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Mini update...

I've sold a small run of kits around me to see if people had trouble building the kit or if things went wrong. Everything went fine, owners are happy and have started making tunes with it: http://soundcloud.com/mutable-instrumen … 6-ignition

The first batch of 20 kits should be ready to ship next week. I've reserved 3 kits for the chipmusic posse (doing the same for other boards I'm hanging on too...) ; the rest of the kits will go on a "first come first served" basis. After that, another batch of 20 mid april ; and a batch of 10 or 20 or more for those who already have a CEM3379 around ; and I might stop here and focus on something with a more modern filter design (unless stocks of CEM3379s are uncovered).

Pricing:
http://mutable-instruments.net/order

Kit comes without a case, so if I'd rather see this go to people with cool building skills . Assembly is easy, but if you want to learn soldering, learn soldering on something mass-produced that can be purchased again if something goes wrong. Assembling instruction: http://mutable-instruments.net/shruti1/assembly
Post here and contact me by private message if you are interested in buying one of the 3 full kits I have reserved.

I would also like to know how many people here are interested in the CEM3379s-less kits, or by the bare PCBs, so I can reorder accordingly.

Thanks!

From Google Analytics, it seems that more than half of the people interested in the kit are in the US. The main distributors for most of the components (Digikey and Farnell for common parts + Sparkfun for the display) are in the US too, so it makes little sense to have stuff shipped to France (+ custom taxes) put in bags and sent back to the US (+ custom taxes). I don't think that at this small scale it's possible to have the custom taxes refunded just because everything is ultimately re-exported. There are electronic components distributors in France, but most of them end up being more expensive than directly ordering in the US.

I'm not making any profit on this (though I'd rather want to see the money I've invested on a small stock of parts come back ) and would really appreciate if something could be organized to keep the cost as low as possible.

Hi all,

We're really getting closer to the release of the first kits! As you have read on the blog the PCB design has been validated and a small number of units have been ordered. I've switched to a different PCB manufacturing company that is cheaper for larger volumes - I had no idea what their validation process was - so I have ordered only 5 units to check that all went well and that their output is correct. This means, if all goes well, 5 kits ready shortly after the end of the Chinese new year festivals (during which many factories are closed), and more to come soon after. I will spend some time over the weekend flashing the firmware on all the chips I have stocked and testing the CEM3379s. Indeed, I have secured a small stock of them from various sources, and have a clearer view on the supply for this chip - it's rare but not going to be extinct tomorrow.

An example with the cz-like filter (the filter modulation is directly applied during the waveform generation, it doesn't come from the CEM3379):
http://soundcloud.com/mutable-instruments/pure-digital