Regular price CAD$779.00
Plinky 12 Blocks is part of the Plinky 12 family of expressive touch synthesisers.
Make your own Plinky Panel!
You can prototype your own ideas for panels in Custom Panels, using a simple API that gives you easy ways to use all of the hardware features, synth, fx, MIDI, CV connectivity, touch controls.
Compatible with the other members of the Plinky 12 family
Plinky 12's hardware is designed around swappable panels. Instead of one fixed control surface, it can become different instruments built for different kinds of musical thinking.
The built-in sound engine uniquely combines sample playback with wavetable synthesis, with flexibly onboard modulation, parameter editing, XY automation. With a full VCF, VCA, wavefolder, ADSR, XY pad with 2 motion recording LFOs, 5 additional modulation LFOs, accelerometer, CV input and a full 5x30 modulation matrix, the sound design possibilities are endless.
All Plinky 12 units are sold pre-assembled, with additional panels available separately.
The plinky12.com website provides not just online documentation, but also a full in-browser sample editor, bank creation tools, a visual MIDI controller designer, and even a coding environment that lets you create your own synths, controllers or instruments in C++ without having to install anything on your computer. This flexibility means that Plinky 12 will be an evolving platform that the community will be able to create new instruments on over time. The 3 initial SKUs, Blocks, Chords and Toadstep represent our first examples of Plinky 12 instruments. While they stand alone as instruments in their own right, by replacing the panel on the Plinky 12 main unit, the same core device can be turned instantly into any of the other versions, without having to upload any firmware.