# dlt2000/xc-soundfont-synth > An ESP-IDF component that turns SoundFont (SF2) files into PCM16 stereo audio for DIY electronic instruments, using TinySoundFont under the hood. It handles note events, expression and legato, and passes rendered audio to your own output backend. - Magnitude: 3.8 out of 10 — Early signal - Stars: 172 total · +16 stars measured 2026-10-26, 18:33–21:45 UTC, ≈ 18 by evening - Star trust: star growth looks organic - Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: C · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-24 · Last push: 2026-10-24 - GitHub: https://github.com/dlt2000/xc-soundfont-synth · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/dlt2000/xc-soundfont-synth ## Useful for - Build an electronic wind instrument firmware that maps breath sensor input to note pitch and loudness. - Render SoundFont notes to I2S from an ESP32 board with a filesystem-mounted SF2 file. - Add light reverb and ~5 ms legato transitions between notes in a monophonic sensor-driven instrument. ## Why it’s here - Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-26 (UTC), 18:33–21:45: 156 → 172 stars (+16). This is the change over that interval. - Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +18 stars, using observed gains and the previous day. - The repository is 2 days old and already has 172 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet. - Top new repositories this week: #138. - About 5 forks a day — people are taking the code. ## Star trust Star growth looks organic. Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer. ## Numbers - Forks: 11 - Issues and pull requests: 0 - Watchers: 0 - Average over the last week: 39 per day - Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks) - Stars in the last hour (measured): 1 ## Stars per day, last 3 days (oldest → newest, today is partial) 2026-10-24 … 2026-10-26: 57, 42, 16 ## Spotted in now - Top new repositories this week: #138 ## More in this category 1. **Zagitta/gpu-unlock** — 9.7 · Breakout · Hardware, IoT & robotics · C · +2,833 stars measured 2026-10-26, 00:11–21:43 UTC, ≈ 3,106 by evening Linux kernel module that unlocks certain NVIDIA GA102/GA104 GPU features (e.g. RTX 3090) before the nvidia driver binds, using the CMP unlocker technique and UEFI timing. Requires a cold boot and opt-in via the gpu_unlock.targets kernel… Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/Zagitta/gpu-unlock.md 2. **JustAResearcher/gpu-unlock-ada** — 8.3 · Breakout · Hardware, IoT & robotics · C · +1,188 stars measured 2026-10-26, 00:11–21:43 UTC, ≈ 1,304 by evening A Linux kernel module that applies an SM speed-select override before the stock NVIDIA driver binds, roughly doubling FP16/BF16 tensor throughput with FP32 accumulation on RTX 4090 (AD102) and experimentally on RTX 4070 Ti SUPER (AD103). Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/JustAResearcher/gpu-unlock-ada.md 3. **impacifist/Windows-GPU-UNLOCK** — 7.0 · Early signal · Hardware, IoT & robotics · C · +380 stars measured 2026-10-26, 00:11–21:43 UTC, ≈ 415 by evening Experimental UEFI bootloader for one documented RTX 3090 FE system: performs a headless GPU unlock and hands off directly to Windows without a reset. Source-only, requires building your own EFI. Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/impacifist/Windows-GPU-UNLOCK.md 4. **notaroomba/keybytes** — 6.5 · Early signal · Hardware, IoT & robotics · C · +231 stars measured 2026-10-26, 04:19–21:43 UTC, ≈ 252 by evening A modular keyboard where each key is its own 1u PCB with a CH32V003, pogo pins and magnetic cases, while an STM32WB55 main board provides Bluetooth and USB. Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/notaroomba/keybytes.md 5. **wangrongding/tv-fresh** — 6.2 · Early signal · Hardware, IoT & robotics · Shell · +152 stars measured 2026-10-26, 00:11–21:43 UTC, ≈ 167 by evening A guide and Agent Skill for modding Chinese Xiaomi MIUI TV sets: removing ads, swapping the launcher, installing a proxy and media apps over ADB without root and with full rollback. Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/wangrongding/tv-fresh.md --- Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score. Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast. Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself. Data as of 2026-10-26 21:55 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.