"TINRS / Synton Fenix IV Modular Synthesizer - in excellent to new condition. Comes with everything that they came with new: bamboo stand, power supply, all patch cables, bamboo 1/8" to banana jack converter boat, rack ears for rack mounting, certificate and pin, and the bag/backpack."
"This extremely rare TINRS Fenix IV is in immaculate shape, the cable bag was just opened recently. It comes with bamboo legs, a ton of 1/8" TINRS cables, cool padded bag, OG power supply and hours upon hours of exploration."
"A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting Stijn & Priscilla from TiNRS. They hide their company secrets in plain sight, so they're not easy to find between all modules made by Stijn for personal use. The Wobbler2 was on the verge of release, there's a collab between TiNRS and Making Sound Machines (a Looper) and a collab with Error Instruments (White Rabbit). There's also a reverb on the way and I hope they follow my suggestion to have a reverse reverb on it. But that seems to be true rocketscience...
I had a lot of fun making this video.
The Fenix IV is better than I could ever guess, but unfortunately it's sold out forever. Let's hope some of its 31+ components make it to eurorack. The Wobbler2 is a good start!
00:00 Introduction
01:33 Fenix IV jam with Stijn (and me)
03:07 Spy-cam revelations
06:03 Wobbler2 Advanced LFO
10:04 Wobbler2 Drum Synthesizer
This video is sponsored by the Cinematic Laboratory and not the other way around."
"Synth Design Podcast face to face with This is Not Rocket Science in Amsterdam! This is a super special edition, after a long break (and lots of learnings on my end!).
Join me as I go into Stijn and Priscilla's home in Amsterdam, where they brought the Fenix IV to life. Sunday 5th, at 19:30 CET (Amsterdam time), we'll premiere this episode with live chat with the TiNRS team. See you there!
CHAPTERS: 02:58 - Workshop tour 15:09 - The Story Behind The Fenix Synthesizer 25:30 - Studying Acoustic Instruments 33:17 - Building Tools For Synth Building 34:46 - Making the Fenix 54:22 - Where Ideas Come From 01:00:38 - Stijn's Background 01:02:40 - Early Works 01:08:00 - Design Philosophy 01:22:40 - Synthesizer Design Process 01:25:23 - sDFM (Synth Design for Manufacturing) 01:28:56 - Streamlining Product Testing 01:32:52 - Synthesizer Interface Design 01:35:51 - Synthesizer Visual Design 01:41:00 - Answering Community Questions 01:54:03 - Budgeting and Pricing Synthesizers
--- Ending music by Teunis Marseille. Check out his work here: www.instagram.com/teueunis"
"Stijn Haring-Kuipers of This Is Not Rocket Science from the Netherlands gives a detailed explanation of the Fenix IV Modular Synthesizer made by him, and he also gives an extensive demonstration of the sound of this synthesizer"
"TINRS in collaboration with some of the designers of the first three Synton Fenixes has designed this Fenix 4. It is a massive semi-modular synthesizer with a color coded layout where they knobs and jacks are separate so it is easy to turn the knobs while there are tons of patch cables.
"At Superbooth 2019, This Is Not Rocket Science presented Fenix, a new modular Synthesizer with analog and digital technology. To be honest: this is a monster synth but not cheap. Here is my first look.
We think Fenixes are true synthesizer-instruments: they give you all the options you need to explore a very wide range of sonic possibilities. You can learn to play a Fenix quickly and you can still be developing your interaction with it in ten years’ time. The first Fenix was born and bred to satisfy one artist’ wishes for an all in-one system. Our Fenix IV is also born out of this desire with ourselves as the artists.
The density of Fenix I,II and III meant it provided loads of sound in one box. Before eurorack boomed, most modular synthesizers required half a wall of space. Fenix provided all your options in a relatively small container. When Fenix II was released, it packed the most punch for its size anywhere on the market. With Fenix IV we think we continue this tradition. We’ve extended the sounds by adding our best from the digital world. The intention is to provide a toolbox for you to make sound with, and not put too much of our flavour in the sounds themselves. Choices are made for maximum sonic variety. For example: we’ve upgraded the delay line from Fenix II with a musical element. In Fenix IV we are now providing a tuneable version so you can use it as a physical model of a string.
There is a flow to every Fenix. All the modules have the same direction for inputs and outputs: roughly left to right and top to bottom. This is the same in educational diagrams that talk about synthesizer structure. We managed to consistently apply this giant swipe from up left to down right across our Fenix too. You can distinguish types of signals on a Fenix by the colour coding – we’ve taken this helpful visual aid and extended it to giving the modules a coloured grouping that corresponds between the knobs and the jacks. Another feature of the Fenix family is the waterline that divides the knobs from the jacks. Keeping the knobs up top means your patching never gets in the way of your twiddling. This division also helps to maintain a sense of overview with lots of cables patched in.
We see the Fenix family as having a “Yes, and” mentality. The usual divide of tonal versus experimental or additive versus subtractive synthesis does not exist in a Fenix. You can have everything at the same time and you can have multiple TYPES of oscillators, filters, lfo’s, envelopes and effects to do your patching with. We have added the usual analog versus digital divide to this “Yes, and“ mentality. There is no need to choose, you can have it all.
All the modules in our Fenix IV – listed by colour grouping:
YELLOW – Oscillators and sound sources
Input
Interface to external sound sources – has an envelope tracker and a gate and trigger threshold.
