i think kalimbas are a great example for granular sampler tone. its organic and harmonic with a very percussive transient. i much prefer it to a guitar or something
the chompi example sounds great in that it retains the sharp angular windowed grains. i prefer that type to sound to the ultra blurry ambient clouds. more miso cornflakes/m4l granulator II than mutable stuff or the gr-1. i hope the torso can get choppy and sharp particulate as well as gaussian shaped
I wonder how it compares to the GR-1. Both are in the same price region.
Didnāt know I needed this but I now need this. And the sequencer.
So, a Korg M1 emulator?! 
I would love to simply see three minutes of audio. Perhaps guitar track in and drum track in. Then do something with the two sounds.
The unit looks possibly expressive and surely capable of mangling sounds Iād love to see a familiar use case switching between dry and wet.
I wonder what the max buffer size/time is
That UI seems pretty neat.
Looks beautiful but I donāt see anything I canāt do in software or hear anything that Iād pay $900 forā¦yet.
Looking forward to hearing more. I just personally canāt get into buying hardware to make ambient sounds when I have a million options for that already.
Iād like to hear someone making a banger with this, the T-1 and a drum machine. Obviously thatās not what I expect everyone else wants to hear, but I always am open minded when it comes to samplers and their potential.
Love the FX on this thing though. Very unique sounding reverb and a filter with a morphing resonator is rad. Read an article where a guy suggested it may be a digitakt killer and I was like āhuh??ā. ( Torso Electronics S-4 Sculpting Sampler: The Digitakt Killer? - gearnews.com )
Then I read where he is an ambient producer and it all made sense. If you want to run gear through this to get bizarre sounds, it looks like a winner in that aspect. For me, I am happy with using plugins for that task.
But again, I love what these guys are bringing to the table. I will continue to follow this.
Torso T-1 is just clean, painted metal, no silky/sticky coating. I would expect S-4 to be the same.
I think the hardware and interface look great. But nothing is calling to me. It will be fun to follow how it evolves, and if it ends up being a useful tool to add to the studio.
For one with this you can live sample straight into the device, which to my understanding is not possible with the GR1 unless you attach an audio interface to it via USB.
I also love the elegance of this thing. It seems like the device Iāve been looking for, giving the ability to manipulate live vocals, guitar etc with some high quality sample mangling. Lots of assumptions here of course, but from the two brief demos Torsoās published so far, it seems to do what I hope it would.
preorder from torso is $899 though.
US dollar. My post is in CAN $.
oh. right. moog audio. exchange rate can fvcked though ay?
The T-1 is a big smudge magnet. I have very dry hands and wash them regularly (when covid came people started wasing them like I always have 
) and i can definitely see traces of use every time I use mine. So I was hoping the S-1 has a different coating but looks the same.
Yeah, even in the product teaser it looks greasy af. 
Looks to me like the reverb is a part of the sound engine, soā¦
If you invented it, wouldnāt you want to show it off?
Cheers!
Not so it completely saturates the whole thang. Cheers 
I think theyāre just saying they already have lots of granular tools at their disposal, so they canāt justify $900 without hearing more about it. Seems reasonable.
im just basing it off the video, theres visible smudges around the knobs. just seems like an odd choice for a tool that is touched constantly.
Uhm sounds cool, hopefully more than one trick pony lmao
Would look cool next to my kalimba and succulents I suppose