My bouncy synthpop tune made entirely with the kit-built Shruthi-1 by Mutable Instruments. This Shruthi-1 features the 4-Pole Mission filter board. All patches are Shruthi-1 presets – I’ve added eq, reverb and delay to taste.

You can download the song from soundcloud if you like.

Antarctica – a Shruthi-1 4-Pole Mission Demo is made available under the following Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Taiwan (more details)

I’m enjoying the little Shruthi-1 synth so much, that I’ve decided to build a second unit. The new one has the 4-Pole Mission filter board and I’m looking forward to hearing how it differs from my current Shruthi-1. This time I opted to buy just the pcb’s (sexy in white!) and to source the components myself online – actually I had quite a bit of help, since I could grab the BOMs here. I’m just about finished with the build, but I’m waiting for this (PDF) to arrive so that I can program the chip. Fun times, if you’re into this kind of geekery. If you want a Shruthi-1, but don’t want to build one yourself, drop me a line – I’m sure we can work something out ;^) I’ll do a demo with the 4PM Shruthi-1 once I have it up and running. In the meantime, here are some pics from the build…

Here’s something I made to show off the Shruthi-1 a little more, made with 100% Shruthi-1 preset sounds. Love this little box!

Ode to Shruthi-1 is made available under the following Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Taiwan (more details)