Thirty-eight software synthesizers, each modeled on a hardware instrument from before about 2000, with modern extras beside the classic controls. They run on a Raspberry Pi.

Thirty-eight white keys, one for each instrument.

A dark control page with sliders and switches grouped into arpeggiator, voices, oscillator, envelope and filter panels
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Shape sounds from a browser

Each instrument has a web page with all of its controls. Open it on a computer or tablet on your network, adjust a sound, and save it as a patch.

You can also control it from a terminal over SSH, or leave it running without a screen.

The collection covers analog polysynths and monosynths, patchable semi-modulars, string ensembles, a vocoder, a phase-distortion digital synth, a tonewheel organ and classic electric keyboards.

A keyboard controller with blue screens naming the parameter under each knob, such as Filter Cutoff
A MIDI controller showing the parameter and value under each knob.

Play it with real keys and knobs

Connect a USB audio interface and a USB MIDI controller, and play. Knobs can be assigned to any parameter, and one supported controller also shows each knob’s name and value on its own screen.

Where it runs

Raspberry Pi 3B

All thirty-eight live in one program, one playing at a time. It can start at boot, ready to play. It needs a 64-bit operating system.

Linux and Mac

The same programs build for Linux, and for Mac computers with Apple silicon.

Your music software

Each instrument is also a plugin: CLAP and VST3, plus Audio Unit on a Mac.

Get mini-800

Download a release for Linux or an Apple silicon Mac, or build it from source. The code, instructions and issue tracker are on Forgejo.

Download a release View the project on Forgejo