Hello,
Hope ya’ll are doing alright out there! 
It’s officially winter in Minneapolis and it seems like a good time for an update about what we’re working on. We’ve got a handful of goals to round out this year.
December sale
We’re building up and selling pretty much all of our remaining inventory. The sale will be next Friday December 13th. We’ll confirm details in a separate announcement post soon which should send everyone on the forum an email.
Both Sparks and Ribbons will be available. We had to order some extra enclosures for Ribbons so we’re doing a new colorway, matte pretty pink, which is the same as last year’s pink but with a matte finish and black text.
This will be the last opportunity to snag a pedal from us for a bit. I’m sure we’ll build more next year but no timing to share yet.
2.0 firmware is coming... soon
Some Ribbons users have asked about the 2.0 firmware and when it will be available. (Just to be clear - if you have a grey unit you already have this. The update is for existing users).
We’d planned to make 2.0 available before the end of November but I need a bit more time. We’ve been really focused on moving Kinotone out of our home and setting up our shop space. Building shelving, benches, storage… it’s coming along but dang it’s a lot of work! I don’t want to promise a specific delivery date but I’ll do my best to finish it asap. We’ll share here on the forum when it’s ready. Thanks for your patience. 
Custom MIDI Cables
Are you tired of plugging your MIDI cable into an adapter… into another adapter? Well we had some custom DIN to TRS MIDI cables made and should have them up in our webstore in time for the sale.
Plug and play with Kinotone pedals and any standard TRS Type A MIDI device. There seems to be a lack of these 1/4 inch cables on the market - especially an affordable one - so hopefully these will be helpful to people.
They look like this:
New Pedal R&D
I’ve secretly been working on a third pedal for quite some time now. I’m really excited about it - been gigging with a prototype and I think it might be the coolest and most unique thing we’ve made to-date.
We are selling off the rest of our Sparks and Ribbons to help fund production costs. We’re hopeful that this next one can be available for immediate shipment once it’s ready instead of having to do a pre-order to fund it. Once we’re on the other end of this December sale, getting our next device across the finish line will be my main focus for the foreseeable future. Hoping for a release sometime in Q1 of 2025.
Thanks for reading! Any questions, feel free to ask. Here are some recent pictures -
New shop space coming along.
Prepping Sparks
Prepping Ribbons
Obligatory cat picture
what an exciting step forward!
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b/c they are so so good . Yes there are the silly cheap patch cables but even without any the unit can do some serious stereo damage. I usually run ribbons right after the kastle 2 to help with reverb and more “leashed” time processing