DIY Synth Convention @ Incubate, Tilburg, NL

Soulsby Synthesizers will be at the DIY Synth Convention at Incubate Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands.
DIY Synth Convention
Pieter Vreedeplein 169, Tilburg
Thursday September 17th - Sunday September 20th 2015
Opening hours: 14:00 - 21:00h
Entrance Free
More details here: http://incubate.org/2015/215/diy-synth-convention
There will be Atmegatrons to play and buy, including some discounted B-stock. There will also be a limited number of miniAtmegatrons to buy and build at the workshops.
There's also many other top indy manufacturers there as well as talks and performances. Hope to see you there!

FTDI programmer cable

I've just realised that there are very few FTDI programmer cables available on eBay and Amazon at the moment and the few that are on there are really over priced.

I'm am looking into stocking these cables myself, but this may take a couple of weeks to arrange. The the meantime, I recommend using the following electronics suppliers:

Farnell
RS
Mouser

2 miniAtmegatron tutorials now up

There's now 2 miniAtmegatron tutorials on the Tutorials page. The first shows you how to assembly it and the second shows you how to MIDI-hack your Arduino Uno. If you bought a MIDI-hacked Arduino Uno with your miniAtmegatron, there is no need to watch the second one. The MIDI-hack vid is for Windows users only. A Mac one will be uploaded next week (it's a different process for Mac).

Relaunch update 2!

Good news! I have managed to ship all orders placed between Monday (24th) and Thursday (27th). I also have a fresh batch of Arduinos for the minis. Took a few late nights, but I'm pleased to say that normal service has resumed!

Relaunch Update

Just a quick note to say that the relaunch is going really well. I've been inundated with orders, which is great! The downside is that although I've started shipping, the most recent orders (from Weds/Thurs) may not ship until next week. Apologies for this.

This also means that I've fallen behind with making the video tutorials. Luckily Bent-tronics have already done an amazing assembly tutorial! I hope to do the tutorial for MIDI-hacking your Arduino Uno tomorrow (Friday), all being well.

Re/Launch Day at Soulsby Synthesizers!

Atmegatron

The Atmegatron relaunches today at the new price of £199 / €299 / $299. It is available from the webshop and distributors will have stock imminently.
There's also a new 90 second promo which covers all of the essentials.

News on the much-anticipated Odytron software soon!

miniAtmegatron

The miniAtmegatron launches today. It is a synthesizer shield kit for the Arduino Uno. The sound engine is based on the Atmegatron. They retail for £29 / €39 / $39. The kit contains the PCB, all components and instructions. It doesn't contain an Arduino Uno. By MIDI-hacking your Arduino Uno, the miniAtmegatron can be controlled via MIDI over USB. There will be a tutorial on how to do it this week.
This 90 second promo covers the essentials about the miniAtmegatron.

There is also a comparison table on the Products page.

Atmegatron (and MiniAtmegatron) Source Code v2.0 Beta

The new version of the Atmegatron source code is available here.

It's a complete rewrite, but fixes all sorts of nags and niggles including:

• Function knob is always responsive (doesn't slow down with complex patches)
• LFO and Arpeggiator completely tightly locked together
• User waves increased from 6 to 16 (used in conjunction with Librarian software)
• External MIDI clock + Arpeggiator no longer freezes at high divisions
• Slightly improved Phaser algorithm
• Setting for more natural sounding exponential envelopes (default on)
• Setting for internal BPM (default 120)
• Setting for note priority (default High)
• Setting for legato mode (default on)
• Easter Egg!

This a beta version. Once finalised it will ship with all the new Atmegatrons which will be available later this month.

The handful of people who have pre-release MiniAtmegatrons can also find new MiniAtmegatron source code with new features and tweaks