The Wide-Screen Beauty Of A Cutesy Experimental Sampler
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2024
- I had to support the Kickstarter of Chompi - a tape-like looping SK-1 style sampler? I need this! Problem is: will I be able to play it myself? It looks so cute my youngest already called dibs. I had to make this video quickly, so she could experiment with it herself. I was surprised into what dark experimental depths it drew me, despite its utterly charming design.
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that thing is cooler than i thought initiallyt nice one!!! not that i thought it was not cool before haha, (im digging a hole)haha
Hainbach receives a happily little pink box and straightway makes the darkest ambient music…CHOMPI comes for your soul!
Ha yeah similar thing happened it video I will release next week. But then I also made 5 lush tracks with the crazy Cat-Lonbarde Srine just now - seems like I always need to do the opposite of what the instruments suggests.
CHOMPI came for my wallet. 🤑
It's just very easy to start making dark ambient - cavernous reverb and a little dissonance will take you a long way.
G.A.S.
I’m just imagining getting this for our daughter; she comes out later…‘father, I sense the emergence of ennui…’
"Such a pretty instrument!" (*the sounds of a thousand ghosts haunting an old factory, lost and confused by an afterlife of atonement*) "It's pink and it has very tactile buttons!" (*the rumor of an estranged domestic life in times of hunger*)
Beautifully put!
Turns it on, pitches everything down to -14 octaves, classic Hainbach ❤
Ahahaha yeah it do be like that
Pink & gold - great choice!!!
straight to bad gear release?
You are now listening to good gear
I just got my Chompi and started tooling around - its ambient capabilities immediately intrigued me. Lo and behold, Hainbach proved my suspicions correct! I can't wait to dive more into this little thing.
I so felt for you when the keys started playing weird
Yeah that was a bummer. I hope it’s a firmware thing.
They announced the community Discord that the new firmware update they're working on addresses several bugs and will add sample gain control. @@Hainbach
I’ve been playing with my CHOMPI for a few days now. What I’ve found to be a really interesting workflow is to layer up multiple samples in the looper, then copy the loop buffer back to the sampler buffer. That becomes a new composite instrument which you can play- clear the loop buffer and start over with this new composite instrument. I agree with a lot of your comments, particularly that all of the shift functions should have been labeled on the front panel. There needs to be a level control for sampled voice playback. I’ve also encountered the issue where voices don’t always play, which I assume is a bug. I also feel that the silly names for modes and buffers- CHOMPI, JAMMI, CUBBI- obscures their true functions and adds unnecessary confusion. Despite the limitations, I’m finding CHOMPI to be a fun, immediate, creative instrument, and absolutely capable of making real music.
That is a great tip! I had not thought of that, thank you!
Huh huh playing with his chompi …..
@@bertokleine280Oh, I get it… it’s an innuendo!
You could sample your Grandmother...
Well I am a newbie!
My knowledge of audio synthesis is thin but I get the basics of what is happening.
At first I just took a look at this thinking it was a joke.
Then I put my phones on!
It seems that they have gotten away from grey, black and silver.
Away from old fashioned knobs, patch bays and the like and turned the whole learning kerb of synths to the opposite direction.
And why not?
With the way its laid out, labelled, signed for its functions, bright colours etc they have entered the market for NEWBIES to make music not knowing the first thing about synthesis.
Is this bad?
Definitely NO.
Why spend years learning how synths work when its there on a plate for you to make music.
No...its not a toy totally revolutionary.
A kid could master this quickly.
I think of it this way.
The curtains are drawn, you are behind them and asked to listen to some synth music.
Five minutes later the curtains are opened to reveal a six year old playing a pink toy, plastic fairy tale box.
I think you will be mind blown.
I am deffo getting one.
Btw...Pink is a MAN colour don't you know.
Moog freaks watch out.
This thing is on your tail!
I can't wait to see what kind of alternative firmware we will see for this device, since it's based on the opensource Daisy platform!
Oh that makes me excited!
the flagship firmware is not open-source unfortunately, but they're planning to release a user config tool for the firmware similar to what Qu bit does
Do you now on what board it's based on? Raspberry Pi?
@@brumd Electro-Smith's Daisy boards run on STM32-based custom ARM Cortex-M7 boards in a footprint timilar to a Blackpill or Pico devboard. The Daisy platform is multi-lang though which is nice (Cpp, Arduino, Max/MSP's gen, & PD out of the box).
so a 40 dollar core wrapped in pink circuit board…. noice!
some people love cute, colorful boxes with three knobs. the fun ends when there are no prints and tons of functions you have to remember.
