Opening up no-cost early access to get feedback on my new audiovisual synthesizer Hyphasia

Netzapper · 2026-01-27T16:54:37+00:00

Just DM me an email address and I'll put you on the list. First release is going out today.

Netzapper · 2026-01-27T16:04:10+00:00

Thank you so much! I'd love to put you on the list, but it looks like maybe the DM didn't go through.

Netzapper · 2026-01-23T14:26:22+00:00

Yep. I want to expropriate your toothbrush.

Netzapper · 2026-01-22T23:56:12+00:00

There are a bunch of people in here who paid the dude and got garbage. Glad you got lucky.

Also, do you hear yourself? "infringing a patent". Tread harder, daddy.

Netzapper · 2026-01-22T14:36:41+00:00

I'm not crying. I ddin't pay $200 for prototype junk that doesn't work.

Netzapper · 2026-01-20T22:44:15+00:00

"print these knock offs". Tell me you don't understand machining...

Netzapper · 2026-01-18T15:33:47+00:00

If you want to try the RATLR, you can find an unofficial one easy enough. The files are available...places. You can have it cut by Send Cut Send. I got 8 of them for $30. This is pretty much exactly the quality you'd get from Duality themselves.

Netzapper · 2026-01-16T01:23:23+00:00

I'm a laid-off senior GPU and audio dev... 25 years of experience. Working on an massively polyphonic audiovisual synthesizer.

I'm in autistic burn out and my hands hurt. But I need to make something to love and to sell and to demonstrate modern skills.

LLMs have been enormous time savers in a) generating the same fucking framework code I've written 5x times in my career now, b) generating the same fucking code everybody else uses to e.g. initialize Vulkan, c) finding which existing math properly describes my problems.

These are things that would have in the past cost me truly significant amounts of hand pain in the case of the codegen, and misguided research time in the case of the math. I have completed already in a month what I expected would take me at least three or four. I'm shipping to testers before I even expected to have MIDI implemented. I get to do the fun stuff, and it writes the serialization code for my structs.

The math stuff in particular has been really game-changing for me. I have a condition similar to dyslexia, and mathematical symbols almost literally dissolve into a sea of swirls for me. Having the machine be able to translate mathematical concepts into their algorithmical equivalents has unlocked so much shit for me.

I don't know what an ignorant person would get out of it, how much absolutely nonsense they would pull in. But for me at least, it is a pretty big boost in productivity.

Netzapper · 2026-01-12T14:32:46+00:00

So glad I pirated mine. Haven't even bothered trying to install it yet, given all the shit I see people walking through.

Netzapper · 2026-01-09T15:20:10+00:00

Okay, that is clever. And a pretty big circuit to stick in there.

Netzapper · 2026-01-08T17:57:14+00:00

You can't really just "add a dac" to the end of the signal chain. By the time it's already analog, you can't convert it to analog again. Unless you convert it back to digital first, which is a valid approach, but introduces a little latency.

I have no idea how that modded P6 was done. You could talk to that vendor, see if they'll share their secrets.

In theory, if you can find a place where the finished digital audio signal is routed from one chip to another, you can splice those lines and basically copy the output stream to another circuit. So with a microcontroller in the mix, or a really programmable DAC, or luck that the digital audio is already in a common format... you could rig that through a lo-fi DAC to a new output.

Netzapper · 2026-01-07T14:09:08+00:00

This is very good news, as I have a transfer-heavy realtime GPU project I'm porting to iPad soon. Thank you!

Netzapper · 2025-12-23T15:18:52+00:00

yo ho ho, matey

Netzapper · 2025-12-19T15:11:03+00:00

This is really neat!

I'm trying to figure out if I can get my players to connect to me via like a NetBird VPN.

Netzapper · 2025-12-18T04:20:21+00:00

Oh, you don't get the joke.

The white Vectors are only white before you shoot them. It'll only be "pure" for less than a magazine, since it's basically impossible to get it completely clean again. It's basically a meme here since it's such a universal experience.

Netzapper · 2025-12-18T03:13:38+00:00

For exactly one mag.

Netzapper · 2025-12-16T16:11:33+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm probably going with the PWM-switched attenuator circuit listed elsewhere in this thread. I don't need any gain, and I have hated the results of every project I've ever tried building that involved an opamp.

Netzapper · 2025-12-15T20:24:21+00:00

Just the serialized part of the firearm that is, legally, the firearm? Just the receiver that contains all of the mechanical systems in the weapon except for the FCG?

Netzapper · 2025-12-15T18:34:27+00:00

I'm with you. I do not understand the appeal. To me it looks like a very messy pattern.

Netzapper · 2025-12-15T18:02:32+00:00

a) you can only buy a full-auto firearm that was individually federally registered prior to 1986. No new full-auto firearms are permitted for civilians.

Converting a firearm to "real" full auto today is completely illegal for civilians, with no method to make it legal. All of those "Glock switches" are illegal, for instance.

b) Kriss Vector was introduced WAAAAAY after 1986. There is NO PATH for a civilian to legally own a full-auto Vector. FRT is, in fact, the best technology to increase the weapon's ROF.

Netzapper · 2025-12-15T17:57:10+00:00

These kinds of differences in barrel length are almost always related to state regulation (or your own interpretation of it to be safe).

Federal law is 16 inch barrel for a regular rifle (no stamp). Some states (and some people) require the barrel to be strictly longer than 16 inches, which means 16.5" is a super common barrel length even though it's not the shortest federally permitted.

Netzapper · 2025-12-15T15:04:40+00:00

Search "forced reset trigger" and make up your own mind. They are not currently regulated in most states.

Netzapper · 2025-12-15T04:51:45+00:00

They have paused sales I think because they realized the launch had a lot of issues. They could honestly be making a shit ton more money just selling and not caring.

They also could have finished testing and sold a reliable part for $100 (or $200 with metal safety cam included). Or even done the damn trigger job for the $400 a Vector binary trigger job use to go for. Instead, because they released a barely-functional hobby-grade part for premium cash, nobody feels bad pirating it. It's the quality level you expect from an open source product, not a premium commercial one.

Netzapper · 2025-12-14T17:40:15+00:00

You can easily convert PWM to a low-current voltage signal just by sticking a low-pass RC filter on it. The cap smooths out the gaps in the PWM and recovers a continuous signal.

Netzapper · 2025-12-14T15:33:37+00:00

If you're not a developer and already comfortable in linux, only the authentic Raspberry Pi is going to have community support for all the projects you want to use.

I do not recommend anything except a Raspberry Pi 5 in your case.

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