same price as the Play plus.
I’ve been considering a Digitakt 2, but the addition of synth engines might make the tracker+ more enticing.
Their comparisson chart make it look like it has all the same things as the tracker mini though, plus jog wheel and more keys. So not sure, maybe a tracker mini is a better deal.
Going a couple of octaves above audio rate is useful for clocking some things.
It’s kind of too bad there isn’t a pulse width control on Berlin, then it could be used with a switch as a class D VCA, plus it’d make both Nick Batt and his dog happy. 
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jkile9
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That has also put something of a quandary on my plate. Was planning on the Digitakt 2 pretty soon here but build in synth engines are nice… I am pretty familiar with the DT workflow which is nice. Hmmmm
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Thhhh
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IFM Denum can get pretty ultrasonic.
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Having built a similar tool, this is something better built in the instrument itself. The distance (depending on magnets, I’ve used strong ones) to the strings has to be very very close which is not really easy nor comfortable for anything else that a guitar while standing: the hand is in a rest and controlled state and you can see the distance to the strings.
I’ve tried with a kalimba but the effect is very little since the degrees of freedom of the tines are more limited, and the resonance box is usually small (starts to fight with the motor noise, could have used a more silent one).
I’ve also tried with a kantele with a bigger body and it’s nice but also awkward to get right in position, little movements and you’ll hit the strings.
I ended up fitting one on a stick with bass strings (I can’t call that a fretless bass), and works pretty well with pickups, the distance is fixed and the performative part is varying speed, creating nodes on the strings or adding things on top, which is is way more fun that holding your breath so your arm doesn’t move an inch.
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karst
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i hope they never stop making the brutes bigger until they’re the size of a synthi 100
ever bigger brutes
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Has a radio music update been confirmed for this round of releases??
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We’re going to need a bigger brute!
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ciso
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No idea. What I said was that at some time last year (maybe July?) someone at Thonk said there was a new revision due out by the end of the year. That’s come and gone. That’s all I know. I have no insider info on my part.
And I’ll take a bitimbral polybrute 20 please. C’mon Arturia. Make me not want a Super Gemini and a PolyBrute
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20 chars of Brutus Maximus
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Bob’s Big Brute comes to mind, along with the smiling statue
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Bagai looks wonderful, especially if you didn’t want a Sapel. Unfortunately, even the added capabilities of bitcrushing, sample reduction, and using external sources in your S&H aren’t quite enough to make me switch something out of my Frap Tools case.
mono synths go into the water. Poly synth come out.
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ears
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20 characters of Et tu, Brute?
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One day I’ll get my Empick/wond ii, one day…
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when he presses the ‘luck’ button at 8m8s - those motorised faders sliding themselves around - that’s awesome. I’ll never buy this but I love that it exists
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I am mega hyped to someday order this pre-release
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