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A four-voice analog synthesizer in black walnut and milled aluminium, made 120 at a time.

Reserve one

Batch 03 ships April 2027, €1,240

Walnut, aluminium, and keys

Both cheeks come from one board of black walnut, so the grain on the left runs on into the right.

A 1906 encyclopedia colour plate showing eighteen samples of wood grain, from pale ash to dark walnut.
Wood grain types, Nouveau Larousse illustré, 1906.

Oiled, never lacquered. One board per batch; re-oil once a year with the cloth in the box.

The top is milled from one billet of aluminium and anodised the colour of water over sand.

A microscope image of an anodised aluminium surface: a mesh of pale cell walls around dark pores.
Anodised aluminium under a microscope.

6061 aluminium, 4 mm at its thinnest. Every legend is engraved, so nothing wears off.

Hold a chord and the four voices drift a few cents apart, like fish that never quite swim in step.

Four silver fish swimming together under a rippling blue water surface, seen from below.
Four fish, one shoal. Seen from an aquarium tunnel.

Twenty-five light keys with aftertouch. Drift sets how far the voices wander, up to 25 cents.

What it does

Voices

Four complete voices, two oscillators each, nothing shared.

Shape

A ladder filter per voice and two of everything that moves it.

Play

A sequencer and enough sockets to run the rest of the studio.

Four complete analog voices: play chords of up to four notes.

In figures

4
voices, each with two oscillators and its own ladder filter.
25
keys, lightly weighted, with channel aftertouch.
0
menus. Every parameter has a knob of its own.
3.4 kg
in walnut and aluminium; 498 by 268 by 92 mm.
120
instruments in each batch. Batch 03 ships in April 2027.
White wavy traces on a black ground: the vibrations of tuning forks scratched into soot.
Tuning-fork vibrations recorded on soot-blackened glass. Every sound Shoal makes is a line like these.
Finish
Cheeks

Tidewater on walnut

Anodised the green-blue of water over sand at low tide. The colour is in the metal, not on it.

Reserve this one

Four voices
for €1,240

Includes the walnut cheeks, a USB-C cable, a printed manual and two years of repairs at the workshop. A €100 deposit holds your place in Batch 03 and comes back in full if you change your mind.

Or ask about the keyless rack version
Write to the workshop and we hold one from Batch 03 in the finish you chose. Reserve