Since May 2025 I’ve spent my spare time and some nightshifts on working on an OpenSource Operating System for the Behringer X32. 12 Months later, a community is growing around this software and a lot of things are already working quite well. In this video I’d like to show you the result of one year…
Since November 2022 AI is present in the mainstream: OpenAI published the LLM ChatGPT. Around three years later AI is everywhere: image- and video-generation, translations, audio-plugins and much much more. Hard to believe, but I got in touch with AI 17 years before ChatGPT has been released. During my studies of electrical engineering around 2005,…
The X32 has been around since 2012. But so far, there are no details on how signal processing is carried out in the mixing console. In this video, I would like to give you some insights into the reverse engineering that has been carried out so far. Over the past few months, we have been…
Together with some students and a colleague I took part at the International Future Energy Challenge (IFEC) in 2024. It was a great opportunity to combine my interest on power-electronics, audio-technology and microcontrollers. The topic of this competition was to create a Class-D-Amplifier with three channels and 135W output-power – per channel. Origin of the…
Todays microcontrollers are already capable of processing real-time audio. But if you want to bring down the latency as low as possible, you can use an FPGA – its even faster than modern DSPs that typical use several samples as buffer. The following logic contains a stereo dynamic compressor with controllable threshold, ratio and makeup-gain….
Do you want to know more about StageConnect? Its a connection to transmit 32 uncompressed audio-channels via a single XLR cable. StageConnect is based on A2B, the Automotive Audio Bus (A2B).
A kind of diary of reverse engineering the Behringer X32 to finally process audio with my own audio algorithms within the original audio DSPs… My original plan was to publish a new blog-entry every week. But my current projects got much bigger than I’ve initially planned. So for the sake of the projects, I will…
In this final episode I’ll show how I implemented data-exchange with my card using IRQ and the development of some ShellExtensions and ControlPanel-applets for Windows98. Fixing the SRAM Last time I had some problems with my second SRAM producing noise. It turned out, that I missed two additional lines in the documentation: besides the chip-select…
In part 2 of this series I will show my progress on developing a DIY PCI Card using Alteras FLEX10K FPGAs. Last time I reverse-engineered an old Altera development-board I’ve found on eBay. Unfortunately there was absolutely no documentation about this card so I had to track all traces on the PCB by myself. Of…
Ethernet on Microcontrollers is available without problems: using FreeRTOS or the Arduino-libs is always a good start. But for FPGAs? I was shocked how expensive Ethernet is for FPGAs – but I found a good solution… In 1997 I bought my first NE2000-compatible ISA-Ethernet-Card for my Windows 95 computer. Why? Well, not that my 13-year-old…
