Mindflood Ltd., the company behind Patchblocks, has launched a Kickstarter project to fund the production of minijam studio – a new collection of portable electronic music gear.

minijam is based on the idea of boiling down a hardware studio or live performance setup to very compact and affordable products. The studio includes a drum machine, a wavetable synthesizer, an analog filter, a mixer and a speaker.

Here’s the official intro video:

Here’s an in-depth look at the drum machine module:

Here’s a closer look at the minijam tek.waves prototype:

This is a demonstration of how minijam machines play together with other gear such as Pocket Operators, Volcas, and of course Patchblocks:

Each device is powered by a rechargeable battery and can be used standalone or as part of the set. You don’t need any software or mobile phone. The mixer keeps all connected devices synchronised and also allows for the integration of other hardware using sync triggers on the second channel of the stereo connectors. (e.g. Pocket Operators, Volcas,etc.)

Product Details:

tek.drum – Drum Machine: 8 Drum-Synthesis tracks with 4 parameters per track 8 Patterns with 16 steps automation and parameter locks of all 32 parameters pattern chaining up to 128 steps global delay send effect save patterns and automation to flash up to 12h battery life (rechargeable via Micro USB) Dimensions (l/w/h): 15.5 x 6.5 x 3.2 (cm), Weight: 100g Kickstarter price 45.00 GBP (MSRP 60.00GBP)

tek.waves – Wavetable Synthesizer 16 fully automatable sound parameters divided into 4 pages 3 wave table banks (vowel, classic, harmonic) arpeggiator with hold, octave range and arp mode settings 4 patterns with up to 128 steps per pattern scale select, and 2 octave keyboard within selected scale global delay send effect save patterns and automation to flash up to 12h battery life (rechargeable via Micro USB) Dimensions (l/w/h): 15.5 x 6.5 x 3.2 (cm), Weight: 100g Kickstarter price 45.00 GBP (MSRP 60.00GBP)

tek.filter – Analog Filter audio input and output 2 pole resonant low-pass / band-pass filter up to 40h battery life (rechargeable via Micro USB) Dimensions (l/w/h): 11.5 x 6.5 x 3.2 (cm), Weight: 65g Kickstarter price 40.00 GBP (MSRP 50.00GBP)

.hub – 3 Channel Mixer 3 mono channel input with sync trigger output per channel (stereo cable) digital encoder and display to set tempo 44.1kHz 16bit .wav recording to micro SD card up to 8h battery life (rechargeable via Micro USB) Dimensions (l/w/h): 14.0 x 6.5 x 3.2 (cm), Weight: 95g Kickstarter price 45.00 GBP (MSRP 60.00GBP)

.boom – Portable Speaker small, battery powered speaker integrated 3.5mm audio cable Dimensions (dia/h): 5.0/7.0 x 6.0(cm), Weight: 130g Just included in the set



Pricing and Availability

The minijam studio will be priced at 130.00 GBP (about US $163). Additional options are available at the Kickstarter project page. Shipping is expected to be in September 2017.