Applewood Instruments presents

Tendril

A MIDI LFO pedal, hand-made and hand-signed one at a time.
Six waveforms, presets, clock sync, and a knob for everything — in a box smaller than a stompbox has any right to be.

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WAVE

MORPH

‹ PRESET ›

TAPMUTE

Turn the WAVE selector through its eight stops (six shapes, Settings, Mute), drag the two side knobs, and tap the footswitch for tap-tempo (hold to mute). Click the screen to flip the knobs between Lo/Hi and Morph/Rate — just like the real thing.

MIDI channel

CC number

Send to real MIDI device

Not sending

Everything a modulation LFO should do

Six waveforms

Sine, triangle, square, random, pulse, and a fully custom slot — each with its own morph parameter and its own memory.

32 presets

Named, saved, recalled by footswitch or incoming Program Change. Nothing is lost between shows.

MIDI clock sync

Lock the rate to incoming clock from 1/32 note to 8 bars, or run free and tap the tempo in by foot.

Full CC automation

Assign incoming CC to Lo, Hi, morph, wave, rate, or mute. Every parameter is playable from outside, too.

One USB-C cable

Class-compliant USB-MIDI in and out, power, and a tiny drive for editing custom waveforms — all through a single port.

Custom waveforms

Drop a plain-text file on the USB drive and draw your own step sequence or formula. No software to install.

What you're actually buying

Every Tendril you see here is hand-made and 3D-printed by me, one at a time, on my own desk. The enclosure is printed, the electronics are hand-wired, and the case gets numbered and signed before it ships. What you get in the mail is a working, one-of-a-kind instrument — not a render.

The production version is coming: a powder-coated aluminum enclosure, made in a real run. Every hand-made prototype ships with a 50% off coupon code toward that production unit when it's released — so buying one now is also a discount on the version later.

01 Hand-made, 3D-printed enclosure

02 Numbered & signed by hand

03 50% off coupon for the aluminum release

Prototype run — hand-made, one at a time

Tendril, Prototype Edition

$XXX + shipping

3D-printed enclosure, hand-wired, hand-tested
Numbered and signed by the maker
Ships with a 50% off coupon for the powder-coated aluminum release
Class-compliant USB-MIDI, 6 waveforms, 32 presets, clock sync
Limited to Edition of ?? — once they're gone, the next batch is the aluminum run

Reserve a numbered prototype

You'll get a confirmation email with your unit number and coupon code once your prototype ships.