the lab
every lab room ships with hand-authored guided lessons — interactive 3-5 step builds where you ACTUALLY dial in the patch / program the beat / wire the patch cables, and the page auto-advances when your changes match. no videos, no read-only docs. you do the thing.
TR-909
the kick that built house
Moog
the bass that bernie built
SP-1200
the grit of the golden era
DX7
every bell on every radio
SID 6581
the chip that was a band
Buchla
the synth that refused the piano
Modular
earn the patch cable
do the thing
each lesson is a sequence of 3-5 steps. each step has a check function that introspects the machine's actual state — knob positions, step grid cells, played notes, patch program. the page auto-advances when your changes match. if you stall for 7 seconds, a hint surfaces.
you don't WATCH a lesson — you BUILD the record from scratch on the same machine that made it. by the end you have working knowledge in your hands, not just a video memory.