Morphor - About

History

Most of us work for our mother engineering company ENT Studios, which makes it possible to facilitate all the Morphor production and R&D in electronics and acoustics.

After the Analogue Plectrum (AP-1), we first made some utility modules like a mixer, buffered mult and a dual VCA to gain experience in the Eurorack product format in order to obtain a decent quality level. After gaining a lot of experience and finetuning our process, we are ready to provide the world with new unique modules.

Our latest product is the desktop synthesizer ECHON 6, a 6-voice analogue polyphonic multi-timbral BBD synthesizer and the first polyphonic instrument built around analogue BBD resonators.

Philosophy

Less is more

All our modules are designed around an intuitive user experience. Keeping a module focused on one function makes you think about it fundamentally, and that fosters creativity. You will not find hidden functionality or knobs with several behaviours. Options exist to enhance the instrument, never to layer a second concept on top of it.

Sustainability

Sustainability in the broadest sense is a fundamental and integral part of everything we do. We take great care while selecting components and suppliers and consider ecological aspects such as transport distance. This is why we also try to use our in-house skills to their full potential. You can learn more about this here. Our packaging is also completely paper-based.

We always aim to use high-quality components while designing and have spent a long time upgrading the overall build quality. When buying a Morphor product you can be sure they are built to last and won’t lose their magic for years to come.

Collaboration

We are continuously gathering feedback during our design process and incorporating ideas from people with all kinds of backgrounds. We are always open to new ideas so if you have any crazy ones, feel free to reach out to us on community.morphor.io.

Personality

We like to do things our own way. Analogue electronics especially still holds a lot of mysteries which we like to use to create our own unique flavour. We love BBD circuits for their imperfection, we love custom five-pole filter slopes and we love adding features that make people think. Synth modules are also more than just electronics, so we love personally connecting with our products. Before getting a Morphor module in your mailbox, you can be sure it extensively went through our own hands. We assemble and test them in a technical sense but also make sure they just feel right in a musical context.

In-house design and production

All of our modules go through final assembly, testing and quality assurance at our in-house laboratory in Belgium. All through-hole soldering is performed in our lab. With our tools we tune all modules by hand. Before shipping the modules we do a thorough technical quality check and use the module in our lab test rig.

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