#1

hey this looks quite nice. lots of sample editing tools, clear cv mapping, slicing, fx (!)

i like the way the pitching sounds. raw!

cool joystick controlled windowing/granular stuff at the 5:24 + 6:48 marks (love me some amen breakz - but i think this will sound very pretty with melodic samples)

looking forward to seeing how the sampling works. i guess it’s thru the cv inputs?

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#2

Just preordered…

#3

Yeah looks pretty nice! I wish they would demo it with some less aggressive sounds though…

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#4

every module ever. :laughing:

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#5

Same thoughts here, this looks like it would work quite well for ambient material ( kind of like a little digitakt sampling engine in a module). If the sampling-in works smoothly I think this is easily going to the top of the list.

(also looks like there might be some auto slicing?)

#6

yeah it reminds me of the digitakt! Feed it some sampled tape loops and you are off to the (ambient) races.

#7

I’m even looking at this one. As a product, it seems to sit in a new “middle” position between a few much larger, much more expensive, and fantastically complex modules (Assimil8r, ER-301, Bitbox), and on the other side, various really rudimentary sample player modules (e.g., Tiptop One). The inclusion of effects means there are some additional, built-in ways to “animate” the samples with CV.

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#8

Got mine last Friday, and finally had some time to play with it yesterday and today. It definitely felt a little confusing and menu dive-y at the start, but now I am getting the hang of it, and starting to really like it. Overall, I am impressed. It has a bunch of features I’ve been wanting (mostly an easy, immediate way to splice samples and move a play head around, more similar to how I would in Ableton). Selecting and recording samples is super easy. Personally, I prefer it to the Morphagene in some ways (which I am selling, but mostly to make way for a Magneto) and the Nebulae v2 (which I already sold). The built-in effects are impressive, the CV controls are solid, and there is a perform mode which will be handy once I have things set up.

One other nit, this thing (not surprisingly) seems to be a power hog. It rebooted my make noise skiff a few times yesterday, but I unplugged a few other power hungry digital modules today and had no issues. Might also be a bug with the current firmware. This thing definitely feels like a little computer.

The manual is helpful: https://www.ericasynths.lv/media/sample_drum_instrukcija_A4_compressed.pdf

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#9

I pretty much use my bitbox for slicing loops now and am considering maybe selling and getting this. I love Erica Synths stuff but also love some of bitboxes other feature, albeit I do not use them as often as slicing…