Author: moshang

  • Mynah: Goldbaby collab!

    We have some exciting news: the Mynah will ship with a curated selection of sample packs from Goldbaby, and we’re super excited about it!

    In case you haven’t come across Goldbaby before, they’re a New Zealand-based sample library maker with a serious reputation in the music production world. Hugo at Goldbaby has been crafting meticulously recorded, hardware-sourced sample content for years, and the quality of work has earned them collaborations with Native Instruments, Elektron, Ableton, and Dave Smith Instruments, among others.

    What makes Goldbaby such a natural fit for the Mynah is the aesthetic overlap. Their packs lean into the character of real hardware (tape warmth, vintage drum machines, analogue texture) which sits perfectly alongside the Mynah’s lo-fi sensibility.


    Every Mynah kit will come with an SD card loaded with half of Goldbaby’s free pack catalogue, so you’ll have a solid library of quality sounds ready to go the moment you power up. No hunting around for decent samples to get started.

    A big thank you to Hugo at Goldbaby for being so generous!

    Please check out the full catalogue at goldbaby.co.nz – there’s plenty more where this came from.

  • Mynah: Factory mode! (Part 2)

    The final production push for the first 50 kits is underway – and it’s starting to feel very real.

    The whole family’s pitching in – here’s my wife, Emily, preparing enclosures: gluing in bezels, soldering in brass threaded-inserts, and more!

    Completed enclosures line up to be packed.

    And more wait to receive attention.

    In the meantime, all the PCBs have received their SMD parts.

    Ready to find their way into the hands of music maker around the world – we’re so excited!

  • Mynah: Per-Voice Features [Video]

    I’m nearing a version of the firmware that I wouldn’t be embarrassed to ship with the first kits. Luckily, easy over-the-web firmware updates means things are not set in stone, and I plan to be very responsive to bug reports and feature suggestions from the user community.

    With the per-voice features now just about done, I made a video to walk through the current capabilities.

  • Mynah: Factory mode!

    With most of the parts now in our hands, we’ve started packing kits and doing the SMD soldering of the ESP32 microcontrollers.

    Fifty ESP32s soldered, fifty tested and working A-OK! Next, the neopixel sticks on the other side of the PCB.

    In addition to applying final touches to the V1 firmware, we’re making things official by registering a business entity here in Taiwan dedicated to all things Groovesizer. The official company name needs to be in Chinese and we’re happy to report that we’ll be operating as MoShang Music Technology locally, and Groovesizer abroad.

  • Mynah: Build instructions are live!

    Parts for the first 50 kits are continuing to arrive and we are hard at work packing kits. To allow for a few more stragglers, we’ve adjusted out expected launch date to May 1st.

    Microcontrollers, battery holders, audio modules and more!

    In the meantime we’ve added complete build instructions. Head on over to https://groovesizer.com/build-it-mynah/ to see if you’re up for the challenge of soldering your own Mynah.

  • Mynah: First Production PCBs Are Here!

    Exciting times! The PCBs for the first limited run of 50 Mynah kits have arrived.

    Now it’s time to build one of these puppies and document the process for the build manual.

    50 Mynah PBCs in bubble wrap.

  • Steph Evo’s – Harmony (INTERACTIVE MUSIC PLANTS)

    A Theremon features prominently in Steph Evo’s installation Harmony (INTERACTIVE MUSIC PLANTS)

  • Red Bull Music Academy: Pocket Synths

    The Groovesizer RED gets a mention here: http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/05/production-in-your-pocket

  • SampleSimon – First look

    Here’s a first look at the SampleSimon, our first Eurorack module. A full feature list will come later, but in short it’s a 12-bit SD recorder, 6-voice sampler with a 64 step sequencer.

    In this vid, the SampleSimon is playing the 909 drums sounds and sending a gate signal out to a Moog Mother32 that plays the bass line. The Mother is sending an LFO back to the SampleSimon that modulates first the swing amount, and later the sequence step length.

    As this uses all SMD parts, we’ll be making this available as built units only.

  • Caduta Inversa – “Dolce Linfa”

    This awesome tune comes from MB user Andrea Cappetta, whose album A postcard from Betelgeuse is available on Bandcamp now.