oh now this is very interesting kit right here

[solarbird]

Check it out – it’s a sample-based synth, right? But it lets you snip and select subsets of the waveform live, as you’re playing. Sure, there’s nothing here that you can’t do now with a DAW and mics and such, but as an interface? This is really, really slick.

It’s a prototype only at the moment, which is too bad. Love to play with this.

"Crazy Synthesizer Demo" (Watch on YouTube)

(h/t spazzkat and gizmodo)

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Comments

[vatine]

That seems rather neat.

[solarbird]

It's mostly a really nice interface around stuff that can already be done - hell, is already done. But the dynamism of this particular format should not be underestimated (or undercredited).

This reminds me of a project I bounced around in my head for quite a while, that would've been built using MIcrosoft's old tabletop touch-screen surface, the one that cost like $5000 and included the table. It was always barely more than a prototype, but I had an idea for being able to draw waveforms then do editing and modulation et al on them, playing similarly to this. But it was always far too expensive to pursue.

[vatine]

When I saw this in the office, I ended going off and looking up what Nord are up to, these days and even though I don't actually play keyboards, I am vaguely lusting after a Nord Lead A1, which seems to have some rather handy functionality for getting exactly the sound you want from the synth.