The CHOMPI is a very fun project.. have considered building one myself over the years, but I think I have a bit more motivation to build a FundamentalFrequency LMN-3, which is in a similar form factor but is, imho, a bit more open ended with regards to what it can be used for ..
Either way the time has come for open source projects of this nature and form factor .. the world tires of overpriced junk from boutique vendors, and wants more DIY music making toys for the kids to rock out ..
It was priced very high, even for a boutique musical instrument. There are a lot of samplers on the market on (or even under) that price point and some simple ones that cost a fraction of it.
I already have both of those, a Bastl Microgranny, Polyend Tracker, and Polyend Play. So I really don't need another sampler. But it does look fun and has a unique workflow.
That's the competition I was talking about: SP-404, (used) OctaTrack, MPC live or sample, EP-133 KO 2. All cost about the same or less and do a heck of a lot more.
It’s always possible. There’s definitely been a market for Eurorack clones of open designs like Mutable Instruments modules.
The main thing would be how you market it since one of the provisions is that you can’t use that trademarked name, and I imagine that would apply to marketing it, not just the product name itself.
I liked this instrument but could never get one. Actually I was bombarded by scam accounts on Facebook(no longer a user) pretending to be Chompy. I'll be lookign for a used one.
Wildly, severely not, honestly. They're going about retail second-hand on Reverb, with thin supply. You might do better having a look in the Chase Bliss Audio Discord.
That's pretty much what I would expect from Chase Bliss. They make very cool, high quality, and often niche audio products. Small production runs made in North America come with a high price tag.
I'm not saying that you've clearly never built and shipped a hardware device as a small team in North America; maybe you have, and maybe that's what you do all day.
However, I have noticed that the only people who look at a product like Chompi and think "overpriced" are people who have never built and shipped a hardware device. Perhaps you'll be the one to prove me wrong.
I'm not saying that Chompi wasn't expensive, or that you couldn't get a mass-produced device like a Roland SP-404 for less on Reverb. I am saying that that is not a fair comparison, however.
Oh cool, I haven't checked on it in quite a long time.
I ended up getting them a Dato Duo, which we enjoy quite a bit. Got that for $229, price on it is way up now. Been eyeing the Dato Drum, but it's pretty steep at $500.
chompi is based on the daisy platform https://daisy.audio/. I've got a daisy pod that I've been building a my own sampler on lately. The tooling and documentation is a bit janky to get started with, but the platform is pretty cool. They just released some new dev kits as well. I've had a blast building a fully-featured sampler with a 1.5" oled screen and two button, two potentiometers, and one encoder.
I’ve adapted it to run in your DAW as a VST, Audio Unit, and AAX plugin for Pro Tools.
Check it out: https://www.temeculadsp.com/nibbi
Code: https://github.com/temeculadsp/nibbi
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6m-woOQfqc
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