OMG YES this is exciting news!
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Sort of! We have no plans to manufacture our own hardware at the moment. We started working on a Eurorack LION back in 2020 and had an excellent prototype ready before the world fell apart. Every time I think about resurrecting that, something else goes haywire and some part either is discontinued or skyrockets by 600% in price. A few of the contract manufacturers that we were talking to also closed operations. It’s way too unpredictable for my cortisol levels.
At the risk of spoiling a portion of the Week 3 announcement, the closest thing to Unfiltered hardware at the moment is the excellent 4ms Metamodule. All of my HetrickCV modules (along with my ports of the Nonlinear Circuits modules) are built into the factory firmware, and the Unfiltered VCV modules are available as free downloads on the Metamodules page (MetaModule | plugins).
I spent a lot of time trying to convince a certain company (that we have a close business relationship with) that we should put Battalion, lo-fi-af, Bass Mint, and Needlepoint onto their cool standalone production workstation, and that never went anywhere. I really tried there.
I emailed @johannes-dada the day after the TBD 16 was announced, so imagine my joy and relief when he not only emailed me less than 24 hours later–in the middle of a massive trade show, no less–to tell me all about the development process. Not only is it super easy, but the default factory firmware already has a perfect layout for my intentions. Anyway, no specific promises yet since I’ll have to do a lot of performance testing, but I’m extremely excited by this project and am greatly looking forward to the TBD’s release.
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I probably still need to get 1.000 hours of sleep back into my system. But without doubt we will do our best to get Unfiltered Audio on the tbd 16 right from the start. Take my word for this!
I am really excited for possible collaborations like this – as the rest of our team.
And I am not at the wrap up superbooth parties but trying to get some more machines working… to have some fun with my hardware tonight without all that noise around 
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Can you share which of the UA plugins are planned for TBD16 please?
Would love to see Silo and Tails as well as Battalion 
tbd 16 just went from being not on my radar to a potential must-have 
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The hardware will still only have one pattern, though… 
How’s week 2 coming along?
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Almost there! Writing the blog post and recording sound demos. It should go live later today or early tomorrow.
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thanks for BattleFX. 
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Glad to hear you found it, @ignatius! That was the most ridiculous soft launch ever. I guess free is a good price 
Okay here’s the official announcement for this week:
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Wow, thank you so much @trickyflemming — this is phenomenal.
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At least you get some live testing of the new check out and license process?
Thanks so much for this! Can’t wait to dig in…
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Pretty amazing 
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Are there plans for BattleFX on ios? 
Stay tuned for Week 3!
(Before anyone is disappointed, it’s not just iOS news)
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Siiiiiick thanks!
Amazing thank you!!
It sounds great, thanks so much (now focus on patterns and MIDI out! ). I don’t know if I’m being stupid or it’s a bug, but I can still hear the dry signal with the mix knob at 100%. Anyone else?
Also is there a way to completely disable the reverb or should I just turn down the input and output sliders for it?
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This is amazing!