{"id":153503,"date":"2026-05-18T19:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=153503"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:09:06","slug":"new-amyboard-offers-open-source-synth-platform-for-under-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/05\/18\/new-amyboard-offers-open-source-synth-platform-for-under-30\/","title":{"rendered":"New AMYboard Offers Open Source Synth Platform For Under $30"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AMYboard - the $29 DIY modular synth running Python.\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SZ3yKhryL2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Developer <strong>Brian Whitman<\/strong> has <a href=\"https:\/\/variogram.com\/2026\/05\/18\/amyboard\/\">introduced<\/a> the <strong>AMYboard<\/strong>, a 10HP Eurorack-compatible synthesizer that lets you load a variety of synths, with digital and analog audio, MIDI, and two CV channels.<\/p>\n<p>The AMYboard firmware runs Micropython, and can be controlled and programmed from your Web browser. You can also use AMYboard in Arduino to create music devices of your own design.<\/p>\n<p>It can act as a sampler, play WAV files, or let you make your own synthesizer setups in code from bare oscillators, effects, and filters. AMY is open-source and runs on all sorts of hardware. The AMY platform already powers synths like the Diapasonix, the Spark, and the Tulip Creative Computer.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>AMYboard is intended as a \u201creference hardware\u201d for AMY &#8211; running the same ESP32-S3 as Tulip with 8MB of RAM, but with new features including both analog and S\/PDIF (digital) audio input and output, enabling live effects, sampling, and filters. There&#8217;s also an SD card for sample storage, and an I2C host port for connecting your own displays and knobs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing and Availability:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AMYboard<\/strong> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amyboard.com\/\">available<\/a> now for $29.90 USD. It can be powered over USB or a 10-pin modular power cable, and comes with a 10HP laser-cut faceplate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AMYboard is a 10HP Eurorack-compatible synthesizer that lets you load a variety of synths, with digital and analog audio, MIDI, and two CV channels.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/05\/18\/new-amyboard-offers-open-source-synth-platform-for-under-30\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New AMYboard Offers Open Source Synth Platform For Under $30<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23766,25],"tags":[36322,851,332,1776,11606],"class_list":["post-153503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modular-synthesizers-electronic-music-gear","category-synthesizers","tag-amyboard","tag-eurorack","tag-modular-synthesizers","tag-open-source","tag-open-source-hardware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/amyboard-9.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153506,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153503\/revisions\/153506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}