Distropolis Goods has introduced the Phantasmal Force, a 16 button + 1 knob micro MIDI controller.
It’s designed to be very small – pocket size – and to be useful for desktop setups where space can be a premium. It’s made to order, so you can customize button colors.
Features:
- Very compact
- 16 programmable, clicky, tactile switches
- 1 programmable knob (functions based on the last button pressed)
- OLED display
- Note, chord (three note, user definable), CC, transport and Program Change via MIDI
- Various presets including random chord generation
- MIDI out over USB C and TRS-A
- 26 save slots
- Configurable default settings
- RGB LED status indicator
- USB powered
- Printed manual
Video Demos:
Pricing and Availability:
The Phantasmal Force is available now for $125 USD.
Slick! Ordered. What caught my imagination was the ability to set up “compressed randomness,” so the buttons send random velocities between min and max values you set. That should be fun with my WVR sample player, which supports 32 velocity layers. The Phantasmal Force developer also wrote the popular Pixels script for the Monome Norns.
candy-like buttons yum!
nice i made one for my ipad romps around parkjams and small apartment sessions for impc etc. but that was 5 years ago. still works and also made a bluetooth version with blufeather board. its sweet to hold drum pad in your hands, easy for people to get into. button selection is key.
Sinapse@Toronto