Artemis Waitlist Newsletter · Issue No. 3
Hi all,
First of all, if you are new here, thanks for joining the waitlist! It’s been awesome seeing the amount of love and support that Artemis has been getting over the last month. If you have missed any of the previous newsletters, you can now read them on our blog. We’ve come a long way in the past month, that’s for sure!
As you read this newsletter, Artemis is currently undergoing beta testing from members of our community. We are actively improving the functionality and experience of Artemis each day, directly based on your feedback. Launch is very close.
Here’s a quick video explaining Artemis to get you up to speed.
Playing connects to YouTube, which may use cookies or browser storage. Privacy information
From Harry: hardware updates
Where the hardware is at
We have now received our production candidate motherboards. They are a massive improvement over the last revision, both in terms of assembly and noise performance. We are now at least as quiet as a Line 6 Helix — my interface was struggling to pick anything up at all!
The Artemis hardware now looks to be pretty final, which means we are on track for an October launch — more on that later though! I must admit, after a month of playing with the new enclosures we featured last month, I could not go back to that old footswitch placement!
Preset switching reliability testing
I have spent this month hammering Artemis with switching tests and reliability testing. I have tested Artemis switching over 10,000 times using an automatic MIDI tester, which switches between analogue-only, virtual + analogue and virtual-only presets, to ensure that Artemis stays reliable even after many switching cycles.
I am pleased to say that even after 10,000 cycles, Artemis did not skip a beat. That is amazing news and has massively increased my confidence in this production candidate motherboard!
Next steps
Going forward, I am changing direction from R&D to ramping up production. We are now getting the final motherboards ordered for the Founders Edition batch and building up the first units. Over this period, I am going to be optimising the final design for easier assembly to make sure we can get the first units out as quickly as possible!
One final note: what do you think of our packaging?
From Nathan: software bits
Hi all, the past month has been a massive leap forward for software. In fact, so many changes have been made that it’s probably easiest if I just bullet-point them:
- NAM pedals separate from NAM amps
- Stompbox mode
- EQ and compressor UI
- A better tuner, supporting very low tunings such as C standard on bass
- An improved multitrack looper — new demo coming soon
- Preset templates
- An improved preset editor UI
Let’s dive into a few of those below.
NAM pedals
If you’ve found out about us from Instagram, you have probably seen a few of the real pedal vs NAM pedal videos we have been teasing. This month, we have expanded NAM A2 capabilities to include NAM pedals as well as NAM amps. This means you have plenty of options to add NAM anywhere in your signal chain.
We are currently testing the limits of our hardware to see how many concurrent NAM instances Artemis can support. We have currently tested four NAM A2 Full amp captures + two NAM A2 Lite pedal captures simultaneously, but we have some more testing to do to increase performance and stability.
Here’s a quick video of NAM pedals in action:
Playing connects to YouTube, which may use cookies or browser storage. Privacy information
Stompbox mode
Stompbox mode is a special feature we have added based on requests from our beta testers. This mode turns Artemis into a simple loop switcher, so you can use it to activate your pedal loops in order. This is ideal for testing out configurations, or when you are in a pinch at a gig or jam session and don’t have time to create a fresh preset!
Graphical EQ revamp
Over the last month, we realised how much we were using Artemis’ virtual loops to do quick EQ changes, but were left wanting more from the UI. We have modelled the new graphic EQ UI on something closer to what you would see in a fully fledged DAW, rather than sticking to the old pedal-style theming.
This is probably my favourite change I have made in a while. The real-time spectrum is super convenient for dialling in your tone settings.
Playing connects to YouTube, which may use cookies or browser storage. Privacy information
Final preset editor UI tweaks
We have gone back and forth on the preset editor UI in Houston what feels like 10 times. This is something we really want to get right, as it is pretty central to the entire device. This month it has had another major revamp, along with another handy feature that should make Artemis a lot easier for new users: templates.
There are three templates when creating a preset in Artemis:
- Full: unlock all routing features, virtual effects, MIDI, parallel routing options and more.
- Simple: a preconfigured mono input, mono output and series signal chain — most like a standard pedal setup.
- Virtual only: an optimised editor for purely virtual presets, with more space to add effects and a clearer view for virtual workflows.
From Joel: big things are coming
Hi everyone! Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who has joined the waitlist so far! It’s great to see so many people are interested in Artemis.
I thought I’d give everyone a clearer view of our launch plan. We touched on this in our last waitlist post, but hopefully this should clear it up further for everyone:
The Founders Edition launch
The Artemis Founders Edition will be live at the end of October. We will do a social media countdown to the exact date, so keep your eyes peeled. We have a very limited quantity of 50 units, so make sure you’re ready at your computer, as we feel like they will sell out very quickly! We are expecting to ship all units within two weeks of purchase.
The next batch
After those units have sold, we will be updating our site to preorders for the next batch. We currently expect the batch size to be limited to 150–250 units. These will be shipping out 8–12 weeks after purchase, as we have to wait for new component stock — RAM can be tricky these days! — and then hand-assemble each Artemis.
Founders pricing for the waitlist
If you are on the waitlist, we want to make sure you keep the Founders Edition price of £589. We understand that some people might miss out on the Founders Edition, but we definitely want to honour the price for everyone who has followed from the start. You will receive a single-use discount code via email to get the discounted price.
Building the community
We will be opening a Discord chat after launch so users can share sounds, ideas, or even talk to us about features they would like in future updates. We want to keep the product at the centre of the community.
If you have any questions regarding the launch, please feel free to send us a message!
Our collaboration with TONE3000
Another great bit of news is our collaboration with TONE3000! We will be updating our site shortly to show off all the great things this collaboration can do for guitarists. Artemis will run TONE3000 natively, so you will get free access to a massive library of guitar and bass amps, pedals, speaker cabinets and more.
If you want to know more about TONE3000, please visit their website. More information about our collaboration will be available on our website shortly.
Harry, Joel and Nathan
Trinity Labs
