Synthux AcademyDIY platforms
Daisy Seed touch instrument with swappable faceplates, one board for many firmwares
Touch 2, developed under the name Simple Touch, is a touch-controlled instrument from Synthux Academy built around an Electrosmith Daisy Seed. It has 12 touch pads, six trim knobs, two faders, two switches, a stereo input and a stereo output, and comes with swappable faceplates (one of them blank) that match the official firmwares. Synthux sells it assembled and as a DIY kit.
The instrument is the Daisy Seed plus a fixed control layout, so firmware simply replaces the application on the Seed and each firmware chooses what the pads (P00 to P11), knobs and faders (S30 to S37) and switches do. The official firmwares can be flashed from Synthux's web uploader, which pulls the GitHub releases and uses WebUSB in a Chromium-based browser. The Daisy Web Programmer (flash.daisy.audio) or dfu-util with a .bin file also work. Put the Seed into DFU mode by holding BOOT and tapping RESET. Larger firmwares such as TouchPlaited run from QSPI flash and need the Daisy bootloader installed on the Seed first. Synthux's store page warns against connecting Eurorack-level signals to the inputs without attenuation. Other Daisy Seed firmware builds for the same pin layout can run here, but only those that name the Touch are listed in this catalog.
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Port of the Audrey II feedback horrorscape synth to the Touch 2: a Karplus-Strong feedback loop excited from the pads or external audio, with an official faceplate and MIDI CC map.
by Nick Donaldson, Alberto Berera, Rosa Schuurmans, Vladislav Litvinenko (bleeptools)
Dual-delay and reverb workstation for the Touch 2 with 27 effect zones, three routing modes, 12 performance pads, tap tempo and class-compliant USB MIDI.
Self-evolving sound ecosystem for the Touch 2 where each pad plants an organism that is born, ages, feeds, is hunted and leaves mutated descendants.
| Version | Date |
|---|---|
| V1 | undated |
Layered stereo looper for the Touch 2 that irreversibly degrades the recorded material, after William Basinski's Disintegration Loops; a port of the Workshop Computer card.
by Joep Vermaat
| Version | Date |
|---|---|
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 |
Work-in-progress Synthux firmware for the Touch 2 that plays loops from the pads, with reverse and random modes, pitch, start and grain randomisation, loop size and start controls.
Official polyphonic subtractive synth for the Touch 2 with two oscillators, filter, arpeggiator with Euclidean patterns, reverb and a MIDI CC map.
by Vladislav Litvinenko (bleeptools), Synthux Academy
Official effects processor for the Touch 2: modulated delay, reverb, three drive and three bit-crush zones switched from the pads, with per-effect bypass.
| Version | Date |
|---|---|
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-01 |
USB-MIDI controller firmware for the Touch 2 that sends note, per-pad pressure, poly and channel aftertouch, and knob, fader and switch CCs, with host templates.
Firmware for the Touch 2 based on Mutable Instruments Plaits: all 24 Plaits models as a touch synth with arpeggiator and recorder, plus a 16-step generative drum sequencer, MIDI and optional OLED.
Official polyphonic physical-modelling string synth for the Touch 2 with pluck and bow excitation, velocity-sensitive pads, an arpeggiator and seven scales.
by Vincent Maurer, Rosa Schuurmans, Vladislav Litvinenko (bleeptools)
Self-regulating feedback instrument for the Touch 2 after Jaap Vink's tape, ring-mod and reverb patches, played from the pads with a web manual that mirrors the panel.
| Version | Date |
|---|---|
| v0.2.0 | 2026-09-29 |
Seven-voice generative percussion instrument for the Touch 2 with synthesised drums, a Euclidean rhythm engine, three scenes, sidechain master chain and USB MIDI clock sync.
| Version | Date |
|---|---|
| V1 | undated |
Karplus-Strong thumb-piano instrument for the Touch 2 with nine kalimba-style tines, eight voices, twelve scales and a three-layer audio looper.
Synthux's original repository of Touch instruments: DaisyDuino sketches for TouchBass, TouchString, TouchFX, a drone, drum machine, looper and slicer, plus libDaisy C++ projects including Audrey Touch.
by Synthux Academy, Vladislav Litvinenko (bleeptools), Rosa Schuurmans, Jon Waterschoot
Jon Waterschoot's collection of Plugdata (Pure Data) patches and ready-to-flash binaries for the Touch 2 and Simple Fix, including FM BleepBloop, Selfdistort Touch and Frequencyshift Touch.
Synthux's firmware that turns the Touch 2 into a USB MIDI controller; the mapping is set in config.h.
by Vladislav Litvinenko (bleeptools), Synthux Academy