Macchiato Mini Synth DIY Kit

$52.00

The Macchiato Mini Synth is a fun, great-sounding, easy-to-use digital synthesizer that fits in the palm of your hand. Build it yourself from a fun and easy kit – soldering required. You can make your own shiny black acrylic cabinet with our cabinet kit.

Requires 9V DC power. Use a battery (not included) or pick up a plug-in power supply.

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Description

The Macchiato Mini Synth is a versatile little 8-bit synthesizer you can build and mod yourself. It features a built-in 13-note capacitive-touch keyboard with 2-note polyphony, MIDI IN, and eight control knobs for shaping your sound.

The synth kit can be completed in an evening. It’s an easy build, suitable for ages as young as 13 (with supervision).

MACCHIATO FEATURES

  • Capacitive Touch Keyboard, 13 keys, 2-note polyphony
  • MIDI IN to control your Macchiato with any MIDI device:
    • Responds to Pitch Bend, Modulation, Velocity, Volume and Portamento
    • Selectable MIDI Receive Channel
  • Wave Shape Select: Sine, Triangle, Saw, Square
  • 4-Octave Shift: C2-C3 through C5-C6
  • Adjustable Attack & Release
  • LFO Shape Select: Sine, Saw, Ramp, Square
  • Adjustable LFO Rate, Depth and Cutoff Frequency
  • Volume Control
  • LED Power Indicator
  • 1″ On-board Speaker
  • Audio Out — accepts 3.5mm (1/8”) TRS  or TRRS male jack
  • ISP Header for PC connection (to upload software updates/mods)
  • Requires 9V DC power from battery or center-negative wall adaptor

CABINET OPTIONS

Your kit comes with a template you can use to make your own cabinet from card stock or a cereal box. Optionally, you can order a shiny black acrylic cabinet kit.  Finally, with some ingenuity, you could make your own cabinet or chassis, install the synth and apply the groovy Macchiato labels.

INTERNAL SOFTWARE

The Macchiato Mini-Synth incorporates the Mozzi Sound Synthesis Library for Arduino by Tim Barrass, and is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution / Non-Commercial / Share alike License.. The Macchiato code was written in the Arduino environment and is available open-source bundled with the free ZDL Updater App for PC.

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What You Will Need

Here’s everything you will need to build The Macchiato Mini Synth kit. *These tools are available from this site. Follow the link! To make your own cabinet using the provided template, you will need the following:
  • Card Stock from Zeppelin Design Labs, or from a craft store; or a Cereal Box
  • Steel Ruler or Straight edge
  • X-Acto knife or other sharp hobby knife
  • Several push pins or thumbtacks
  • Scissors
  • Butter knife
  • A few small binder clips or large paper clips
  • Rubber cement
To build the plastic cabinet kit, you will need the following:
  • X-Acto knife or other sharp hobby knife
  • Steel straight edge
  • Scissors
  • Some medium and fine sandpapers (180, 240 and 320 grit)
  • Plastic cement
  • Super Glue
  • A few binder clips

Documentation

  • Detailed instructions for assembling the synth kit, making a cardstock cabinet, or building the plastic cabinet kit
Download Cardstock Cabinet Template (264kb PDF).
  • Your Macchiato includes this template, but if you need another, here it is. Requires 11x17 printer!
  • Get playing fast!
  • Detailed reference material explaining every control
SOFTWARE
Your Macchiato comes loaded with the latest software, version 1.2.2 (November 2018). This software also comes bundled inside the incredibly simple Updater App. Use the app to refresh corrupted software. On the App page, on the What You Will Need tab, you will find the source code if you wish to examine it.

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