Anyone who dare give an estimate on price? 640ish dollars??
with the T-1 @ $599 I’m going to guess they’re going to go high-ish at maybe like $799 or $899.
$600 is not ‘cheap’ for the T-1, I mean it’s a unique piece, with excellent build quality and good I/O, but still, it’s $600, I’d say something with the capabilities that this has will be at least a bit higher than the T-1.
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still doesn’t mention stereo samples anywhere, but it’s a stereo line input and stereo tracks, so maaaaybe? It would be kinda funny to stereo-ify the whole thing except the sample engine.
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Next to the bpm it shows a stereo symbol I assume that would be the sample no?
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I just bought all sorts of new EURO modules…now I need to sell them. 11/17…is that correct?
The S-4 is a sculpting sampler designed to capture and transform sounds. Merging tape-era workflows with cutting-edge technology, the S-4 redefines sound mangling by providing a futuristic platform for crafting unique soundscapes and compositions, using samples and real-time audio processing.
S-4 is a tool made for sonic explorers. It has four parallel stereo tracks, each with an audio engine featuring a chain of audio devices including samplers, live granular processing, morphing resonators, and a range of audio effects. A novel modulation system allows anything and everything to be modulated with 20 modulators per track. Capture sounds on the fly with the onboard microphone and stereo line input, or load samples from the four gigabyte internal flash storage.
Use cases
The S-4 is a versatile powerhouse, capable of serving as an effects processor, transformative sound designer, tape machine, live looper, classic sample player, or textural synthesizer.
tape machine
Capture your surroundings. Use S-4 as a transformative four-track tape machine.
effect processor
Manipulate live audio, and add color and textures to your beats, melodies, and sounds
midi controlled sampler
Hook up a MIDI keyboard or sequencer and use S-4 as a powerful textural synthesizer and sample player.
Audio engine
Push the creative boundaries and transform audio into uncharted depths. S-4 has four parallel stereo tracks, each of which contains a chain of five audio devices tailored to cover specific sonic areas and applications. Create everything from glittering textures to broken soundscapes or evolving synth sounds. Together, the devices form a playful toolbox for sculpting sample material and live audio.
Animate and bring life to any parameter using the rich and unique modulation system. Each audio device has four configurable modulators that can be mapped to any parameter with unlimited mapping destinations. It is even possible to do cross-modulation between modulators. In total S-4 has 20 modulators per track. Choose between a range of different modulators from complex LFOs, and generative sequencers to envelopes.
Performance in action
At its core, the S-4 revolves around four action buttons that provide instantaneous and dynamic control. The behavior of the action buttons transforms with the flow of the interface, ensuring that you always have the control you need. Each audio device has a dedicated set of action buttons for controlling specific elements, such as triggering audio recording or freezing the granular processor’s buffer. The action buttons also provide quick access to essential functions like muting and selecting tracks, enhancing workflow efficiency.
Capture your surroundings
Utilize the built-in microphone to record sounds, sample and loop your external gear with the stereo line input, resample the internal tracks, or effortlessly load samples from the S-4’s flash memory or an external drive.
The S-4 is designed with durable RGB buttons offering tactile feedback and a high-quality 3.5-inch LCD display ensuring all the visual feedback you need. It features USB connectivity for seamless connection to class-compliant devices and effortless file transfers to and from your laptop. Moreover, it can function as an audio interface when you require a simplified setup. You can also expand the number of inputs and outputs by connecting a class-compliant external USB interface.
Audio engine features
4 parallel stereo audio tracks
Tape player with live looping capabilities
Polyphonic sample player
Live granular processing with time-warping and pitch-shifting algorithms
Morphing resonator (48-band filter bank)
Bit crushing, drive, and compression
Combined reverb and delay with pitch-shifting and shimmer
Modulation features
4 modulators per device (20 per track)
Modulate any parameter of the audio engine
Modulator types:
– Complex LFOs
– Generative sequencing tools
– Envelopes
Hardware
Quad-core 1.5 GHz processor
4 GB flash memory (sample pool)
24-bit / 48 kHz stereo audio in and out
I/O
2 line-inputs
2 line-outputs
Built-in microphone
Stereo headphone output
MIDI in/out
Analog sync in/out
USB-C
Miscellaneous
WiFi – Ableton Link
Class-compliant USB audio interface
Expandable number of inputs/outputs with class-compliant USB interfaces
User Interface
High-resolution LCD color display, 3.5 inch
21 tactile RGB buttons
9 high-quality endless encoders
Physical
Matte black aluminum casing
Dimensions: 242 x 156 x 39 mm (9.5” x 6.1” x 1.5”)
Weight: 820g (1.8 lbs)
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If I had the money I would probably be interested in getting one, but I would want to see that the display is really responsive and loads long waveforms quickly (404Mk2 is bad for this but the OT is actually quite good), same for the general interface switching. It needs to feel really fast and slick if they’re charging a high price for it.
I hope they’re not skimping on having all the basic effects available, like a gate/expander for example which is something I sorely miss on the OT. And audio sidechain modulation between the tracks would be really really wonderful and potentially particularly important given it only has the stereo pair of outputs.
And given that there’s not too many physical controls on there I’d hope it has solid MIDI CC control support for most things, so I can hook up a mixer controller etc. Also MPE support for poly aftertouch modulation would be a big deal.
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Isn’t this similar to a Tasty Chips GR-1? It seems at least to overlap some features. That’s another one I could remove from the shopping list.
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Really hope it can record long loops only thing that would bum me out is low sampling time
that to me looks like two chain links, like a symbol of Ableton Link or that the tempo is linked to something.
Guess you’re right. They’re not circles.
It supports external drive but it’s probably only to load and not sample into. Nevertheless a Digitakt has 1GB flash and this one has 4GB.
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1GB for mono samples though so relatively close (twice as much more or less) to each other in terms of sample time (assuming this uses stereo samples)
Whoops yeah I see it’s Stereo samples
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Material
Stereo tape and sample players with live audio and looping capabilities.
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Looks really interesting… I don’t have too much more to add except that there is a lovely symmetry with the 4 stereo tracks and the 4 midi tracks of a DN. Oh, and it’s nearly the end of NGNY for me…
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4 tracks 
Not interested.
Digitakt 4 midi tracks to this…4 midi tracks to my modular…perfection.
Or Perkons 
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This must be the Octatrack MkIII?
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Quadratrack
Octatrack mk0,5
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