Is it? I just use my ears. It sounds like trash, which is what I’d expect from that small microphone, and I mean that in a nice way. I have at least 4 other devices with sample/bit rate reduction. At this price I can see owning a second one and modding it to take CV or MIDI or do circuit bending.
It is! Although sure, how it sounds is more important than specs - but I don’t have the opportunity to run my own trumpet samples through it before buying one so I don’t know how it will ring for my needs - whereas if I know it’s 12bit at 10khz I know roughly what I’ll be getting from it. Cruddy converters and shitty chips can be fun for getting certain aesthetics - I want to understand where they’ve cut corners. If it’s super basic but also running at 24khz+ then I’m out.
I currently don’t own any hardware samplers with low sample rates (I’ve done a massive clearout) and now rely on Decimort for introducing flavours - but for £50 I’d consider a little box I could use to grab samples here and there.
A formant vocoder is just what i need for my next project. Perfect.
I think it only has output jacks, all sampling is through the microphone rather than having an input connector.
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I somehow completely missed this! Still potentially useful (I love a shitty microphone) but a useful clarification 
oh word, so the video doesn’t show everything
this is really a lot of synth for $50, ppr man’s SP-404 
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Fell over Hainbachs ‘hainbach on a budget’ video… man, this thing would really fit well into that setup.
I would still like to know what the sample time is.
And probably not, but if you can set start/end/loop points, probably not.
And goes to show some companies arent fixated with profit.
July release announced today.