Hamish Sandys-Renton
I build instruments, and the tools behind them.
Engineer working across the cloud, audio software and firmware. Lately: new firmware for a vintage drum machine, instruments built on Raspberry Pi, and software that helps musicians work together.
Selected work
- 01
Machinedrum firmware
New firmware for a 2001 drum machine. Six independent mono outputs, a compressor on every output bus, and the safety tooling to flash it without bricking anything.
- 02
PiSampler
A multi-voice hardware sampler and synth built on a Raspberry Pi, played from a Cirklon sequencer, with granular playback, a vocoder, a formant 'singer' voice and chaotic modulation.
- 03
BeatButler
Version control and time travel for Ableton Live. Roll back to any version of a project and collaborate without overwriting each other's work.