DU-INO: The Ultimate Eurorack Arduino Shield

A project in Windsor, Canada by Aaron Mavrinac
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DU-INO is a Eurorack synthesizer module and Arduino shield from Detroit Underground that can become anything you want it to be.
Backers: 56
Average Pledge Per Backer: $333 CAD

Funded: $18,635 CAD of $16,500 CAD
Dates: Sep 7th -> Oct 7th (30 days)
Project By: Aaron Mavrinac
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Latest News

Success!

October 7th - via: kickstarter.com
DU-INO is funded and heading to production! Thank you all for being part of both this campaign and the new DU-INO community! It goes without saying that this wouldn't have beem possible without your financial support, but beyond that, your... (Read More)

Let's sell 3 more DU-INOs!

October 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Wow, 94 percent! Thanks for the support everyone! It looks like we're going to be able to get these things built. We just need 3 more units to be spoken for in the next 26 hours. Maybe you know someone who's on the fence? Perhaps you were considering... (Read More)

Final Week and Hacker Documentation

October 1st - via: kickstarter.com
We're in the final week of the campaign, and we're 87% funded with a boatload of followers soon to be reminded. Let's try to show them a 100% funded campaign when they open those emails later this week! Thanks to everyone who's re-shared and bumped... (Read More)

Closing in on the Final Week!

September 27th - via: kickstarter.com
9 days to go, and we just need about 10 more backers to cross the finish line. That means if each of you convinces one quarter of a person to back us, we're golden! We're all set to hit the ground running when funding comes through. The parts are... (Read More)

Toward Production

September 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Wow! With just under two weeks to go, we're already almost three quarters of the way funded. And, we still have a veritable army of followers, whom we're diligently working to turn to the dark side. On top of that, I've been getting lots of... (Read More)

Synthtopia Interview

September 21st - via: kickstarter.com
In case you haven't seen it, DU-INO was recently featured on Synthtopia with an interview video from Knobcon. I had two days to practice summarizing the module's features before this interview, so the video packs in some good information and... (Read More)

Function Spotlight: PLSR Stochastic Drum Sequencer

September 19th - via: kickstarter.com
DU-INO carries the Detroit Underground brand, so like DU-SEQ and DU-RDT before it, expect a lot of the functions we release for it to bring the random, generative, and glitchy characteristics of experimental techno. Yet another idea I originally... (Read More)

Almost halfway there!

September 16th - via: kickstarter.com
We're nearing the halfway point of our funding goal, and I just wanted to thank everyone who's pledged to pick up one or two DU-INOs at our exclusive Kickstarter pricing for being part of making this awesome product reality. Looking forward to... (Read More)

Function Spotlight: Prophet VS Envelope Generator

September 14th - via: kickstarter.com
I have had an ongoing love affair with psychedelic ambient downtempo electronic music since I first pushed play on a copy of Music Has the Right to Children. There is a particular set of complex, evolving synth voices I really dig, that I eventually... (Read More)

Feature Spotlight: OLED, Encoder, and Widgets

September 13th - via: kickstarter.com
With our previous modules, I've followed a set of design principles that capture what the spirit of modular synthesis is for me: A module should do one thing, and do it well (the Unix philosophy). A module should be built from analog and discrete... (Read More)

Function Spotlight: DU-RDT Emulator

September 12th - via: kickstarter.com
At the beginning of 2016, we started shipping our second module design in kit form: the DU-RDT sequential logic module. A relatively simple set of logic functions (namely, a linear feedback shift register with two addressable outputs, plus D and T... (Read More)

Feature Spotlight: Analog Computer

September 10th - via: kickstarter.com
My education is in electrical engineering, but that's a broad field and I have lived most of my career in digital systems and artificial perception algorithms. Part of what interests me about modular synthesizers is the purely analog: the creative... (Read More)

Knobcon Wrap-Up and Spotlight Updates

September 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to everyone who came to check out our booth at Knobcon. The response was very positive and we got some great feedback. In the coming week, I'll be posting spotlights on features and functions to fill in more of the picture of what DU-INO is... (Read More)

Knobcon Day 3

September 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Today at our Knobcon exhibit, we're demonstrating a patch using the DU-INO quanztizer and PLSR stochastic drum sequencer functions, along with our other DU modules. The drum sequencer is especially exciting: instead of each step in a pattern being on... (Read More)

Check us out at Knobcon

September 8th - via: kickstarter.com
We're set up and demoing the DU-SEQ and dual ADSR/VCA functions along with our other modules right near the doors at the Knobcon exhibit room. Come say hi!  (Read More)

Heading to Knobcon!

September 7th - via: kickstarter.com
We're on our way to Knobcon outside Chicago today, where we'll be demoing the DU-INO prototypes alongside our fellow Windsor-based synth designer, Therevox. Drop by our booth and say hello!  (Read More)

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