This just reminded me of how I used to play FIFA with my friends; you get to press the random team button up to five times, so if you’ve pressed it four times already you need to decide whether you want to stick with, say, Norwich or whether you dare to twist, knowing you could get anything from Real Madrid to San Marino. That, but with samples.
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Why? Good device for learning/building improv. Dunno if the tracks will communicate the scale info but even if they don’t, figuring it out and building around that sounds like a fun exercise in and of itself.
Press a button, hear a sound, and follow what your brain says to add around that as the starting point. Very much a device that begs for the user response because of the lack of controls. Simple, ephemeral, and that’s really the beauty IMO.
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Equally at risk of being a colossal time suck that could lead to apathy though.
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Honestly, that could be any piece of gear here. 
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Haha…
True that. 
I have a button that I got as a joke gift and it does similar function, so it was an instinct to think it’s a joke.
anyways, 120 euro for a button is weird to me, I thought it’s like this guy who invents useless stuff
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I think the price is probably fair for covering R&D and having it as a compact physical device you can link up to most setups. Obviously you can achieve what I described with other gear, but what you are paying for is essentially their spin of randomization algorithms (take em or leave em) and the fact that is has really discernible limits. Would I personally get this product? Nah I’m good, but I can see a market for it easily. With this device the lack of deeper function doesn’t feel like it is missing features, because it’s clearly intentional. Something you can’t control can be annoying and/or something to take the end user in directions they may not go of their own accord normally. Kind of ironic how it’s not complex but you can say a lot about it from that theoretical point of view.
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That €120 would just sneak in to the fun-stuff-fuck-it-why-not category. But with tax (even in the EU) and pricey postage, it’s up to €180, and I’ll need more mental gymnastics
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Beautiful, simple idea. Anyone know of any iOS apps that could do something similar?
Learned something else from the video =>
It also generates four MIDI tracks as well. The four tracks are in one key, and have the cohesiveness that there random generative engine creates. That could be used in your challenge as well.
It was good to see it be used live in the video.
The sequences generated are shorter than i thought, but it sounded like that is vatuable too. The various synth engines sounded good to me as well.
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Anyone done the math what it’s gonna cost with vat to get one in USA?
Shipping and tariffs added an extra $81 to my order.
Interesting, did you have to choose to pay ahead of time or something? Mine just added $39 for shipping and that’s it.
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It’s just what the total was when I checked out.
Anyone get the silly case tempted ha
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If you google it, PC has a dead link for pre orders but I think it’s not coming to PC for awhile
Technically a federal court in the USA ruled the latest tariff illegal yesterday. ( post for detail and further discussion. ) For whatever that means.
I saw the same $39 shipping (DHL Express) but nothing about tariffs…
EDIT: Just to be clear – I’m totally aware that being in the US I might get hit by arbitrary Trump-tariffs when it ships (or maybe not, depending on whether the judicial branch or the executive branch wins the latest power struggle), but there was no upfront payment of a tariff fee at time of purchase.
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I must admit I couldn’t resist getting the ridiculous case