SinTH2 - answers to your questions (subtitles on, please))

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0:022 secondsGood morning. Hello everyone. Tom Horn, that is Tomasz Rożek. Greeting you from my

0:077 secondsmodest little studio. As you can see, behind me are two finished instruments. This

0:1313 secondsis the folding panel version, as you already know, the fixed panel version, and the third version, which is behind me, which is still being built. The enclosure, as you can see, is

0:2323 secondsalready finished, but this is the desktop version. I think it's a really nice one. It will be finished in about two weeks. And that's exactly what I wanted to

0:3131 secondstalk to you about, to tell you how things look at the moment, because I'm getting a lot of questions, a lot of emails and messages about when you'll be able to order

0:4040 secondsthis instrument, and what this process looks like right now. So before I get into that, I wanted to thank you first of all for the

0:4848 secondsinterest in this instrument, for writing to me, for commenting. That means a lot to me, because I can see that this project makes sense. It all started

0:5858 secondswith this instrument, which was meant to be my concert one and my private one. And it's growing, and that's great. To be honest, when I

1:061 minute, 6 secondswas building this instrument at the very beginning, I didn't assume it would become some kind of instrument production, and I still don't assume that. This won't be

1:131 minute, 13 secondsinstrument production; it will be a way to order one for yourself. But let's get back to that ordering possibility, because I mentioned earlier that

1:201 minute, 20 secondsbuilding an instrument like this takes me, at this point, when everything is ready and thought through, when there are templates, when I already know how the electronics look,

1:291 minute, 29 secondsabout two to three weeks. That won't happen in two or three weeks — I already know that now. And that's because for the most part, everything you see,

1:381 minute, 38 secondsI'm talking about the assembly itself, I do myself. I solder everything myself, I flash the software myself, I test it all myself, then I put it together. Just mounting

1:481 minute, 48 secondsthe electronics on the boards alone takes me around 10 days, or 8 days if things go well. Screwing everything together at the back with

1:561 minute, 56 secondsthe enclosure, assembling it so it looks nice, so everything fits properly — that's another 7 days. Then testing is at least 10 days, because I'd like

2:052 minutes, 5 secondsthese instruments to work like mine does — all of them, to work that way, meaning nothing ever goes wrong with them, so nobody ever has

2:132 minutes, 13 secondsany warranty issues that something doesn't work. Everything has to work, it has to travel, it has to perform, it has to make you happy. So getting back to this

2:212 minutes, 21 secondsprocess — it has gotten longer, because I think I was a bit off about the build and testing time. More time is needed

2:302 minutes, 30 secondsfor that. But answering your question about when we'll be able to finalize some orders, when we'll be able to talk about it — I think

2:382 minutes, 38 secondsthat once I finish this instrument behind me down there, the desktop version, I'll have the full picture. Once I have the full picture,

2:462 minutes, 46 secondsI'll be able to answer you with full responsibility: "Okay, this version will be ready in a month, that version

2:542 minutes, 54 secondswill be ready in three weeks or in two months," and then independently I'll be able to take such an order from anyone. We'll be able to talk about

3:033 minutes, 3 secondsany personalization, about changing something. And with many of you I've written about this, I've answered your questions, and it's great that there are

3:123 minutes, 12 secondsideas, that there are suggestions. I'm open to them, of course within my capabilities, within what this instrument's engine allows us to do, but

3:223 minutes, 22 secondsI can make certain small changes, and I talk with you about that in those emails and so on. I try to reply to them as quickly as possible.

3:323 minutes, 32 secondsBut getting back to it — build time for an instrument will be around a month, and at this stage I'm absolutely not able to shorten that,

3:413 minutes, 41 secondsas long as I'm mostly working on this myself. I'm not saying that because a carpenter makes the enclosure, someone helps me with the panel, but those

3:493 minutes, 49 secondsare parts that arrive to me ready-made, and I have to do all the rest myself — wire everything up, install it, get it running. So please bear with me a little

3:583 minutes, 58 secondslonger. I'll try to record videos like this a bit more often and talk about these stages, but right now this is where things stand. Two instruments are

4:064 minutes, 6 secondscompletely ready and are still being tested. The third is being built — probably the simplest, because it doesn't have a keyboard, so structurally it's a bit

4:134 minutes, 13 secondssimpler, but I still have to finish all the electronics in it. Once these three instruments are done, we'll come back to the topic of possible orders. Thank you very much, and please help me by somehow responding to these instruments.

4:284 minutes, 28 secondsHelp me by commenting on what I do. Negative comments are fine too, because they show me what you don't like. So thank you very much for all of them, and

4:384 minutes, 38 secondslet's stay in touch.