Building a Zynthian Box using an official Kit

1 Introduction

This tutorial is intended for those who are building a Zynthian Box using one of the kits i offer here:

Zynthian Kits

Anyway, it's quite detailed and can be used as a guide to build your Zynthian Box from scratch. Of course, you will have to be more creative if you want to do it in that way ;-)

2 Some definitions

2.1 Zynthian

It's a project with the goal of creating an Open Synth Platform. It's a community-driven project. If you are here, probably you already know this ;-)

2.2 Zynthian Box

A Zynthian Box is a hardware device designed to run the Zynthian Software. Currently it's based in the Raspberry Pi computer platform.

This is a sketch with the main blocks of a Zynthian Box:

And this is the electric scheme of a Zynthian Box, excluding soundcard and display:

In the project repositories you will find all the electric schemes, PCB specifications, Herber files, etc. to build your own zynthian box from scratch:

[ Zynthian Hardware Repository]
[ Zynthian Case Repository]

2.3 Zynthian Software

The Zynthian Software is Free Software The Zynthian Software stack consist of:

* GNU Linux Operating System: Raspbian Jessie (Minibian is used in the last SD images)
* Jack Audio Daemon
* A collection of Synth Engines & LV2 Plugins
* Zynthian User Interface

3 The Zynthian Kit

The basic Zynthian Kit is composed