Category: Cutlasses Instruments

  • Sonic State interview

    I had a chat with Paulee from Sonic State talking about how I got into building my own instruments, and how GLOOP developed, have a read!

     

    https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/11/12/a-chat-with-cutlasses-makers-of-gloop/

  • Another update

    Gloop Firmware 1.2.0 is available now. We also have Gloops back in stock in our shop and kits available at Thonk. Get the Firmware here

    Change log

    Version 1.2.0

    Features:

    • Pan can now be a CV Target to allow pan control via CV
    • For text lists, such as CV Targets, which you scroll through with the encoder can now be reset to the first option by pressing the corresponding encoder
    • Separating mono and stereo effects. The ‘EFF’ option is now named ‘MEFF’ and only applies to the mono effects (delay and reverb) which can only be applied to a single channel (A or B). All other effects such as bit crush, tape saturation, are stereo, so apply to both channels.
    • Separate Tape Age ‘AGE’ into ‘HISS’ (tape hiss) and ‘AGE’ (random dropouts), moved ‘DEGR’ (loop degrade into the Effects 3 page).
    • Holding down the clear button for 2 second will clear the loop but not the state of the play heads (position, size, speed etc), you must hold for an additional 2 seconds (4 seconds total) to clear those). Previously holding for 2 seconds cleared the buffer and reset the playheads.

     

    Bug fixes:

    • Fixed issue where Audio In level was not respected when overdubbing

  • New Gloop Firmware 1.1.0

    Happy New Year and Happy New Firmware! I hope you all had a lovely holiday. I found some free time to work on a new Gloop firmware (V1.1.0), which you can find, along with an updated manual and instructions on how to flash the firmware, here https://github.com/cutlasses/GloopResources Thanks to those of you that sent me suggestions, some of them have made their way into this update!

     

    All the Gloop DIY kits have sold out, but more boards are currently winging their way to the UK as I type, so should be back in stock at Thonk soon. We still have a handful of built modules available at our shop https://www.cutlasses.co.uk/shop/ (currently shipping to UK and US, with EU coming soon) with a new batch planned for the near future.

     

    Thanks to all of you who have bought Gloop, and thanks to those that have let me know how much you are enjoying them. Please do share any music or videos you make with it, I get a real thrill seeing how people are using it, and it helps me to improve the firmware too!

     

    All the best for 2025!

     

    Firmware 1.1.0 change log

    Features:

    • Split tape effect into
      • Wobble (WOBB) – applies a wow and flutter off simulating a broken tape player
      • Saturation (SAT) – applies tape saturation
      • Age (AGE) – adds tape hiss and random drop outs
    • Added (equal power) panning per tape head (rather than A/B or A+B). Effects are still mono, so when panning tape heads you may want to disable effects. Old behaviour can still be achieved by having pan at 12 o’clock for A+B, and hard left, right for A/B
    • Added CRSF dial (Cross Fade) to “Effects B” menu. Previously all cross-fades were 5ms. You can now vary the length of the cross fade from 5 milliseconds to 1 second. This results in smoother blends when a loop restarts. If the playhead is forced outside of the loop section (for instance when using the JMP modulation, or moving the loop position), the quick cross fade of 5ms is still applied.

     

    Bug fixes:

    • Fixed issue with tape effect wobble, was previously being applied incorrectly and didn’t sound right!
    • Fixed an issue where, if you were modulating the position of the loop segment and this resulted in the play head being constantly restarted, the audio would sound distorted. This was because the playhead couldn’t cross fade quickly enough to the next position. Loop position modulation is now only applied every 50ms (20Hz). You can modulate at a faster rate, but it will be sub-sampled.
    • Improved gain application of gain pots and A/B input mix (now properly logarithmic)
    • Improved calibration menu

  • Gloop Released!

    Gloop was released on Friday! Currently available at Thonk. I’ll be building a small batch soon, so those who aren’t interested in wielding a soldering iron should join the mailing list here to find out when the first batch is available. Don’t worry if you miss out, if the first batch sells well I’ll be doing a bigger one next. It’s really nice to see something that was only intended for my own use to make its way into the world! I hope those who use it enjoy it as much as I do!

  • Gloop – Update

    Been a bit quiet on here recently, and barely played out live as all my free time has been dedicated to getting Gloop in a releasable state (the last 10% of a project really does take up 90% of the time!). For those interested in owning Gloop there will be exciting updates soon. Please join the mailing list if you want to know more about the plans for release.