Critter & Guitari’sBrooklyn - base workshopis the source of beautiful , if border esoteric electronic instruments . Its latest box , ground on the colorful metal - and - forest design the companionship is know for , is fully programmable , so that those adorable lacquered key can make any sound you want .
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The new Organelleis perhaps the logical extension of the work C&G has been doing for years . Its playful design looks basically identical to the Pocket Piano and Bolsa Bass that came before it , with an atomic number 13 case , 25 maple keys , and some knobs for twiddlin ’ . The immediately noticeable deviation is the slight OLED display at the top , which hint at the new instrument ’s programmable guts . AsPeter Kirn neatly tote up the Organelle up over at CDM : “ The upshot is , the Organelle is like a more music - specific challenger to devices like the Raspberry Pi . ”
This is a computer for play music . The Organelle is power by an ARM Cortex A9 processor running Linux . As with the Pocket Piano and Bolsa Bass , the new computer hardware ships with some preloaded sound , but the hope this time is that masses will load their own patches onto the gadget via USB . This instrument can sound like whatever you require it to . The Organelle endure maculation written for the open source Pure Data music programming environment , and if all goes as be after , a vibrant residential district will uprise around the Organelle .
As for other glasses we should run down , the Organelle has what you would expect from a contemporary instrument : Stereo analog I / O as well as MIDI over USB . It transport later this yr for a price yet to be determine .
This scarce the first programmable piece of music computer hardware to ever get out . Shit , you could use a MacBook and a MIDI keyboard if you wanted . but what ’s always made C&G instruments attractive , besides the design . Though the sound might originate from data processor , the things do n’t palpate like computers at all . They feel like , well , instrumental role .
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