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You may have noticed that GLOOP is currently out of stock worldwide. Hopefully kits will be arriving at Thonk next month. Built modules will take a while longer. We are still waiting on some parts to arrive. The good news is, once they are here we should have enough stock to see us through for the foreseeable future. Thanks for your patience. As always, if you want to be the first to hear when they are back in stock, join our mailing list.

GLOOP is back in stock, get them whilst they’re hot! https://www.cutlasses.co.uk/product/gloop/

 For customers in the US, Perfect Circuit will be receiving a new batch in a week or so.

Please remember that orders shipped outside the UK may be subject to VAT, customs duties, and/or import fees upon delivery. These charges are determined by your local authorities and are outside of our control.

Apologies again for the delay in getting these ready. Apart from making improvements to the circuit, which took longer than expected, we suffered multiple difficulties getting hold of components. This should be improved for subsequent builds.

With future batches we plan to find other resellers in Europe. Thanks to our customers who have made suggestions on stores in their region.

Thanks to those that came to the workshop we did last Saturday with Thonk and Synth Shed. I really enjoyed it. Everyone seemed to have fun, and all went home with a shiny new GLOOP that they’d built themselves. Employed a desoldering technique I’ve not used before incorporating 4 soldering irons to remove a wrong oriented switch!

I’m in Bristol this weekend for Machina Bristronica. I’ll be wearing my GLOOP T-shirt, so come and say hello if you see me. For this weekend only I’m doing a very special 20% off discount. Just use the code MACHINA. I’ve never offered discounts before, any probably won’t again for a long time, so if you’ve been thinking about getting one, now is absolutely the time! I’m not exhibiting at Machina and will be attending as a punter so this is my little way of getting in on the action!

Just got back from Berlin after attending Superbooth 2025, a synth exhibition with a real festival vibe. I haven’t been since 2017, and I reckon it’s probably twice the size it was back then. The marquees and bungalows outside were a great addition. Gloop didn’t have a stand, but I had a Gloop t-shirt, and some people were kind enough to come and tell me how much they were enjoying the module, which made my day. Had lots of lovely chats with other makers, and everyone was incredibly open and friendly. I even managed to get along to the Berlin Parkrun in Hasenheide. I’ve left inspired, and have taken a couple of days off from my normal job to work on Gloop related projects. Expect new firmware soon!

Hello from Electromagnetic Field Festival (EMF Camp)! Having an awesome time. Slightly different vibe now we have a little one, but the festivals caters so well for families, it’s really lovely. Thanks to everyone who came to my talk. I think the video will be available soon. But here are the slides for now.

Come watch me play live, tomorrow (Sunday 5th June), at 10pm on Stage B.

I’m delighted to say I’m going to be at Electromagnetic Field Festival next month (2nd-5th June). I’ll be doing a talk on building digital effects, and also playing the Main Stage at 10pm on the Sunday. I’ll be showing off some of my latest projects, DaisyDrone and Gloop.

Both DaisyDrone and Gloop are projects built around the Electrosmith Daisy Seed. It’s a compact dev board, similar to Teensy, but with high quality audio built in. It also has an enormous 64MB or RAM on board. More than enough for most audio projects I can conceive.

DaisyDrone is a drone synth, with 6 sliders, Inspired by @hainbach101 ‘s use of vintage oscillators and test equipment. This combines 18 sine waves. Each slider controls the gain of a set of 3 sine waves at slightly offset pitches centred around a frequency within the key shown in the display. The frequency of the sines increases from left to right. The magic comes from the way they are summed (controlled by the 3-way switch). Either averaged (boring!), or wavefolded with a sine wave or a triangle wave. The wave folding produces the rhythmic elements. An encoder is used to set the note of the base frequency, displayed in the 7 segment display.

 

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Gloop is a looper which is RAM based rather than my previous SD card based looper. This gives a lot more flexibility to glitch up the audio, as you can jump around in the stream a lot more. It takes inspiration from the GlitchDelay. Once a loop is recorded (overdub is supported), you have 4 read heads that can play from it simultaneously. Each read head supports forward and reverse play, varying speeds (which can be quantised to semi-tones), and the ability to have micro loops which jitter within the main loop.

Really enjoyed our performance at the beginning of the month at The Rose Hill in Brighton. Thanks to all those that came out to see us, and an extra special thanks to the sound person (Abe), not only for giving us great sound, but for reminding me to actually start the cameras that I had setup! Had to make a quick stage exit and turn them on! Not sure when our next performance will be, but not too long hopefully.

Amy and I will be playing as RAVINE/MACHINE again on the 4th December at The Rose Hill in Brighton. We have support from R.Dyer and I AM FYA. I think it’s going to be a great night, and a great way to start the festive season. Come along, there will be mince pies! Tickets available here.

Well, the gig at Spirt of Gravity on Thursday was a lot of fun. It was our first performance as RAVINE/MACHINE and despite the trip hazards, allergy poisonings and misbehaving laptops, the end result was great. I definitely want to play more gigs in this format. I’ve wanted to work with a visual artist for a long time and Amy is the perfect match. Her beautiful photography, which forms the basis of her projections are wonderfully augmented by her intricate and unusual manual projections. It’s really inspiring to accompany them with my sound. We are organising more gigs now (Brighton and London), so watch this space. If you want us to play please get in touch.

I have my first performance on Thursday playing as RAVINE/MACHINE, a collaboration with experimental film-maker, Dr Amy Cutler. Expect analogue projections powered by candles and carousels, accompanied by haunting textures from my DIY drone box. We’ve been discussing this project online for over a year, but due to current circumstances only got to collaborate in person in recent days. Be lovely to see some of you there.