The Peeps Music Box is a battery powered digital handmade synthesizer.



It’s a micro version of the «Buchla Music Easel», one of the best synthesizer ever made, designed by Don Buchla in 1972.

Some features were deleted but others were added. It is not a modular synthesizer like the original Buchla, but all the switch buttons act like pre-patched possibilities that I felt like the most interesting patchs to use with the original Music Easel.



The Peeps Music Box have all these functions :

(*features added)



2 Oscillators :

- First the «Mod-Osc» is a triangle-wave just a bit sinefolded

- Second the Complex-Osc is a sine-wave with a powerful Wavefolder

- Mod-Osc can modulate the Complex-Osc and switch between FM & AM with depth for both.

- Both Oscillators can be Hard sync for FM synthesis*

- The Mod-Osc Pitch is bipolar & can go really low to act like an LFO

- The Complex Pitch is unipolar

- Both have Finetune for AM and not-synced FM harmonic research or perfectly tuning them together.



1 LFO* :

- Can be sine-wave or random sample&hold

- Can act to the pitch of each oscillators & as the clock master for the sequencer



2 Lowpass gate :

- One for the Mod Osc & second one for the Complex osc



2 Lowpass filter :

- One for the mod Osc & second one for the Complex osc



1 Attack :

- Applied to both Osc.



4 Step sequencer :

- Can be set to each Osc & to the Wavefolder.

- Can run up or up&down*

- All step can be switched off



2 Channel mixer :

- One channel per oscillators



1 Reverb :

- With mix & time



1 Touch sensitive keyboard :

- 13 keys with octave switch up & down*

- can act on each oscillators.



3 Touch plates :

- With their own adjustable pitch



1 Arpeggiator :

- In order mode

- Can be sustained, even on several switched octaves*

- Can be sync to the sequencer or have his own clock for doing Polyrythmic things



1 glide :

- With a decay value can be really long



1 Main volume



Each oscillators can choose their own controller between Keyboards, Touch plates or sequencer. But the Complex-Osc have the option to only recive the gate from the sequencer and not the pitch.



As you can see on this video, there is a black switch button next to an audio input. I’m still working on some features and it will be able to get stereo audio input signal going trough the reverb, or switch to the most important, recive a clock from Eurorack, PO-sync, Volca etc… to sync the internal sequencer and arpeggiator with external devices.

Also, because on my studio/live config I don’t use midi connection, I didn’t placed a midi input connection, but this is totally possible. You can also control The Peeps Music Box from any DAW with a simple micro USB connection.