Thyme

This pages provides documentation for users of Bastl Instruments' Thyme effects processor.

Manual

There are two kinds of manuals for different use cases or personal preferences:

The Short Manual tells you the minimum you need to know to get started. A printed version is shipped with the device.
The Full Manual explains the core concepts and all the features in detail. It is only available online.

Videos

THYME Effects Processor Explained
20 Sounds No Talking
Destructive Looping

Firmware Updates

Firmware updates can be installed via MIDI as described in the manual. You will need to download our Sysex-Playback App which is available for Linux, MacOS and Windows.

To find out what version your device is currently running on, compare the displayed ID with the ones from this table.

Version	ID	Release Date	Download	Changes
`1.0`	0	April 2018	MIDI File	Initial Version
`1.0.2`	1	Mai 2018	MIDI File	Fixed Bug: Crash when enabling SYNC while CLK or MIDI is selected as the clock source Fixed Bug: Main delay would jump to zero if COARSE and FINE are set to full Fixed Bug: Robot RATE and SHAPE not frozen properly when selecting a different robot or changing the MODE
`1.1.0`	2	Juni 2019	MIDI File	Fixed Bug: Chirp in transition from lowpass to highpass Fixed Bug: Headphone pot does not react sometimes Fixed Bug: Mitigate flash corruption (requires hardware 1.1 to be effective) Feature: Interpretation of MIDI start/stop messages can be disabled Feature: Set to half/double tape speed with button combination Feature: Add triplet as a quantization option (robots and delay length) Feature: Lower minimum speed for oscillator type robots
`1.1.1`	3	August 2019	MIDI File	Fixed Bug: Audio can turn off sometimes on some units until restart. This is a true fix for all units with hardware 1.1 and up and a mitigation for older hardware
`2.0.0`	8	May 2024	MIDI File	Thyme+ firmware, backwards compatible with the original Thyme. Fixed: Cleaning delay buffer on startup to remove noise Updated: Robots randomization tuning to create nicer randomizations Updated: Sequence ends on the last preset when stopped (not on Bypass) Updated: Coarse and Fine LED indication is separate from Tape Speed Updated: Disable MIDI Start/Stop message handling by default (eg. after a factory reset) Updated: Dry/Wet mix is 50% by default (eg. after a factory reset) Updated: Increased knob selecting threshold (to prevent unwanted knob selection change) Added: Active robots indication when selecting a robot Added: Single robot clear (Robot + Bypass) Added: Single bank clear (Bypass + Shift + Preset) Added: Triangle robot can be shaped into sinewave Added: Temporary input mute, only on Thyme+ (Shift + Bypass)