Hum 2 is a multi-timbral synthesizer with a multi-engine designed around sensory input. It’s the evolution of Crum Hum. It features six built-in sensors: distance, light, tilt X/Y, and touch 1 and 2.
Isn’t this the machine that originally was to be a collaboration with a product engineer artist? If so, nice to see that they went with a consumer affordability route, as it sounds pretty good.
Yeah i came across this too today and really felt a little bit in love with that. Seems to be a nice toy for performing. I am wondering if that could be usefull for a live setup that is less performative as well.
In case the variety of built in sounds aren’t enough and you are using the generative portion of this synth, or on the other hand you want to use the internal sounds with your own sequences.
Very simple thing that opens this synth up even further.
Just an appreciation post for this thing, I think I’m in love. It has such a character of its own, induced weirdness and amazing playability. Feels like evrything I wish Lyra 8 was when I pzrted way with mine
Mine arrived in the post a couple of days ago, and it really is a lovely little box of sounds. Pretty much everything it produces has a particular sound to it, despite the twelve tweakable voices. But the “lost in a magic garden” vibes they all seem to conjure up are quite marvellously beguiling. Kind of quite nice to set up and let run for a while, occasionally shifting the randomness up and down between channels. As a bit of a lazy drone/sound box enjoyer, I like this thing a lot.
The Lyra always seems to end up with you fighting it to get useable sounds. Great as it is, it’s definitely on my sell-when-I-get-round-to-it list. Whereas the Crum Drum, though simpler and less ambitious, just creates beautiful shimmering noises super easily. They are very different things though, even if one is definitely way more instantly pleasing than the other (at least at the moment!)
