This looks kinda cool
Though, it maybe seems a touch pricey?
Chompi Club will arrive on Kickstarter on the 28th of March, 2023, for an early bird pre-order price of $499 (retail $599).
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I saw it and immediately assumed itād be like $900. Teenage engineering set a terrible example that everyone else is following now.
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$599ā¦ get real
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What the hellā¦
When I saw this for the first time I though something like āOh, it looks kinda cheap-ish, nice of them to make musical stuff more affordable and popularā. Then I kinda forgot about it for few years and now I checked the pricesā¦
I saw Chompiās ad yesterday or maybe a day before. It looks nice, but again, everyone already said here that itās not 600$ niceā¦
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VERY cool! So like Arbhar + external keyboard? Or somethingā¦
Whatās the price? Ohā¦ retail $599. Doesnāt seem that bad honestly, considering what modules like Arbhar and Morphagene cost. Dunno, but it seems attractive. I donāt think itās grossly overpriced if the build quality is good, which seems so at a glance.
Someone somewhere mentioned they thought it was similar to the Organelle, which seems to be $495 - $595, so I guess its at least somewhere competitive (although I know nothing about the Organelle, Iām taking their word for it)
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I dunno. How hard could have been to make the keyboard more like a āproperā musical keyboard?
Saw this earlier, too. Iā¦'d like to have this, yes, but compared to what Elektron sells for ā¬$800 to make sample-based music, Iād get a toy. A cool toy, butā¦ phew.
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Every since I heard the joke, āTeenage Engineering, really more of a lifestyle brand than just an instrument companyā, I thought, āohhhh, that makes sense nowā.
Though people seem to do some good work with the OP-1, Iāve never got my hands on one and canāt figure out what the cost is all about.
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Itās a machined metal enclosure with some keyboard switches and a Teensy (probably). Nothing warranting that price.
Exactly. For $800 I could get a flagship multi-out drum machine with pristine XoX engines, a bulletproof sampler capable of almost every thing you could possibly want to do to a sample, a full on daw in a box with a multi point touch screen, or a full sized synth with aftertouch.
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Eurorack tends to be a more expensive format to build in. The circuitry required to integrate a little digital computer into a Ā±12v dc/ac environment ends up being complicated and expensive, and to be honest both those modules are sold at a pretty premium anyway.
I dare someone skilled to reimplement this workflow with affordable DAW and plugins and share with everyone. Because that is how it should be, without āmagicā.
Will this device be craved for in 30 years?
Organelle has a whole community of people making apps for it (like Norns or VCV kinda). The Hardware is not open-source, but the software is (and mainly based on PD if I understand correctly). With this Chompi at least for launch, you get a single app and it does what it does and nothing more. Maybe that will open up in the future, but I wouldnāt pay full price until I see that part in action.
Also, worth noting where their priorities are, the pink edition costs $100 more than the black edition, even though that is the only difference.
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Iām sure itās possible in Ableton or Bitwig.
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