The Caladan pre-order is now open.
Find out much more about the capabilities of the machine over at its page on our website www.islainstruments.com/product/caladan/
Also, until tomorrow morning, you can use coupon code 'prosynth' at checkout to get an extra little bit off.
We've got it this far, now we need you to put your money where your mouth is to get this baby into production.
Whatta Ride!!!
<3
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Here we're just flicking through some of the presets that are currently installed in the Isla Instruments Caladan synthesizer.
This is the first fully built prototype machine so no UI just yet, patches are being changed by MIDI.
To find out more about Caladan, and get a coupon code for super early bird discount, be sure to join the whole Isla crew on the ProSynth Network podcast tomorrow afternoon, Friday, 29th Sep - 2PM EST.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lloJfGRPzAc
here's the link to that..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNO0CDRwNo
See you there!
Big Love
Brad
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For those that are interested, we're starting to upload stuff to our reverb store.
Geartrader has had to take a backseat for now, too many pies, not enough fingers, etc.
Going to stick to what we're good at for now (making cool shit).
If there's something you know I had, that you want, let me know and I'll get it listed.
Rack gear, synths, samplers, service manuals, synth accessories, you name it, I probably have it.
There's way over 1000 pieces to get listed.
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Well, you can come hang out with Mickey, Ken Flux & Myself as we divulge more info on the Caladan and S2400 DSP module.
We 'MIGHT' even open up for early bird pre-orders....
THIS FRIDAY! at 2pm EST
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MONUMENTUS!
What you're seeing here, is the Caladan prototype hardware communicating through its debug serial port, sending messages showing all of its hardware sub-systems coming online as it boots up.
Over the past few days, Vlad @av500 has been working tirelessly to build the framework code for the Caladan synthesizer hardware.
Pots, switches, OLED displays, CV/Gates, RGB Led Rings, Audio Codecs, USB host/device , MIDI, SD card, Synth expansion card bus have all now come online.
Not gonna lie, There are several surgical procedures that I have to make to the other 4 machines to bring them to life, but these are all changes that will of course be baked into the next prototype.
The main takeaway here is that there have been no show stoppers!
Next we will start fleshing out the APIs and move onto getting the soundfont playback engine up and running. Then Mickey takes the driving seat and works on the UI aspects.
Developing prototypes of 3 products simultaneously (Filter card, DSP card, Caladan) was, in hindsight, perhaps too much for me to take on and has been pretty stressful and extremely expensive. So my apologies for things taking longer.
Within the next week or so, I'll be opening up the Caladan and the DSP board for early bird pre-orders. This will get you a healthy discount for supporting us, and us some cash coming in to get into production and pay down our development expenses.
Thanks to everyone for your enthusiasm and support and for taking an interest in the birthing process of new gear!
It's so much fun to be open and sharing all the behind the scenes stuff, even if it is mundane at times!
A massive shout out to the amazing and patient dev team @av500 , @delptronics , @supul_n & Niki
Big Love!
Brad ❤️
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