Flexur is a standalone, immediate fun, expressive synthesizer.
Easy to pick up, hard to put down.
Two Trautonium inspired floating touch bars allow for continuous volume and pitch control. This expressive interface is paired with a streamlined knob per function synth, so you can start playing right away. Despite the constrained feature set, the sensitive bars allow for weeks, months, and years of rewarding practice.
Go as complex as you like
For experts who want to grow past the included synth, take control of your favorite analog synth with parallel dedicated CV outputs (pitch, gate, push, envelope), and digital synths with USB and TRS polyphonic expressive MIDI output.
Fundraise as of:
June 5: $15,115
Flexur T2 is a Trautonium inspired, standalone, immediate fun, high skill ceiling, expressive synthesizer.
It’s an instrument for playing emotional melodies.
This product is our main focus at Sound Workshop, we aim to ship in 6-24 months. In order to get to first customer ship, we are preselling up to 100 units to raise at least $75k. These funds will be used to cover one time expenses like manufacturing tools, test fixtures, consulting fees, and minimum order quantities.
Preorder customers receive:
$100 thank you discount
Lifetime access to our paid Patreon feed
2 year, white glove warranty
To date we have validated the technology with the functional prototype seen in our pictures and videos. We have made four units of this prototype and delighted over 100 early testers. Moving forward we will be repackaging the electronics into the production intent design seen in the computer renderings. We will build the first 100 units in house so that we can focus on quickly iterating through challenges and shipping to you without the added obstacles of bringing up a factory. Your contribution will help make an affordable Trautonium into a reality.
Specs (Subject to Change):
450×280×70mm
Two Floating Touch bars, 15mm semitone pitch, 23 semitones
Streamlined knob per function subtractive synth with interface optimized for expressive play
Preset, autotune, and mono/poly/arp settings
6×12 mod matrix with two routing pathways and dedicated intensity sliders
USB C connector for power and firmware updates
Generous IO to control analog and digital synths: Audio in/out, TRS MIDI in/out, USB C MIDI out, 2x expression/gate in, 4x CV out (pitch, gate, envelope, force). Full sized balanced instrument cable jack for conveniently plugging into mixers, guitar pedals, and amps.
Expectations:
Preorder customers will receive lifetime access to our paid Patreon content through a to-be-determined side channel. (Patreon does not allow us to gift a lifetime membership on their platform)
Shipping will take 6-24 months. We will send monthly backer updates on our progress, as well as post public YouTube videos going under the hood on our musical design and productization journey.
Thank you for helping to make expressive synthesizers more immediate, affordable, and portable. We hope that this will allow more people to play expressive, emotional melodies and get out there into their local music communities. Let’s go!