The first of the MEGA’s

After many years of development (and months of delays), the big moment is finally here. The beast is out in the wild!! Serial number #0001 goes to Tobias from www.10phantomrooms.com, who will for sure have big fun with the GR-MEGA for his software instrument building projects…..

Next week the a bunch more units will ship. We’ve already prepared most of the PCB’s. The firmware images are ready for mass production, including 128 sweet factory patches. The manual will follow in August most likely. It’s already quite large, but we’re trying to illustrate everything and add tutorials, which takes a lot of time.

When your unit is ready, we’ll contact you with a link for the final payment and where you can fill in your current postal address. For overseas shipping, or for countries with an unreliable postal service, we HIGHLY RECOMMEND CHOOSING EXPRESS SHIPPING. You can check the latest production time table here: GR-MEGA production time table

In the meantime: please enjoy the photos and the rest of the news:

Serial number 1 on the test bench:

Black MIDI stress testing!

The first front plates getting prepared:

Here are the next GR-MEGA units being prepared, already in their foam side caps.

The MEGA inner box:

It may not look like much, but this is an early port of the MEGA firmware to the GR-1. Polyphony will be more limited, and it will have less effects and no spectral mode. We cannot magically add audio inputs either, but it will be a huge update nevertheless!

The team on the only sunny day in Holland 2024, holding in their hands various iterations of the GR-MEGA.

To finish it off here’s the very first sketch of the GR-MEGA’s front plate and connectors from all those years ago. Dated January 2020. It’s been quite a ride.

That’s it for this newsletter. See you in the next one. Hopefully we’ll have some good news about the new Integral firmware.