Plinky: A beautiful open-source DIY hardware-synth

...for melancholic blade-runner sounds at night.

Author

Martin Wisniowski
January 21, 2025

Plinky is a beautiful small synth, that comes as a DIY-Kit (or eventually you will also find it pre-assembled somewhere.

It has a very clean UI and beautiful, sort of cyberpunk / blade-runnerish sounds.

It is compativle with Eurorack, so integratable into any module synth setup - but it also works as a stand alone synth. If you build it yourself, you get a lot of value for the price I would say!

Plinky - 8-voice polyphonic touch synthesiser

Plinky specialises in fragile, melancholic sounds. It fits into 24HP eurorack cases, but can also be played as a standalone desktop mini-synth, with line-level stereo input and a headphone output, all powered from a micro-USB connector.

plinkysynth.com

I found even more. The story of the synth:

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