As no one else has added this yet let me pop it on here for discussion.
A cheap, entry level Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI) in the guise of a recorder.
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My first observations after just half a day of ownership…
- with the ‘mute’ removed it plays like a basic, plastic, soprano recorder.
- it no longer seems to come with a lanyard or anything to stop you loosing the ‘mute’. Should take all of 10 seconds to find a bit of thread to tie the mute to the re.corder though so no biggy.
- it comes with an app which is child oriented but perfectly usable with teaching and a range of different instruments.
- latency (Bluetooth) playing via the app on my bang up to date iPhone was truly awful but on my 3 year old iPad mini isn’t bad at all. Go figure. Apps available for Android too.
- you can play the recorder itself over a range of 3 octaves once you have the skills, but there’s also an octave shift control which is handy when switching between different instruments.
- if blowing isn’t your thing you can have it activate when it touches your lips or simply on finger contact but really, blowing is the whole point.
- there looks like there are x-y movement sensors so I’m guessing they can be mapped to midi CC values once hooked up to a DAW.
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I mean.
Its a super compact Bluetooth midi controller that would look pretty cool to use on stage. I certainly could have used one of them up my sleeve at my performance on Friday.
I’m a fan of this machine(the promo with the guy playing the drums by tapping the button- i genuinely hated, but I suppose it was useful information being communicated)
(Also i was kinda hoping it would be like the Soma Pipe- but for what it is it looks super useful)
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I’ve been after a flute-adjacent MIDI instrument for some time as my other half is a flautist (I love that term) so this looks pretty interesting.
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Just hooked it up to my MBP and LPX and had a quick spritz with it. There’s definitely some bluetooth midi latency. The I/O buffer size didn’t really make any difference here. I did briefly try selecting Settings > Audio > General > Low Latency Monitoring Mode and I think that made a little difference but also caused some audio glitches with the instrument I had selected.
I need to experiment more. Slow playing and pads are probably OK but I’m predicting trying to play plucked type sounds against a drum track is going to give sucky results.
I’ll tinker more during the week and see if YouTube has the holy grail of settings to minimise this lag.
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looks interesting, hopefully the dev leads with latency viable tips in a video of their own.
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Just as a little heads up because they’ve done a pretty good job of concealing it:
Artinoise is another project by Davide from Soundmachines who I’m not sure if anyone from here really followed along but raked in a load of cash for (ARCHES) which promised to do a lot of things that it couldn’t and then was essentially abandoned for about 4 years leaving all the suckers (me included) with a barely functioning very poorly put together thing that I think most of us ended up selling at a pretty big loss.
So not a great history of quality builds and firmware support which is a real shame because Lightstrip was pretty decent but I’ll never touch anything ever again from this guy. It’s fair to say that it’s also ruined kickstarter as a concept for me as any time anything looks cool, I think about the grand I dropped on a piece of shit that not only took about an extra year to deliver, but was garbage when it did.
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Hi Stlaub.
Do you have any direct knowledge or experience with the re.corder ?
Nope, I’m merely passing on my previous experience with the guy that’s behind it on another product I got off him.
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