Tasty Chips Electronics has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund production of the GR-1 Granular Synthesizer.
The GR-1 is a hardware polyphonic granular synthesizer, capable of creating textures, characteristic sounds, drones, soundscapes and pads.
Features:
- The GR-1 is massively polyphonic: 128 grains per voice, times 16 voices = 2048 grains in parallel.
- 32 bit mixing and a HIFI stereo DAC for rendition.
- 7″ full-color display.
- It can use (USB or DIN) MIDI keyboards, USB sticks/disks, USB audio interfaces, and even PC keyboards.
- CV interfaces for integration with Modular (Eurorack) systems.
- On-board controls and MIDI connectivity make it easy to manipulate sound.
- Knobs and sliders allow all granular parameters to be changed in seconds.
- The GR-1 also allows stand-alone operation: No MIDI keyboard required! The GR-1 has buttons and sliders to create 4 note chords or drones.
- Built-in headphone amp.
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Pricing and Availability
The GR-1 Granular Synthesizer is available to project backers for €849, about US $1,020.
BaBoom!!! Kickstarter up!
Dam, both early bird and 1st batch sold out!!! Time Zones have screwed me once again!!! 2nd batch isnt that bad.
An up-to-spec, modern-looking and very exciting product! 🙂
This is one thing im screaming for in my performance set up
Its out of my budget. But thats just because im cheap
I really hope thia product moves successfully looks great guys
yeah I am too cheap too – I wonder if you could get some patchblocks and make some approximation of it…
To me, half the fun of granular synthesis is granularizing live audio. I wonder, does this have an audio input?
Well that was fast! Missed out on an early bird.
If this reaches it’s maximum goal it becomes multi-timbral…come on guys lets make this happen!