on the Toraiz chord cat have any of you seen a feature that allows the chords to not be played all at the same time, like a spread feature to keep them from sounding mechanical, I’m going through clips but haven’t found it yet… anyone? 
Cord spread is in some midi controllers (keystep 32, nanokey fold), I know seqtrack had chords but I’m not sure about strumming.
I must say this promotional video oozes contrivance from every pore.
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this is the second time im hearing putting a sampler request in supposedly idea/chord machine, after the digitone 2
To be fair, if this is chords based, sampling something like a piano, a synth, etc and playing it with the chords function does seem like a natural fit… And something that should be in the realm of possibility on a 550$ device
is it though? so basically any product that makes music costing a more than $500 should have a sampler?
i’m no fan of this machine but asking for sampling for every single product is a bit ridiculous at this point. same with the sampling request on the digitone 2
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Digitone has deep editable synthesis engines.
If this would be 300 I wouldn’t say anYthing, but simple mono 10s wav 44.1/16 samples (be it usb file transphere or line in) would make its core usecase better. You could use it as an “idea machine” with a sound you currently like or use in your project.
I’m not talking about deep sampling functionality, but the basic stuff that kinda is almost out of the box available on most platforms (esp, Arduino, raspberry, teensy, daisy…) and is no resource drain at all.
If it had really deep synth engines I’m okay with it not having sampling, then it could work as a sound module.
But the way it’s marketed, the Controls… Yeah, it does seem like a preset machine. I could get surprised, and it could also be an awesome sound module by itself that justifies the price.
But I’m not giving them the benefit of the doubt with that marketing and price without them shoving more.
by what metric, I could understand if everyone felt like you do and wouldn’t use the sampler on the digitone, but what about those who would use the sampler on the digitone, sampling is a prominent form of synthesis after all… It’s not that I don’t understand where you’re coming from it’s just that for someone who has no desire for sampling in those products it would seem all you’d have to do is not sample…
Personally I think sampling is an easy way to add value to those products for me personally, but I’m not trying to force people to sample
I don’t even know why people are so sensitive about sampling, I know why I am it’s because I like it but i don’t know why more sampling would be ridiculous… it’s probably not because you like it though
I think it’s the thought that not every device needs to do everything.
Everybody has some things he likes and if everybody comments to every device that it’s lacks the things… Then there is no discourse and we just won’t to feature creep every device.
This does not mean that a feature request/expectation is wrong on principle.
And in this case a basic chromatic sampler would totally make sense in the context of what was shown of the device.
I thought it has built in poly synth engines? They sound really good from the demo.
I don’t think every device needs sampling, but I also don’t always equate sampling to ‘everything’ but it does happen often, not saying that’s what you’re doing just pointing out that whenever we reach the point of talking about what is too much or everything it tends to be sampling or sample slicing…
I think it’s kind of weird, this never happens with pulse width modulation 
It has, but we have no clue how expansive, and if you can edit them. And the interface does not seem to be made for complex synth editing.
Probably a bit limited. But a lot of sweet spots?
Kind of modern day Omnichord by new french company, but not the same features…
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Yes, it seems a bit pricy for the core “synth” fetaures it has, but the form factor, the built-in speakers and the fact that it’s battery powered look very appealing to me.
Not that much battery-powered groovebox in the wild, right now, and I do know power banks exist, but not quite the same experience as bringing ONE box with evereything you need (no headphones, no cable, etc.)
Just curious - hands up who’s using complex chord extensions in their music? I was interested in this because it looks cool and I’m a sucker for a vibe, and was kinda idly thinking about saving up for it. But I just remembered that, while I understand and can play complex chord extensions, in practice I write repetitive three chord swamp monster thumping and am deeply unlikely to write something with a diminished chord in it. They had me for a second though, idk
so, it’s like a midi chord pack, but made of plastic?
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and why the hell would you want an fm groovebox to do sampling
jesus can someone assure me im not going mad here
I like the idea of the chord generation but 500$ is just milking the tame Impala aesthetics. It’s basically a chord generator with some presets
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They sure have a good marketing team. But I think chordcat looks much more interesting.
Sure orchid looks cool.