FAQ

Q. Is this a hardware of software synthesizer?
A.This is a hardware project, the end product will be a physical device. The sound generation circuit is designed using the SystemVerilog hardware description language, the MIDI protocol stack and control firmware is written in the C programming language.

Q. Where does the pasde2.com web site name come from and how is it pronounced?
A. Do you really want to know? It is a contrived acronym / play on words. The acronym is for "Performance Analog Synthesizer Digital Emulation II". In the tradition of great synthesizers and open source projects whose name are not pronounced as they are written, it is pronounced like the French "pas de deux" (PAW-D'-DER) which is a ballet term for a dance duet. I registered the domain name when I was preparing to work on digital emulation of analog synthesizers (in hardware, of course), but the RTFM project took precedence. The play on word is that in French "pas de deux" also means "no twos" which is appropriate for digital logic where there are only zeroes and ones, no twos.