Even as a broke housewife with no eurorack modules but a healthy pedal addiction and synth collection, this scratches a specific itch for me. For the price you've mentioned here, I'll scrape up a few dollars of mad money and see what I can make happen
You might be the only person on the planet that may understand an idea I've had for several years now, AND be able to make it a reality! I shall be following you and this channel with great interest!
I need this in my life. This is the chiptune eurorack module I've been waiting my whole life for. Put me down for a pre-order! I second the other people recommending a Kickstarter. Congratulations on an amazing module!
Very cool! Glad to have stumbled upon this. Looking forward to the preorder. You may want to consider a Kickstarter too. This may be more popular than you think.
"I love this module. It is amazing. I was sent one of these by Corvus for review and I have not left my studio for 12 months" is what i want to saying now
ngl I got real scared for a second there. Still coming along though. I've had to reign in the scope a bit so it doesn't cost $500 (I've made a few prototypes that are straight up monstrous).
Amazing work, you can definitely count me as a day 1 order! And there's probably zero chance this is the case, but if you're ever considering beta signups from DIYers, you can count me as interested in that too!
You need to make this at least $250, it’s important to value the time, personal invest and risk that you’ve accounted for developing this module. In addition, by charging $250 you can support yourself to pursue future projects, build a brand around your products, and cover additional development costs for firmware updates and bug fixes. Anyway, that’s just my opinion. Feel free to message me back if you’d like to talk more of the business side of things!
If I were selling through distributors, I'd definitely agree. They'll typically mark up around 30%. Going directly through something like Kickstarter though will allow me to avoid that, with the addition of some logistics overhead. It's still something I'm considering, though!
Don't forget Kickstarter will come to 15% take, and you pay taxes too. Sell it for a comfortable margin, you can always lower the price later if you achieve economy of scale or find cheaper ways to make it. But the original will always be a collectible, like the NES.
Wow, this is incredible. As a programmer and musician, I couldn't even imagine taking this kind of project on. Not only that, but your chiptune compositions are incredibly moving, I hope to hear your work in future games!
@@KL-tn1xc I remember when Celeste first came out people said the OST reminded them of Disasterpiece. I never checked him out but became obsessed with Lena Raine's work on that soundtrack. Now that Fez is on Switch I'm really looking forward to playing it and hearing the OST.
For what you've described and what you're offering $150 is WAAAAAY to cheap (At least from the end consumer pricepoint). You've done a crazy amount of work. This thing is rad. Even a simple module, like a good quad vca runs ~$200. You're making cool stuff. If you want to sell it at a discount later you always can. I'd pay $250-$300 for something like this and still think it was a pretty good deal.
Yeah I've gotten a few suggestions along the same lines XD. While it would be satisfying to deliver something cool at a low price, I suppose I'll actually have to crunch the numbers soon to see what's actually sustainable for me.
as someone with not a whole lot of money, if you could hit your price goal that would be awesome, but charging more would be more then justified, amazing little device! start a kickstarter already :D
Things are definitely going well! The final design is coming together now. I've said it before in other comments, but I'll be making an update video soon!
I want one of these, badly. This is the module I've been dreaming of since I got into modular synths! You're literally the ONLY RU-vidr I've "hit that notification bell" for because I wanna know exactly when you give the word that we can pre-order and/or help fund this!
Congratulations on your realization of a sizable feat! This is a very encouraging quantity of inspiration to me. Go Field Programmable Gate Arrays!! THANK YOU for sharing all of your work, that’s really cool. I wish you a bright and gainful future!
I'm sold! This is my two favorite things in one lovely little module that I must have. I look forward to seeing a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign for this in the coming months (and hopefully the actual module in my rack later on as well, hehe).
Congrats on calling it ‘nes’ and actually staying true to the name. So many times I get anxious when I here 8-bit or nes is the name of stuff. You nailed it though.
I’ve been following since this was first announced and even messed with your language for a bit. I have an entire corner of my studio dedicated to synths made from vintage console / computer chips. I’m very much looking forward to adding this module to the mix. Such awesome work, keep it up!
I have to say, this is completely badass... i really like the idea of using FPGA to replicate vintage hardware, like the NES... and for the suggested $150-200, i'd be more than happy to own one.. the only request i've got is, make some type of desktop version as well for anyone that doesn't wanna have to go all in on a modular skiff just to use this little guy? would happily pay a few extra bucks to convert it into a desktop unit!
Yeah I actually started the project with a dual-purpose design in mind. The module in the video can actually be powered over USB or the eurorack bus. Unfortunately, this adds a moderate amount of cost and complexity, so I don't plan to keep this functionality in the final design. If it does well though, I'd love to do a special run of desktop-only modules. There's a lot of fun possibilities there.
