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Does anyone have a good list of small, handheld, battery powered mini synths, grooveboxes, effects and other noise-makers? (lemmy.ml)
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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I agree with @segfault that the Syntakt (and Digitakt) fit the bill very nicely. The first two weeks I owned the Syntakt, I spent the whole time exploring it from my couch.

I gotta say, while the S-1 is technically a "rehashed" SH-101, it's a phenomenal device and I feel that description does it a slight disservice. Four voices means you can do some great pads, and the waveform chop function really pushes it into new territory.