PEEPS, A New Axoloti Based DIY Synthesizer With A Lovely Vintage Look

July 4, 2019 Synth Anatomy DIY, Hardware, News, Synthesizers 0

S8JFOU, a music producer and YouTuber has created in the past month a lovely looking handmade Synthesizer with a vintage look. It is called PEEPS and is small, but it can do a lot. It’s based on an Axoloti core which is a hardware modular synth (around 65€) with his own Axoloti Patcher. With the latter, the user can design own Synthesizer patches like on the Nord G-series modular Synthesizers.

PEEPS is 4-voice polyphonic with three oscillators per voice, a 2-pole lowpass filter, and an LFO. These voices are supported by a Mutable Instruments Braids FM based oscillator which is doing drone sounds also with a lowpass filter. To refine the sounds, the synth comes with a built-in tape delay and reverb. The virtual analog block is routed in both effects, the FM block only in the reverb. Both effects can be used also as an effect processor with the built-in external audio input.

To control the sound, PEEPS has 15 built-in knobs and a 13-keys keyboard with an arpeggiator. Very smart is the fact that you can power it also with a portable battery. In total. a cute looking little Synthesizer that shows nicely how versatile you can use the 65€ Axioloti core. Here are all the features.

Features

Axoloti core
4 voices polyphony
3 oscillators on each voices
2 voices are detunable
2 pole lowpass filter
tape delay with time, feedback and mix
reverb with time and mix
LFO
Mutable Instruments Braids FM based oscillator doing drone + 2 pole lowpass filter, pitch and volume
MI voice doesn’t go through the tape delay, only through the reverb
Keyboard with 13 keys with arpeggiator, octave switch and sustain
The arpeggiator can be sync via MIDI In / Gate in + accept Eurorack clock in
USB host for an external controller
Battery powered with an external battery
The clock input can be used as an external audio input + access to the tape delay & reverb
Audio output 6,35 mm and headphones stereo 3.5 mm