Community

Synthesizers

Crosstalk: Second Reality · published 27 days ago

All events Players around this date Read on Steam

Dev log #n+1

(where n is the index of the last log)

Hello.

This particular log is not bringing any concrete feature to the game. Instead, I want to share something that I thought about and would like to build for Crosstalk.

Having existing interest in synthesizers, I was listening to this video (not affiliated with the author):

I was working on the Crosstalk C emitter to make custom SystemVerilog cores execute faster. Most of the time is currently spent in a combinatorial order stream, then various residues, which massively affects clock.

As I was making improvements and testing them in Crosstalk, all the while listening to the above, an idea occurred to me: I already have an EDA suite with a circuit solver (VCOs, VCA (OTA), VCF, ladders, glides, ADSR, LFO, and modulators) and an FDTD-based simulator for both EM and sound propagation, so what if I built a little lab where people could build synthesizers and then make music? The music would be able to play while working on RTL or later, circuit designs. It is a bit of a tangent, but I decided to give it a shot. I am not sure if the hardware that I have can take it (and I already have a plethora of ideas on how to handle that (it involves serial!)), but I will extract every last cycle from the CPU and possibly GPU to try and make it work.

I will post updates as I go. For now, this is "unofficial" Crosstalk content, i.e. not formally announced anywhere as a part of the game.

Stay tuned if you'd like.

*DanglingPtr

Other announcements

All events

Community7 Sep 2026The first Crosstalk trailer demo board has arrivedThe board mentioned in this post as having been done by the fab has arrived! The conclusion that there are some improvements to be made remains, so this post is just to show a bit more photos.Community4 Sep 2026Hardware Sniffers: The DLUWelcome to the next Hardware Sniffers post entry. Today, the topic is the DLU, which stands for the DANGLING Logic Unit , and it is the first CPU of the MISC architecture . The DLU consists of the following parts: · dangalu.sv: the DANGLING Arithmetic Logic Unit · dangdsu.sv: the DANGLING Sound Unit · dangddu.sv: the DANGLING Display Unit (80x25 text mode + a framebuffer mode, which some parts…Community3 Sep 2026Dropping old achievements that are no longer achievable at releasePrevious achievements are being removed so that the initial Early Access release state of the game contains only those that can be awarded at that time. They will return once EDA features return.