Tasty Chips GR-1 : Hardware Poly Granular Synth

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#21

Prototype images on their Facebook account. https://www.facebook.com/tastychipselectronics/

#22

Tasty Chips mentions in the comment section of the photo that USB audio interface support is a stretch goal. That would mean sampling audio in.

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#23

Iā€™m pretty hot for this box, just hope the kickstarter lands at a convenient time.
Want more demos too!

That demo 6 st around 45sec is like slipping out of consciousnessā€¦

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#24

FYI Kickstarter is live now. Decided Iā€™m not getting one.

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#25

I was all set but stuck at work, missed the first batch.
Iā€™m out.

#26

Right- it looks cool, but after moving ITB- I canā€™t justify it for that price

#27

Same. I was mesmerized by its beautiful design for sure. It wouldnā€™t be an integral part of my setup if I bought it. Too much of a luxury for me.

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#28

FFSā€¦ first batch all gone before I even knew the kickstarter page was live. Want one bad

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#29

Thereā€™s a lot of people out there that have approx. $900 just sitting around for such a thingā€“which makes me feel poor :smiley:

#30

Donā€™t be fooled. In many cases they donā€™t and spend the money anyway.

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#31

Thanks! Still poor, but more responsible with money

#SoTheresHope <3

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#32

They got my attention now.

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#33

Yeah, I have no doubt itā€™ll be crazy fun to play with. The mess that Granular Synthesis can be makes it pretty difficult to sport that price tag for me.

I feel they missed an opportunity to put audio-in though. I donā€™t know if- with sampling over USB you can plug in a little portable interface and live record sounds in that way. (Which I am fully aware of the contradiction of- canā€™t pay that much for Granular synthesis, but I need more features before Iā€™ll continue to not pay current price tag for device. Iā€™m just sayingā€¦)

If you get one, though- be sure to post a lot of videos so I can experience it vicariously :smiley:

#35

Looks amazing! It says Raspberry Pi 3 inside - I wonder how they are getting usable latency running linux on a raspi?

#36

I think latency is not so relevant on a granular pad machine like this. Itā€™s not like you are fingerdrumming on this or syncing up beats.

I kind of miss the macro / performance parameters on this. They are kind of the whole point in granular synthesis and they make it playable.

#37

its possible to get rPI3 latency down to acceptable levels, once you use an external audio interfaceā€¦ which this must be using (if not, its going to be terrible, so I assume they are)
Iā€™m confused why the audio interface they went with didnā€™t included an audio input, seems like an obvious omission.
hopefully they will also be using a buildroot distro to ensure it boots up ā€˜instantlyā€™.

I think this is a nice project, a good example of combining available technologies to form something really nice.

you could build this with a rPI3 + 7" lcd + PiSound + Arduino/stm (for analog io) + sliders/knobs, but it would take a faIr amount of effort to then build the associated software, and make it work nicely together.

perhaps this says something about the state of rPI software, with a plethora of touchscreens available for it, it would be possible to build something similar to the various ipad options, but I donā€™t think ive seen anything approaching the quality of the gr-1 or ipad on the rPI.

#38

Good to know. Funnily enough I was googling around and I found some posts from you on the Axoloti forum regarding Raspi, bela and latency :slight_smile:

Yeah, that is a bit odd!

#39

This looks lovely.

#40

Sounds really niceā€¦

#41

The M4L Granulator will take up less space on my desk

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