{"product_id":"plinky-v3-pre-order","title":"MAKING SOUND MACHINES PLINKY V3","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"hide-headerlink\" id=\"polyphonic-touch-synthesizer\"\u003ePolyphonic touch synthesizer\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlinky is an 8 voice expressive polyphonic touch synthesizer that specializes in fragile, melancholic sounds, designed by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"mmalex on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmalex?lang=en\" rel=\"external noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003emmalex\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThink of it as an eight stringed instrument, with eight vertical monophonic strips. You can play it straight away on its 64 main pads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach of the eight strings has 4 oscillators or sampler grains, detuned by the touch of your fingers, white noise, two ADSR envelopes and a resonant 2-pole low-pass gate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlinky also has a global delay, reverb, high pass filter and saturation along with a simple mixer, arpeggiator, sequencer and sampler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt supports four external CV modulation sources, each with their own LFO.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlinky was released in 2021, then hit hard by the chip crisis. In coordination with Plinky’s creator mmalex, Making Sound Machines are bringing back Plinky both as assembled unit and as a beginner-friendly\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"DIY Kit build instructions\" href=\"https:\/\/makingsoundmachines.com\/plinky\/build\/\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eDIY Kit\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlinky v3 integrates TRS MIDI input and output directly on-board, so you sequence polyphonic chords externally and play a melodic line on top on its touch surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe revision also upgrades to USB-C, optimizes the build experience, and introduces improvements to the audio path.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest of all, Plinky is open source, with improvements and contributions from the Plinky community and PCB contributions from Making Sound Machines,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"This is Not Rocket Science\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisnotrocketscience.nl\/\" rel=\"external noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTiNRS\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Denki Oto Shop\" href=\"https:\/\/denki-oto.weebly.com\/#\/\" rel=\"external noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOkyeron\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"LPZW Leipzig West\" href=\"https:\/\/leipzigwest.org\/\" rel=\"external noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLPZW\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"1801\" height=\"1013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xh2w6RWPo28\" title=\"PLINKY Review \/\/ a charming portable granular and wavetable synth\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MAKING SOUND MACHINES","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47294608113837,"sku":null,"price":559.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0606\/3449\/7197\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-08-22T130302.852.png?v=1787418426","url":"https:\/\/www.detroitmodular.com\/products\/plinky-v3-pre-order","provider":"Detroit Modular","version":"1.0","type":"link"}