Looks like Barbie, sounds like the souls of the damned. I'm sold.
Barbenheimer without a doubt.
Definitely should be renamed Barbenheimer
This is way more than I expected. Instant sounds from another world with incredible reverb. Thanks.
And your jumper is also from another world 👍🙂
Thanks, its a gift from my wife! She got it second hand
@@Hainbach I changed to second hand clothes. In UK you find so much well managed charity shops with very fine clothes for ridiculous little money. I live in Germany but spend my holidays in UK.
@@lummsmusik3219 the trick is to find the ideal location for charity shops; from my experience you want an old-money town with a dying high street
so stoked, mine should be arriving soon. I wish I had jumped on the Kickstarter pink edition but ended up with the midnight black one so still hyped, aesthetically. The tape wheel is my favorite feature based on demos
I purchased one as well and man it is so much fun as a novice. Glad you backed it too!
Yes! I’ve been super curious about the Chompi. Glad you got your hands on one, great stuff!
Hi Hainbach! Love that you are covering CHOMPI. I would really urge you to explore it further, learn this as a new instrument. It has so much potential, and please do make suggestions on how to improve the firmware. CHOMPI truly feels like a community instrument being so customizable,
Only problem with it is the price which seems to be a recurring theme with cutesy gear
Not the only problem, the scammers were everywhere on Facebook while the Kickstarter was running. After reporting it 3 times to FB I gave up.
And not worth half of the price
Imagine paying 709 dollars for a 20 dollar circuit board that's open source 😂
@@koncreteto2758100% 👊🧡👍
Plus it looks infantile as shit which makes sense in our current time @koncreteto2758
should be illegal for this device to come in any color besides pink
I love your pull-over
Hainbach just became a Dungeon Synth artist with that second track.
Absolutely stunning device! i haven't been not that much invested since months. Thank you for shareing!
Hainbach I love your SWEATER!!!
Honestly, the reverb magic tickles my brain. In a good way!
I was wondering about MIDI implementation as I steer pretty much everything with a sequencer: Chompi does have MIDI implementation 😍 Currently works only on channel 1, but you can basically turn every knob via MIDI, nice!
Yeah, I’m doing a DJ scratcher setup with this sh 🤣
It would be pretty easy to have alternate keycaps with helper info if they can be popped off like a mechanical keyboard
Yeah I hope they release designs I can 3D print. This is meant to be customisable after all
The caps on the Chompi look like a custom-order windowed version of the G20 keycap profile from Signature Plastics, for those interested.
I‘ll stick to my SK-1 for now, but this is something I could really have fun with
considering your short about your daughter taking over the channel, you have a Chompi ready made for her….dont let her see it lol. My 5 year old daughter had a small keyboard for xmas, she is tinkering with the keyboard too and loves making sounds from it. My daughter would love a Chompi
She came in three times during filming and asked if she could have it now 😄
this is great! i was really excited for this glad to see you demo it!
Great demonstration.
I like the clicks.
What triggers me the most are the fact that light on the keys stays lit after you have taken your hands off them, doesn’t seem like release time, if it’s supposed to be I’m not sure it’s correct.
The way to see how Hainbach rates an instrument is in his insightful and well thought through comments but also in the shoulders. If his shoulders get a really flowing motion going on then he likes it... there was only one section of full H-flow in this video.
Hahahha everything else i have heard has been a little cutesy, you made some of this eerie like a horror film 😮 good work.
Yeah it just put me into that spot and I followed it :-)
@@Hainbach I have a Chompi coming soon, looking forward to having some fun with it and connecting it up to the Novation Circuit track's. Thanks for the review. 👍
Wow! I work with kids with disabilities and I know a few who would love to play with this!
Congrats bro, that thing is ingenious! So much gratification. Happy New Year!
It has great spec and fair play to the pair of creators. It's heavily nostalgia driven, just like so many other machines we pine for. That being said its primitive and I really think if it didn't have the square keys from yore it wouldn't have got started. It is cool though
Chompi: It will sample your soul.
"Recording? Playing?"
"N̵͙͌ͅȎ̷̱̞o̵͓̰̍͝ö̵͖́o̶̖̔"
"Okay." 😅
Wow. Such a great video.
