reflecticon-224

For people looking for the Lexicon 224 which supposedly is on GitHub, here are two possible links: https://github.com/joelanders/reflecticon-224 This one needs actual 224 ROMs to run, but we also have... https://github.com/filipeborato/borato-224 The second one is an 8-line FDN. While the actual 224 used “circle 8” algorithms instead of FDNs (it was Eventide who started using FDNs for reverberation) one can get amazing reverbs from a FDN, e.g. Valhalla Supermassive is a 16-line FDN where the 16 delay line amounts are the only thing that changes between algorithms. I myself have made a good sounding 4-line FDN reverb, and 8 lines was used in one of FreeVerb’s algorithms.

I'm guessing the Lexicon was mine: https://github.com/joelanders/reflecticon-224 It was a fun project because it predates DSP chips by a couple years (1978). So there's an 8080 host driving some DSP boards made out of 7400 series chips. Bio of the designer with a photo of him prototyping it: https://www.davidgriesinger.com/biographies/ I haven't written it up yet, that part is still hard :) I paid someone on Upwork to trace the schematics into KiCad. Had LLM agents turn those into Verilog models. Lots of little mistakes had to be found and fixed at this point, it took months... It seems like agents are a lot better at transcribing and grokking schematics now compared to 6 months ago, so it might be much easier now. Agree that consequences for the future seem depressing...