Hi all,
Lately I’m really into portability and small foot prints when it comes to making music, it’s such a luxury not to carry those 2-4kg devices on and from your desk all the time.
I thought it would be a cool idea to spread some love for these compact companions and open a thread to list a few devies that are mostly under 3-4cm thickness.
The ones I’m using:
In the future, bluebox and M:S might join the compact crew;)
obviously:
A bit thick but still compact:
Minimalism doorbell with single two tone sound.
Clavia Micro Modular, cyberpunk unit…
Long wanted to take one, knowing the normal Nord Modular, never dared, a little afraid of the lack of controls and the hypothetical hold over time of the editing software.
i wanted one for a while, but was told that actual processing power is comparable to Axoloti, so i bought another Axoloti 
Yeah, both that and the original Nord Modular (Rack preferably) are so fucking awesome in concept, but the reality of it in the year 2021 seems so lame that I haven’t got one either. If only you could use it with a tablet…
Then again miRack does pretty much the same thing & I can’t stand using the touch screen with it, hah.
doh… didn’t know there was a small laucnhcontrol.
I have an Axoliti and a Norns Shield, both of which I don’t have time to explore until mid August (after my MRes hand-in) but I’m looking forward to them a lot
I listed mine on here because I have the LCXL but I’m tempted to keep it. It’s a handy little device
I have the XL as well but this small version would be excellent on the go… no more sold alas.
Arturia Beatstep (regular one, not Pro) is a nice replacement for LaunchControl.
not much bigger, and has endless encoders & MIDI Out.
Axoloti is absolutely critical component of all my setups.
i barely ever tried to use it for sound generation – but heavily employ it for all kind of MIDI processing jobs, including very sophisticated arpeggiator.
I think you can use it with surface tablet
That doesn’t really help one bit, hah!
I’ve seen a few things people have done but really am pretty clueless as to what their full potential is. It’s exciting stuff!
what’s most exciting about Axoloti is that i managed to design a dozen of custom objects without proper C knowledge
i don’t know any other platform that would allow me that
Ha! I’m very much into this idea! I like the concept of creating my own devices but have absolutely no knowledge of coding beyond HTML, CSS and a (very) little Perl
