Patchbay is a small workshop in Rotterdam where old synthesizers come back to life. We are three people — a former recording engineer, a self-taught circuit obsessive, and a classically trained pianist who fell in love with broken machines — and between us we have spent decades coaxing sound out of equipment the rest of the world gave up on.
We started Patchbay because we kept meeting the same problem: beloved instruments sitting silent in attics and studio corners, written off as unfixable. A Juno with a dead voice chip. A Prophet that drifts out of tune. A Moog that hums when it shouldn't. To us, none of these are lost causes. They are instruments with history in them, and they deserve careful hands, original parts where possible, and honest work.
Every synth that leaves our bench is played, tested, and listened to — because that is what it was made for.
Run details
- Model
- moonshotai/kimi-k3
- Route
- OpenRouter API, one user message
- Served by
- Wafer
- Effort
- max, OpenRouter's default for this model
- Limits
- 60 min · 277,777 output tokens (our $3.00 stop per request at $15/M)
- Date
- 24 Oct 2026
- Time
- 6 s
- Words
- 152
- Tokens
- 132 in, 872 out (677 of them thinking)
- List price
- $0.013 at today's price ($0.192 in / $15 out per M)
- Paid
- $0.010
Exact prompt
Write the opening of the About us page for Patchbay, a three-person studio in Rotterdam that repairs vintage synthesizers. About 150 words. Plain prose only, with no preamble or commentary around it. Reply with the text only.


