Years ago I used to follow some Swedish eccentric knob twiddler on Youtube called Simon the Magpie, who did interesting things on a zero budget with circuit bent gear. And more recently dabbled in pedal building and the like. He’s suddenly turned up in my timeline with his own synth box which seems heavily influenced by the small cute Chompi type aesthetic (but is something altogether different).
The idea behind it (kind of morphing - or as they say interpolating - between waveforms like the Liven Warps) seems potentially interesting, its got a fairly unique interface with some neat tricks, some of the sounds seem fun (particularly the droning) and the price (£350/$450) isn’t ridiculous.
However, the launch/demo video is more frustrating than informative - feeling more like an attack of ADHD than a proper explainer (although maybe that reflects the slight sense that the Round Robin has been built around every mad idea the creator had, with no editing or throwing stuff away). It’s slightly suprising that someone who in the past has done fairly decent quality product reviews is so bad at explaining and promoting his own gear. But will be interesting to see a bit more of it, nonetheless.