That's awesome hardware.
You definitely have a gift with all these machines. Such awesome sounds.
That is one epic little sampler/ keyboard thingie & makes those epic sounds & some gnarly sounds too! 😊👍
Pippi 😊
excellent video Hainbach, love the exploratory approach to the machine, I just receive my Chompi and can't wait to dive in, sounds huge!
I have been looking for a thing like this for some time! Sounds amazing! I hope they make a version 2, a little more intuitive / user friendly, preferably with "normal keys" indstead of the drum machine interface. Then I would definitely buy it!
Beautiful sounds
Awesome inspired audio around the 15 minute mark. It's pretty/very cool what you're able to come up with in such short order. I wonder what this does more than what you can do with OP-1 or C+G Organelle compared to the Chompi? Heck, just combine them all and see what that does, and throw in the iPad Audiothings processor of your choice.
Wow, it sounds just like Hainbach! I wonder how that happened ;)
I must admit, I really appreciate your honesty about the slightly janky UI, which is something I always felt the promo videos glossed over. I also know how much you love slowed-down tape, and the interpolation on this is great, so I wasn't at all surprised when your first thing was to slow it way down 😆
I find samplers like this really cute, but for some reason my love of hardware instruments just doesn't extend to samplers. I guess sampling is just so much more chaotic with so many more dimensions to it, that I feel lost without a proper computer to map out what I'm doing. (See all your issues getting layers in the right order and so on on here.)
Ooooohhh! I stumbled across their first TH-cam video when they released it! Been looking forward to this! :)
I wish I had the money to pledge for that, I wanted one so bad, but I still pledged for the windbreaker.
Yeah I dithered myself until the regular edition was sold out
Thanks for this video. It all verifies almost all of my issues I have with my Chompi and hopefully firmware updates and new faceplates can solve most of them.
Interesting instrument 👍 Didn‘t know before…
I love your sweater, very moody. Reminds me of taking the subway at night.
Sound's great ! 🙏🏻
Took me a long to get use to the UI, but I’m having a lot of fun with it now. Wish it had some quantization. Maybe it does, I haven’t tried midi on it yet.
I have neither - I am not much of a MIDI guy.
A soundtrack to a Haunted Tokyo. Brilliant.
Suh dude! Thanks for the cool demo and review! Seems like a neat company!
Wow, I'm very impressed! Does Hasbro know it escaped? I want that!
Shit, you’re so talented! Your videos always make me want to play with my synthesizers.
Ein Barbie Chompie for Hainbach! 🤪
Der Film war super! Und nun bekommt Chompi erstmal meine Tochter Rosa als Dauerleihgabe :-)
The design is so dope!
A printable overlay for the keys, to know the functions, would work. Maybe a set of printed keys with functions on the front of the keys would be a better solution.
Yeah 3D printer will come in handy here
Front printing would be great tbh.
@@Hainbach I tell what might also work that crafty people might have access to - laser engraving. Do a few tests on similar keys/plastics, and get engraving.
You get to preserve your injection molded keys and get your functions engraved onto the front side of your keys as certain types of 3D printing can be flawed and not suited to smaller items like keys.
Nothing against the company, there are much better options for the same or a little more.
I agree with you about the lack of labeling on the FN keys - why not! That said, for the first three days I had it I totally missed that this info is printed on the back of the device, hah
Why is it so hard to find a hardware synth that can do the real-time tape speed manipulation (fast, slow, reverse) as this device does? Such an amazing feature for ambient and soundscapes. The OP-1 can do a little of this, but not as flexible. The closest I could find in my search was the Instruo Lubadh or Make Noise Morphagene, but that’s eurorack ofc. Anyway, I bought a Chompi. I think it’s unique.
Interesting aesthetic, sorta Fisher-Price meets Mattel meets Critter & Guitari. Looks cute but I bet it's got some interesting and hackable hardware under the hood. Either way, great dark ambient vibes
It is based on Daisy, so alternate firmwares should be doable
@@Hainbach Cool! Not familiar with the Daisy micro-controller. Assuming it's similar to the Arduino or Teensy.
@@BottleMakesMusicsimilar but the platform is built specifically for DSP
I used to rock the Bram Bos Tuareg way back in the day
Its expensive. In Australia over $900 before freight. Sorry, but there are many other things out there at this price point which would be far better.
You know, I reckon the best hardware unit to do the sample, fx, loop, resample and build a performance is the korg microsampler.
