The Workshop Computer is part of the Music Thing Workshop System. This site provides access to all the available program cards, their documentation, and downloadable firmware files (.uf2). On Chrome and some other browsers, cards can be programmed directly from this site.
Simple MIDI
Takes USB midi, sends it to pulse and CV outputs, also sends knob positions and CV inputs back to the computer as CC values.
Coming Soon
Reserved for upcoming project
Turing Machine
Turing Machine with tap tempo clock, 2 x pulse outputs, 4 x CV outputs
BYO Benjolin
Rungler, Chaotic VCO, Noise Source, Turing Machine, Quantizer
Chord Blimey!
Generates CV/Pulse arpeggios
USB Audio & MIDI
6-Channel USB Audio & MIDI firmware with CV/Gate support
Bumpers
'Bouncing ball' style delay and trigger generators
Bytebeat
Generates and mangles bytebeats
DivCom
Comparator and VC clock divider, inspired by Serge NCOM
Twists
A port of Mutable Instruments Braids with a web editor
Goldfish
Weird delay/looper for audio and CV
AM Coupler
AM radio transmitter / coupler
Noisebox
13-algorithm noise synth with CV modulation, sample-and-hold, and crusher mode
CVMod
Quad CV delay inspired by Make Noise Multimod
MLRws
A remix of monome's classic MLR sample cutting platform (grid controller encouraged but optional). Diagrams here are for Gridless mode.
The Bells
Bellringing methods sequencer — 12 change-ringing methods with tempo and jitter, quantised to six scales
Chord Organ ish
Chord Organ-ish - 16 chords, 8 voices, 1V/oct root. Inspired by Music Thing Chord Organ.
Reverb+
Reverb effect, plus pulse/CV generators and MIDI-to-CV, configurable using web interface.
Resonator
Karplus-Strong sympathetic resonator for droning and plucked textures, with chord & tanpura tunings, arpeggiator, pitch tracking and web-configurable CV/pulse outputs.
Sheep
A time-stretching and pitch-shifting granular processor and digital degradation playground with 2 fidelity options.
SlowMod
Chaotic quad-LFO with VCAs
Crafted Volts
Manually set control voltages (CV) with the input knobs and switch. It also attenuverts (attenuates and inverts) incoming voltages.
Utility Pair
25 small utilities, which can be combined in pairs
Clockwork
6-channel polyrhythmic clock, gate, and LFO/envelope generator inspired by Pamela's Workout.
Siren
Multi-algorithm drone oscillator. Inspired by the Forge TME Vhikk X.
Eighties Bass
Bass-oriented complete monosynth voice consisting of five detuned saw wave oscillators with mixable white noise and adjustable resonant filter.
Cirpy Wavetable
Wavetable oscillator that using wavetables from Plaits, Braids, and Microwave,
ESP
A MS-20-style External Signal Processor that includes a preamp, bandpass filter, envelope follower, gate, and 1v/oct pitch outs.
Vink
Dual delay loops with sigmoid saturation for Jaap Vink / Roland Kayn style feedback patching
drumdrum
DFAM-style 8-step sequencer
DualQuant
Dual quantised granular pitch shifter with calibrated 1V/oct CV outputs
FreqShift
Dual Input Frequency Shifter for Feedback Experimentation
GradualProcess
Three generative composition processes (Glass, Reich, Tintinnabuli) in one card, chosen by Main's position at power-on
Compulidean
Generative Euclidean drum + sample player.
Od
Loopable chaotic Lorenz attractor trajectories and zero-crossings as CV and pulses, with sensitivity to initial conditions.
Knots
Six-engine oscillator firmware for the Music Thing Workshop System
Blackbird
A scriptable, live-codable, USB-serial-to-CV device implementing monome crow's protocol
Backyard Rain
Nature soundscape audio. A cozy rain ambience mix for background listening. You control the intensity. This card plays rain ambience which was recorded in my backyard.
Castle Process
Fort Processor-inspired harsh noise processor with chopped external audio and a bass pulse voice
Clockwork
6-channel polyrhythmic clock, gate, and LFO/envelope generator inspired by Pamela's Workout.
Birds
Two birds sing to each other controlled by a Turing-style shift register sequencer with clock in and CV/pulse out.
