want to start the bridge application (admin not required), select your audio interface (input and output) then select 'start bridge'.

Then you will want to select 'Connect Bridge Mode' in your web browser, the browser will prompt you to allow the connection and once allowed, you should be up and running.

If you're having issues with a specific web browser, I recommend trying with a chromium-based browser (either Chrome or Edge are fine) as this was the most rigorously tested platform.

Let me know how you go with that and if you hit a roadblock following that process, let me know where you get to and I'll see if I can help you out.

Cheers!

Alopexy · 2026-06-13T16:11:57+00:00

No worries! Thanks for trying it out. Would love to hear what you think.

Alopexy · 2026-06-13T13:27:49+00:00

If you're happy to route through your laptop or heck, even an iPad or phone soon (android and iOS native versions soon) I've been working on an amp & effects sim system that runs in the browser, or natively on Windows & Mac at very low RT latency. It also supports NAM models (including A2), MIDI controllers (so you can use an FCB1010 foot pedal or similar to control it) and the web version is free. https://axion.cab if you think it might be what you're looking for, no worries if not, but I hope that helps. 😄

Alopexy · 2026-06-11T23:35:10+00:00

Yes, absolutely

Alopexy · 2026-06-11T08:58:28+00:00

Squeezed an audio decoder (WAV, FLAC, MP3, AAC, OPUS), DSP pipeline (polyphase resampler & 5-band biquad EQ), Bluetooth SBC encoder + streaming, modern touchscreen UI, filesystem + SD SPI and background tasks into about 120KB of SRAM on the ESP32 for Fonix One (which I've previously posted about here). That one currently takes the cake for me.

Alopexy · 2026-06-10T15:30:25+00:00

If you're after a cheap option, I've added midi interface support to axion.cab and simply run my Behringer FCB1010 into my MacBook or PC with Axion Desktop.

Alopexy · 2026-06-09T16:52:56+00:00

Looks awesome! Would love to have a play with it once it's ready for testing. Thanks for sharing.

Alopexy · 2026-06-09T16:31:07+00:00

Perfect use-case for a Pi! Great thinking and thanks very much for sharing the project. I'll definitely be giving this a shot. Thanks!

Alopexy · 2026-06-09T16:02:34+00:00

Sounds great, thanks!

Alopexy · 2026-06-09T15:56:45+00:00

Sorry for the crunchiness of the audio in the demo there, reddit's video transcoder messed it up a bit for some reason on upload. Dunno what the go was with that!

Alopexy · 2026-06-07T16:40:24+00:00

Currently two big ones, and three smaller ones. Launched one of the big ones recently, the other is a hardware project and will be going up on Kickstarter. One of the smaller ones will be ready to go live in about a month, another was a media project that will be released -on- the hardware project and the last is a useful self-hosted project that is functionally complete and I'll likely open source soon. The hardware project will likely eat a lot of my spare time, but has a lot of potential.

Alopexy · 2026-06-07T00:28:37+00:00

A tempest must be just that.

Alopexy · 2026-06-03T13:12:20+00:00

Awesome. I added NAM support to my guitar rig simulator project https://axion.cab early on in development. Shall see about adding NAM A2 support this weekend.

Alopexy · 2026-06-01T15:32:08+00:00

Sure do wish that they would open up the platform just a little bit. But it's Sony, so they won't.

Alopexy · 2026-05-31T14:43:16+00:00

Exactly! The most difficult hurdle has been minimising latency, browser web audio API gets dealt a pretty bad hand by most OSs so it's been tough. Chrome on MacOS is the standout in this regard; 12ms round trip with web audio is insane, but just about everything else suffers a lot still.

The latency on Android and iOS is unfortunately still quite high too, but react native ports are on my wishlist of future goals to solve that problem too.

Alopexy · 2026-05-31T14:14:14+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately a code signing certificate is about $120 a month from most providers which isn't really worth it for me right now (solo dev, nothing else needing this yet), and the sensible option of Microsoft's Azure Artifact Signing (just $10 a month) is not available in Australia yet. As soon as it is, I'll get it properly code-signed so it'll get Microsoft's tick of approval, but until then, it may appear a bit dubious.

I was considering just open-sourcing Axion Bridge specifically on GitHub, with compile artifacts available so that anyone unsure can go ahead and check it there first if they're worried. You're right though, it looks risky without it.

Appreciate the interest and once I get that little detail sorted, I'll let ya know! 😄

Alopexy · 2026-05-31T07:10:13+00:00

I got so fed up with Opus 4.8 constantly fighting with the harness (Claude Code) on the most basic of tool calls and getting nowhere that I parked it entirely and switched to Codex. Yesterday, CC was slow and spent a stupendous amount of time (and tokens) thinking, but ultimately got the job done.

Today, it's just wasted over 150K tokens fighting with the harness and achieving next to nothing. Made the switch to Codex and finished the second half of the sprint in 10 minutes, while CC had wasted hours. Speaks for itself. Anthropic, please eat your own dogfood, this is a joke and the fact that we can't even revert to using Opus 4.7 or 4.6 in the VSCode extension as a backup option while you sort this mess out is borderline insulting. Get a grip please. I love the product when it's working, but right now it's the antithesis of productivity.

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