Always curious about that one
@@Hainbach I have just tried it on my microsampler and I can confirm it is perfect, well worth a try. Although it ain’t pink.
I was gonna sell it but not anymore.
I created a template within the (now discontinued) lemur app on the iPad that controls it, massively expanded its capabilities.
cant wait until mine gets in!!!
Worth the wait it was for me!
Oh, another tip- are you aware that you can record live audio input directly into the looper?
I only read about it in the "long" manual. Good to hear it works!
I didn't know Dave Grohl was doing synth reviews
That is the most flattering thing I have heard here
I have all kinds of hardware samplers already but obviously the only way I am going to get into and be a heavy hitter in the Toycore Scene for 2024 is to get one of these even though I already have a Microsampler. Wish me luck, I guess.
Godspeed!
oh a new toy to play with yay
It is funny: I have 5 daughters and the nickname of the last one has been CHOMPI since she was born almost 18 years ago! What a coincidence!
The look of the mascot reminds me of Mister Frundles from Rick and Morty. Is this keyboard gonna bite me?
happy new year man
Happy new year to you too
that is an insanely fly sweater. it reminds me of the plumage of the wood ducks here. please tell me i can buy it somewhere!
I wish I could but it’s a second hand thing my wife gifted to me 🙁
what a sweetie of a keyboard
1:08 one button sounds better than anything i've ever heard
Yeah the effects are absolute masterpieces. They could release these as a pedal easily and it would be a hit.
@@Hainbach does this sampler has better effects than 404?
Maybe I'm missing something. Are there many more features than a lush reverb, what looks like a tape/lofi and recording/pitching a sample up and down? At this price point why not just get a Digitakt? I like the Quickstart Guide but the fact that Hainbach is consulting the manual so often is not exactly a good sign from a design standpoint. This is definitely my contender for Worst Gear of 2023 considering the functions to price ratio as a start.
The tape style looper is pretty much awesome.
I made a whole album on the Digitakt hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/old-suns but then sold it. I don’t like the MPC style of working myself.
I mean I understand wanting a different work flow, but there are definitely other weird things about this. It seems very confused on what it wants to be.
A future jam with AudioPilz on his pink barbie TD-3?
If I get to mix in my pink Lyra and Bebe Cheri then yes!
@@Hainbach hahaha!
the sounds at 4:00 sound like Discreet Music by Eno really gorgeous sounds from something that looks like a upscale fisherprice toy lol nice.
End of video I’m getting 1
Oh I love this style of commenting!
HAINBACH!!!!!!!!!! Goes Cutesy Wit' It. Calling in the Whales? Very Koolz.
Make 600 pink Barbie Ltd Editions, and everyone else has to settle for a sad black one at $599 a pop that's not even in stock yet.
When did every musical intrument mfr become masters of marketing? *Props to Hainbach for his honest review*
I dont like the interface… No labels, no screen… I will give the Kiviak WOFI a try.
Yeah I am excited for that one too!
I think I summoned two grumpy spirits while watching this video, how do i undo?
This looks fun, but sort of expensive for what it does and has some unusual design choices. There is definitely a segment that likes electromechanical typing keyboards. I might consider this once the OS firms up and goes through a few more debugging iterations and more user-requested features are added. One mechanical bit that I would be concerned about is the little switch to the left of the Chompi button. It looks like it may be getting flipped many times during a session.
Gimmick. Just good reverb and delay. Better buy Hologram pedal and use a more controllable sampler. Imho.
I almost backed this and now I'm glad I didn't. Sounds like he's trying to talk himself into liking it
I cost one hundred thousand dollars to play the music in one minute
I wish i was as loved as much as that op1 😅
Wie war das erst beim Kollegen die Barbie Edition der TD3 😝 aber Chompi hat mich echt berührt 🍀👍
German man reads English manual - 2024 (colorized)
Ah man I want one!
Down pitching sounds like when the PS2 wasn't able to load a game
~recording playing~ (proceeds to make Vangelis music)
As is tradition
0:59 “Magic.” 😳
There is a classic skate video called “Chomp on this” would be neat to make sounds with this from skate board sounds
I got the black one. It's super fun. I'm still learning it.
Great vid too.
I am happy with my chompi, but my First Reaktion was also §@€%@@ fok why Not Print it on the Damm machine……really dislike learning colors……
Sounds like a baby Mellotron on acid.