NZT
Grain Noise and Noise Tools
Flux
Effects, Synthesizer and Utility
Grains
Granular Sampler and Effect
Glitter
Granular Looping Sampler
Tapegrade
Mono-input stereo cassette warble processor with wow, flutter, hiss, crackle, and tape wear morphing.
Fifths
A quantizer/sequencer that can create harmony and nimbly traverse the circle of fifths in attempts to make jazz
Krell
Krell
Glitch
Clock-synced beat-repeater with ratcheting, reversal and audio degradation
LoCho Vibes
Stereo chorus and vibrato effect featuring triangle, sine, and slow drift LFO modes, modulation-based delay movement, and tape-style saturation.
BitPhase
Resonant 4-stage phaser for the Workshop Computer with deep notch filtering, wide modulation sweeps, controllable resonance, tremolo blending, and digital Burst-mode degradation.
Markov
Dual generative Markov chain module — evolving melody (MarkoV) left side, rhythmic percussion patterns (MarkovPerc) right side, with internal synth voice
Voices of SID
Dual MOS 6581 SID emulation (reSID engine) with CV/gate control, stereo output, waveform selection, and randomize
Stretchcore
A card for playing and manipulating samples with tempo control, timestretch with browser-based audio loading (infinitedigits.com/stretchcore/)
Trace
Oscillograph stereo oscillator
Degenerator
Degenerator — Disintegrating Looper. Capture audio loops and apply irreversible degradation with 6 algorithms (Saturation, Filter Drift, Tape Hiss, Oxide Shedding, Bit Crush, Bit Rot) via preview/apply workflow. Inspired by William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops.
Motorik
Motorik drum machine — kick/snare/hihat with bass and melody CV, classic Krautrock grooves
Wild Pebble
MIDI-clockable generative rhythm and melody organism inspired by Pet Rock
Hot Fuzz
A stereo fuzz/distortion + resonant wah effects processor with manual and auto-wah modes, built on fixed-point DSP.
Placeholder
Reserved for secret project
Talker
Proof of concept speech synthesizer, based on TalkiePCM, inspired by 1970s LPC speech synths.
West Coast LPG
Dual vactrol-emulating low-pass gate (combined VCA + low-pass filter) with fast-attack/slow-decay 'plong', self-pinging percussion, and per-channel VCA/VCF/LPG modes.
Computer Grids
Grids-inspired trigger sequencer with Web MIDI SysEx configuration.
Origami
Dual oversampled wavefolder — triangle / sine / hard-clip folding with bias (even-harmonic) control and CV over fold depth, band-limited via 4x oversampling.
Cosmik C1ZZL3
Stable phase-distortion synthesiser and Turing machine firmware with Web MIDI envelope readback, PD, detune, eight waveform families, hosted CZ patch import, USB MIDI device/host operation, and optional Turing MIDI output.
Tesserae
Tesserae — Variable-voice (2-8) arpeggiated chord generator with 5 patterns, 10 scales, tap tempo, CV/audio transpose inputs, and dual CV + audio pitch outputs. Inspired by Laurie Spiegel's Music Mouse and Patchwork.
Fr330hfr33
Hardware-tested acid bass synthesiser with selectable saw or square oscillator, switchable 18 or 24 dB diode-style filtering, accent and glide, distortion, USB MIDI device/host operation, and a persistent editable sequencer.
Blank
Reserved for blank 88 cards
Pantograph
Trace and record CV — record knob movements, loop them at bipolar speed
Chorgan
Chorgan — 6-voice chord synthesizer with morphing timbre, chord extension presets, and built-in chord sequencer. Two modes: normal (detune/chorus) and slew (portamento chord changes). Inspired by the Music Thing Modular Chord Organ.
Turing Matrix
Turing Machine sequencer with a switchable mixer layer inspired by the Music Thing Modular Turing Machine and Vactrol Mix combination
OffAir
OffAir — AM/Shortwave/Longwave radio simulator. Tune between two Stations and interference with authentic heterodyne whistles, SSB pitch-shift detuning, AM envelope detection, swelling per-band static, and triggerable Insta-ference one-shots. Baked recordings or live audio inputs become the Stations.
Cathode Ray
Composite video synthesiser (PAL + NTSC builds) — oscilloscope, etch-a-sketch & spectrum analyser, greyscale via dithering, performance effects, 8 alt-boot screensaver/game modes
Duo MIDI
A duophonic midi device/host interface
Toolbox
Mixer, VCA, noise, S&H, clock generator, etc.