These Portable Music Machines Deliver The Studio Essentials

minijam studio, created by the makers of Patchblocks, is a set of portable music machines that include a drum machine, a wavetable synthesizer, an analog filter, a mixer and a speaker. A distinguishing feature of these mini-instruments is that they run off of a portable battery, enabling users to jam and make music wherever they go.

tek.waves – Wavetable Synthesizer

• 16 fully automatable sound parameters divided into 4 pages
• 4 wave table banks
• arpeggiator with hold, octave range and arp mode settings
• 4 patterns with up to 128 steps per pattern
• scale select, and 2 octave keyboard within selected scale
• global delay send effect
• save patterns and automation to flash
• up to 12h battery life

tek.drum – Drum Machine

• 8 Drum-Synthesis tracks with 4 parameters per track
• 8 Patterns with 16 steps
• automation and parameter locks of all 32 parameters
• pattern chaining up to 128 steps
• global delay send effect
• save patterns and automation to flash
• up to 12h battery life

tek.filter – Analog Filter

• audio input and output
• 2 pole resonant low-pass / band-pass filter
• up to 40h battery life

.hub – Mixer and Recorder

• 3 mono channel input with sync trigger output per channel (stereo cable)
• digital encoder and display to set tempo
• 44.1kHz 16bit .wav recording to micro SD card
• up to 8h battery life

minijam studio has raised more than a third of its pledge goal on Kickstarter, with a month left until its estimated May 2017 delivery. Each machine is priced, quite modestly in our opinion, at €45, and you can grab the entire kit of instruments for €130.

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