Patchbay began in a cluttered apartment in Rotterdam, where three friends spent weekends coaxing old synthesizers back to life. What started as a shared obsession quickly outgrew the living room. In 2016, we opened our first proper workshop in a converted warehouse on the south side of the city, and we have been soldering, calibrating, and listening closely ever since.
We are a small team of three. Niels handles the analog work, coaxing warm tones from aging oscillators and reluctant filters. Marijn focuses on digital systems and the occasional stubborn MIDI quirk. Sanna manages restorations, sourcing rare components and keeping long projects on track. Between us, we have decades of experience with the machines that shaped electronic music.
Every synth that passes through our doors carries decades of sound inside it. Our job is to make sure that story continues.
Run details
- Model
- minimax/minimax-m3
- Route
- OpenRouter API, one user message
- Reasoning
- provider default, 916 reasoning tokens
- Limits
- 60 min · 512,000 output tokens
- Date
- 21 Oct 2026
- Time
- 9 s
- Words
- 140
- Tokens
- 223 in, 1,090 out
- List price
- $0.001 ($0.3 in / $1.2 out per M)
- Paid
- $0.001
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.
