Glossary

This wiki breaks down the terms used throughout the project to facilitate easy navigation and comprehension.

Daisy - Daisy refers to the overall product family of embedded sound computers and associated hardware. Generally the term Daisy can also be used for the computing board itself. The term Daisy is similar to the term Arduino. Arduino refers to the product family, but the Uno refers to a specific product. However if you say "an Arduino", it can be inferred that you are talking about one of the computing boards that they sell, and not a hat or add on which merely adds functionality to the core product.

Seed - Seed is a system on module (SOM) for embedded audio applications. It is the size of a stick of gum, and fits easily into breadboards, synth modules, and guitar pedals. It does not have any connectors on-board, so it must be installed into a breakout board of some type before it becomes useful. Sometimes the Seed is referred to as the "Daisy Seed", this is akin to saying "Raspberry Pi Model B", or "Arduino Uno".

Pod - Pod is a breakout board for the Daisy Seed. It connects the pin headers on the Seed to connectors such as 3.5mm audio jacks, micro SD card socket, potentiometers, encoder, etc. It is powered over USB.

Field - Field is a desktop synthesizer for the Daisy Seed. You can think of it as a breakout board which supplies standard IO within a desktop synth environment. Audio IO is line level and it's powered from 9V.

Petal - Petal is a guitar pedal for the Daisy Seed. You can think of it as a breakout board which supplies standard IO within a guitar pedal environment. Audio IO can be instrument or line level and it's powered from 9V.

Patch - Patch is a Eurorack module for the Daisy Seed. You can think of it as a breakout board which supplies standard IO within the Eurorack modular environment. Audio IO is modular level and it's powered from +/-12V.

libDaisy - Code library for hardware peripherals and drivers such as codec communication, ADC reads, USB implementation, etc. MIT license.

DaisySP - DSP code library for use on the Daisy product family and elsewhere. MIT license.