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Open source electronic musical instruments. Designed in London, made in Brighton, built and used by musicians around the world.

Devices:

NEW: Workshop System

is a complete DIY modular synth that's smaller than a hardback book ➔

8mu

is a hackable midi controller that's smaller than a credit card ➔

Mikrophonie v3

is an updated contact mic and preamp for your modular ➔

Turing Machine

is a very popular DIY random sequencer. It uses logic chips to spit out basslines and melodies ➔

London Drive

is another simple, great sounding overdrive, this time inspired by the VCS3 ➔

Mini Drive

is just a simple, great sounding, overdrive module inspired by the Minimoog ➔

Twin Drive

is a great sounding stereo overdrive  ➔

Easel Proto

is a DIY-friendly prototype card for the Buchla Music Easel ➔

Easel Clock

gets clocks in and out of a Buchla Music Easel ➔

Control

is four big finger-friendly knobs for precise & playable tweaking ➔

Startup

is a headphone amp, mixer & clock in 4hp, perfect for a small Eurorack case ➔

Magnetophon

is a cassette player without the transport mechanism ➔

Graphic EQ

is a compact, clean, seven band Eurorack graphic equaliser ➔


Expanders & accessories:

Workshop Notebook paper-based module design tool ➔

Turing: Pulses eleven rhythmic outputs for wONkY drum patterns ➔

Turing: Voltages CV expander with 8 faders ➔

Turing: Volts steerable CV output with five pots ➔


Retired:

Turing Machine mk1  ➔

Turing: Vactrol Mix  ➔

AxoControl  ➔

Spring Reverb Expander  ➔

Spring Reverb mk1  ➔

Move  ➔

Radio Music mk1  ➔

Chord Organ mk1  ➔

Mikrophonie 2014  ➔

Spring Reverb Mk2  ➔

Simple EQ  ➔


Talking & writing:

The Music Thing Modular Reading List  ➔

Soldering for beginners How to solder if you've never soldered before ➔

Speaker One notes on making my first speakers ➔

Why We Bleep 5 on creativity and momentum ➔

TRS Midi Tester tiny gadget for checking Type A & Type B midi ➔

Why We Bleep 4 on Kraftwerk, field recordings and Spotify ➔

Synth Design Podcast on community, Turing design and Prince ➔

Knob Twiddlers Hangout on AI, Speedy J and my coding mentor ➔

Human-sized musical interfaces  ➔

Podular Modcast on tiny cases and getting started ➔

Why We Bleep 3 on anechoic chambers and manufacturing costs ➔

Why We Bleep 2 on DX7s and brain-cell synths ➔

Why We Bleep 1 on La Monte Young and chutzpah ➔

Art + Music + Technology on self indulgence and open source ➔

Synths, giant squid and the military industrial complex  ➔

How to design a module when you've never designed a module before ➔

Everything I know about Spring Reverb  ➔

I went to see La Monte Young playing in his New York loft and you should do the same ➔

The easiest way to get simple chords from a modular synth ➔

How I recorded an album in an evening with a lunchbox modular and a python script ➔

Kick drum mods on a Boss DR-55 drum machine ➔

Slow Electronics What I learned building a Princeton Reverb amp ➔

Adding CV control to a Boss PS-2 Delay Pedal ➔

Adding an effects loop to a Wurlitzer EP-200 Electric Piano ➔

Why do all records sound the same?  ➔

Music Thing Modular Reverb Shop  ➔

Become a beta tester (+ occasional updates) ➔