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edit : sooooooo as i guessed there is an AC power input, and a bigger screen :)

But most of all, we can observe that there are seemingly 6 outputs, or at least 6 audio jacks AND that it’s a pretty nice sandwich!

Also, it looks like there are at least 2 almost-identical (filter?) boards. It could even be 4 of them…

The SD slot would indicate that it’s some kind of a killer, multi-voiced sampler? sampling drum machine?

I’m totally addicted, almost ready to hit the “checkout” button :(

Oh my gosh! It has a sd card.
Sampler with analoug Filter?
I Don’t even care what it is – i want One!

edit: are These 6 individual outputs?
Damn. I need another new mixer soon.

My colleague here teases me that I will probably buy one even though I don’t know what it is. He is correct!

where did you buy it?

O_o

Multitimbral Polysynth?! Gotta be some polysynthing going on with all those boards.

Polyphonic version (nice!!!!) and/or Drum with Sampler capabilities !?

Woo! unlocking the mystery. Wait, WTPA 2.0 is out?

Pretty sure the wtpa2 isn’t out yetl…

@bleo oh… sorry to have diffused wrong information, I thought it was…

@titus, if it’s a 6 voice polysynth with multitimbral, it can be configured as 6 mono synths, thus, 6 outputs.

This is not a sampler.

I cannot do a DIY sampler with your requirements. I would need 1 year of work full-time, to do a sampler matching your requirements, but then it wouldn’t be a kit, just an assembled product, that I would have to sell at a hefty price because only 50 of you would buy it. No way I’m going to waste time on that.

If you want a SK-1 or Mirage-like device, we could talk more about that. But your dream of a DIY octatrack is never going to happen!

Judging from the many strange posts over the past few months, I don’t think it is a drum machine either.

I bet its a polysynth using a new and unheard of synthesis, or something long forgotten in synthesis technique. Karplus Strong? Additive? PD? Physical Modeling? A really trippy rompler thing?

I’m excited!

Solder iron already hot! When can I start?

Given it will be using ATMega still I don’t think anything massively more powerful in terms of oscillator models. Perhaps multiple ATMega chips?

I also looking for a drum machine…with 6 outputs

@HeRtEk: Midibox sequencers actualy have sd cards for pattern storage

@randy909 Problem with a DIY sampler is that it has to be cheap enough to sell as a kit but complex enough to be attractive to buy.

I don’t see (m)any failings in commercial samplers. They do everything and more, they just have gone out of fashion as you can do it all in software now with much much less bother.

I’m also amazed the “has to be analog” crowd haven’t jumped on the analog sampler bandwagon and made lots of mellotron clones :)

@6581punk: I don’t agree about the commercial samplers. I can’t name one commercial sampler that piques my interest other than octatrack. (But that doesn’t mean I’m asking for a DIY ocatatrack.)

My point was just that it seemed like Oliver took a bunch of random comments about what people would like and made those a requirements list. I hope he didn’t scrap plans for a sampler because we (I) sounded like he couldn’t sell something unless it had all those features. That would be a damn shame. I’d still buy an SK-1-like thing from him if he made one, even though it isn’t the uber-granular-through-analog-filter-thingy that I really want. I’m sure the thing I want isn’t feasible, as has been told to me repeatedly now. Still fun to daydream though.

Anyway, back to the topic… AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH WHAT IS IT???!!!

I’m still pulling for the drum machine thing. The SD card… something that it does eats up enough memory to need external storage. The MachineDrum eventually ran out of room to store sequences and data…? I could see why Mutable might come up with a poly synth that has separate mono voice outputs (stacked filter cards), but I’m hoping they’re for something more obvious like the need to mix different instruments separately. Separate voice outputs are a nice to have on a poly synth. They’re a must have on a decent drum machine.

Lol! You must be a regular on gearslutz :)

Hardware these days has to offer something I can’t have from a computer. Often that is some analog component, but it can also be a physical interface (e.g. octatrack). I want a sampler with knobs all over it and (interchangeable) analog filters dammit! Does that exist? I think not. Some of the drum-related thingies (MPC) get close in the interface department but they fall short when it comes to doing really interesting looping/scrubbing/etc. Stuff like a Kurzweil K2000 does a lot of cool things but through a shit interface (menu, jogwheel, etc). Of course neither of them have an analog filter attached. I don’t expect Oliver’s initial design to have enough knobs for me but I know Frank will fix that :)

I like weird music so that’s probably why instruments that seem cool to me don’t exist.

Whatever it is, I want it!

What if those aren’t outputs? How about some kinda crazy mixing device that mixes and modulates and fx…. Or maybe it is a kind of mellotron. Maybe the SD stores code? (probably not, but what do I know.)

They have genius mice?

What do you think “pt 1” refers to?

Part one? Part one of what?