At Musikmesse 2013, Ploytec introduced the Pi L Squared synth – a cheap, tiny MIDI powered synth.
According to the company, ‘no other synth on the market has more aliasing and quantization noise!”
Here’s a video overview, via sonicstate:
Features:
- Duophonic
- MIDI powered
- Analog square wave oscillators
- Digital & analog filter
The Pi L Squared is expected to ship later this year and to be priced between 64-99 Euro.
this thing actually gets real mean and harsh, perfect for hardcore gabber industrial type sounds maybe, i’m impressed with this tiny synth!
I give them props for telling it like it is.
That’s cool – I’ll probably end up with one eventually. It has a funky lo-fi character to it that could be a lot of fun.
if they get the price down to -$50
i can see a really big market for units like this
midi filter , bass, drum , fx ….
– the day of the big synth is gone –
now it is all modular and the new analog
Perhaps even more of a market if they made USB versions, as well.
Never! Give me DIN or give me Death! 😛
Its always these companies that I find the most interesting at shows.
The real innovators who are chipping away at seemingly crazy ideas, I LOVE these kind of things…i have a draw full, to me they help me NOT sound like the next guy.
What a cool little device! It sounds very SID-like
That’s exactly what I was thinking!
I wonder how this stacks up to the meblip? It’ll be interesting to see the list of controllable parameters.
wanted to hear some sounds that showcased some more parameters..LFO, envelopes…sounds pretty good…
I want to change my vote on the best of Musikmesse ….. this is a cool little box!
Hmm I’m intrigued.
I love it! kind of shows how stiffed we can get by some other manufacturers too..
Next version has to be the size of the DIN plug itself 🙂
As low as 64€!?!?!?!?!!?
Start making polysynth immediately. Even if they doubled everything, put step sequencer and 5 of those duo phonic instances, it might be as low as 650€.
For that price, you could build a 6 voice Ambika, with a display and knobs….
For a software alternative, Mr. Alias 2 (or Pro with the better-sounding GUI) is some nasty dirty shit.
http://www.thepiz.org/plugins/?p=Mr.%20Alias%202
On one hand: it’s tiny, self-contained, MIDI-powered (!) and pretty specialized. I think this is a clever concept that appeals to those who like an unusual tiny spy-synth.
I think if they would have developed this as a DIY project (with a bigger form factor for easier soldering, they might have made a big splash with that crowd. Though there might be some tricky aspects to the build.
Anyway, it’s a cool thing. I’d probably lean toward some Mutable Instruments rig if I were to indulge the “little cool fun box”.
this is a really fun product. will definitely try it out! hope more people produce fun super small things like this.
MIDI-powered synth? 😮
That’s utterly amazing – how many other synths are MIDI bus-powered?