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SpinCAD Designer
  • Welcome to SpinCAD Designer!
  • Tutorials
    • Getting Started
    • The User Interface
    • Creating a patch
  • Menus
    • File
    • Edit
    • Loop
  • Blocks
    • I/O Mix
    • Wave Shaper
    • Dynamics
      • RMS Lim/Exp
    • Controls
      • Introduction to control signals and blocks
      • Two-stage
      • Invert, Power, Two-Stage, and Vee
      • Ratio
      • Scale/Offset
      • Clip and Tremolizer
      • Envelope
      • Slicer and Smoother
      • Tap Tempo
    • Pitch
      • The Pitch Offset Blocks
  • Design Concepts
    • Basic LFOs in SpinCAD Designer
    • Deep dive into the Three-Tap Delay block
      • Deep dive into the ThreeTap Delay, part 1
      • Deep dive into the ThreeTap delay, part 2
      • Deep dive into the ThreeTap Delay, part 3
    • Analyzing the Spin auto-wah peak detector
      • The Spin auto-wah peak detector, part I
      • The Spin auto-wah peak detector, part II
      • The Spin auto-wah peak detector, part III
    • Intro to the "Dattorro" reverb structure
    • Analyzing the Spin Mini Reverb
      • Analyzing the Spin "Mini Reverb" part 1
      • Analyzing the Spin "Mini Reverb" part 2
      • Analyzing the Spin "Mini Reverb" part 3
  • Patches
    • Making a tremolo patch
    • Making a vibrato/chorus patch
    • Making a pitch shifting delay
    • Multi-head "drum/tape" delay
    • 4-phase LFO driven mixer
  • Tips and Tricks
    • Editing tips for fast patch creation
    • Programming the FV-1 EEPROM with your code
    • Optimizing FV-1 assembly code generated by SpinCAD Designer
  • Beneath the Hood
    • How SpinCAD Builder works
    • Analyzing a simple SpinCAD Builder file
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Getting Started

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Visit the and install the SpinCAD JAR file following the instructions.

Before you do any patch design with SpinCAD Designer, you'll want to make sure that the simulator is running with the correct format of WAV file. I've linked to a couple suitable 32768 kHz 16 bit stereo WAV files to get you started. The audio has been normalized to -6 dB.

Drum beat
SpinCAD Designer Github page
Clean guitar loop