@@CorvusPrudens thanks for following up... i know it's not your main focus, but i would absolutely be interested in a desktop module powered over usb. way to think ahead... this entire project is very cool! seems like a gateway to some very awesome fpga gear! cannot wait to see what you come up with next!
Wow, this is so inspiring! I've been very interested in doing something similar to this project lately. Crazy that you did all this yourself. Amazing work, and thanks for doing a video on it!
This could also be a gold mine for sound designers. $200 is an easy spend considering how many niche pedals are out there that go for much more. Great music! I felt like I was in Hyrule...
Hello! This video seems to be circulating rapidly. This would be an instabuy for me, this is what I've wanted to see in Euro for a long time. Also, your work on this is incredible - thank you for the excellent video on this. Really cool to see the process behind this, and I'm blown away by what you've put together.
A very well made and interesting video :) I'll check out your documentation for sure, if you make a video with more details a lot of us nerds will love it!
Brilliant piece of work. Even more impressive in that you did all that on your own without even a Kickstarter campaign to fund the development. For the record, I take one as soon as it becomes available. Take my money! Please?
Great work, i hope i can get one of these 100 modules. Let me know if they are ready. And i think you will design much more cool Eurorack stuff in future 👏
Not many Euro modules use FPGAs... hardcore stuff like the Xaoc Odessa, Intellijel Shapeshifter and Rainmaker. I'll be very impressed if you can sell these at your target price range! Good luck, we're all counting on you :D
Great stuff! You can probably charge much more for it, like $250-300 would be a typical price for a boutique eurorack voice like that. Curious what the CV inputs will do, I think that's critical for a eurorack module. Maybe there should be a way to maybe map cv inputs to various midi features that you have now.
Yes I'm in the process of developing the CV features now. I'll paste what I've written before again here: I think a good approach would be providing a number of different input modes to suit the needs of a given setup. For example, you might want a 4 voice setup with a gate and pitch input per voice. Or, maybe two voices with envelope, pitch, pulse width, and a bonus modulator. Unfortunately, since there's only 8 inputs, you couldn't really control all the voices at once -- at least for now. Maybe I could add an expander in the future.
I keep coming back to this video. Thanks for all your hard work in putting such a beautiful module together - from scratch, no less! I look forward to purchasing one, once they’re made available. Have you decided on a width for the production model? If I had to guess, it looks like 12 to 16 hp? Can’t wait to fire one up in my rack!
Aw thanks so much! As I've played with it more, I've been wanting to expand the I/O quite a bit. My current plan is to have 2 CV and 2 knobs per channel, meaning it would have 5 columns of inputs on the base module. That would put it at more like 20 to 24 HP. Obviously the size and cost is increased a bit, but I feel like the huge boost in playability and ease of use is worth it.
I found this video after developing some interest in building some eurorack DIY module kits. i'd love to plug a guitar into this thing. i know it's been over a year though and don't know if there was any plans put in place to distribute it. either way - what an amazing invention you have; i've been wanting to make a nintendo guitar for over a decade: it's encouraging to see that it's possible!
also - just in case you still want any further evidence of interest - LOOKMUM made a viddy pursuant of something similar and mentioned it as being "everyone's dream": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xd72kksv2zg.html
It's still in the developmental stage, but it's coming along. It's been a lot of work figuring out how it should fit within a typical eurorack setup, but I think I've finally gotten it to a point I'm satisfied with. Now it's just down to design refinements and waiting for my chips to be available 💀
@@CorvusPrudens ahhhh im so SO glad to hear it!! Let me go ahead and subscribe to your channel so I can stay plugged in and motivated to make music by way of any updates!
I'm down to buy one! Maybe try seeing how it works in conjunction with something like the NerdSeq module that is essentially a eurorack midi tracker like the software trackers chiptune creators use!
I will make space in my Eurorack for this. I applaud you for your hard work and discipline. I guarantee a well known synth company will offer you a job. **cough** @audiopotato. In the meantime... looking for my wallet.
In the future if you want to make it a little more refined there are FPGA IP resources that would let you basically drag and drop something like a RISC-V core into the design
Yes, while that is true, there are a couple problems with that for me. For one, they're often not free, and I don't exactly have a large budget. They're also typically made to be general, meaning using up more space than my very specialized processor. RISC-V is also typically 32-bit, and I believe the bare minimum number of registers is 16. If I were using a Xilinx FPGA, none of that would be a problem. However, with Lattice's Ice40 line, you really have to be conscious of resources. I'm not an expert, so maybe I'm wrong here, but I don't think an IP CPU would be a good fit for this project.
