I’ve preordered a Dirtywave M8 which seems like an awesome piece of gear and it’s got me really excited at the prospect of using interesting dedicated hardware machines that I can take to the park or mess with on the sofa.

The obvious ones I’ve come across so far are:

  • Korg Volca range
  • Roland mini synths and aira compact ranges
  • Teenage Engineering OP and POs

But these all seem a little uninteresting to me and just rehashed tiny versions of older gear and/or aimed at lo-fi producers.

Some less obvious ones that have my attention are:

  • Monome Norns
  • 1010music lemondrop, fireball & razzmatazz (not battery powered but easily powered by a USB powerbank)
  • Bastl microgranny and kastl
  • Korg NTS-1
  • Korg Monotrons
  • Audiothingies Micromonsta 2 (again not battery powered but can be via powerbank)

Are there any you know of that fit the bill?

  • risibledog@waveform.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Critter & Guitari Organelle definitely fits the bill. And the M model even has a speaker and can run on 4 AA batteries[1].

    One of my favorite instruments tbh.

    1. for kind of a surprisingly long time if they’re good quality ones… but it’s also the first time I’ve ever really experienced the difference in quality–bad ones drain in minutes! ↩︎

    • risibledog@waveform.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      also just want to say that I am embarrassingly stoked to find out that lemmy supports this kind of markdown footnote… in case anyone is interested, you make them like this:

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