We have set another exciting step on the road to Big Fish.
This is our multi-year project that should result in a beautiful synthesizer, keys and all. We envision four user layers: DSP programming, synth design, sound design and making music. This means you can be building the blocks, arranging the blocks, tweaking the blocks and making the blocks go beep. You can also ignore the layers above you and have a good time with the Big Fish in your studio or performing on stage.

BigFish is made for four levels of users:

1. Musicians – making music with Big Fish as it is
2. Sound designers – making sounds into BigFish presets
3. Synth designers – making new synths modular style
4. Programmers – making DSP to makes synths in BigFish

This project has been about 20 years in the making and started with Stijn making Goldfish, Platinumfish and Spacefish. His guilty pleasure synthesizer plug-ins in Jeskola Buzz. Big Fish also uses ideas from the Block system of modular software synths that Stijn built and used to teach Audio Design at university for many years. This Fish must be built again from the fins up but it has been a long time coming.

We hope to take about two years to get to a Golden Prototype. The plan right now is to have a Kickstarter (or equivalent) with our prototype for the first 100 Big Fish May 2027 and to use this as a go/no go for really setting up our production line

We have plans that needed a keybed with synth-sensibilities that we cannot buy anywhere so we are going to build this keybed ourselves, while also making this keybed available for other synth builders. We are making this new keybed together with Binkhorst Creations in our new Unit 11 factory and office space.

All this is going to take a while but we are well underway and a gentle estimate for the release of Big Fish might be in May 2027.

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