GR-1 Live sampling

Quick video that demonstrates the GR-1's live sampling capabilities. It records, applies granular processing and plays back directly. Input sound is streamed from a laptop and input via a USB sound card (a cheap Behringer UFO202 in this case). All granular synthesis options are in effect, and allow stuff like scratching, time stretch, comb filtering, harmonizing (using the play buttons and sliders). This is a remake of an earlier vid, but with proper audio.
Music by Holon (Mark Rydyger) / mark-r-3 . Track "Awake To A New Reality". Many thanks! Make sure you buy this artist's album. It's terrific! holon-subatomi...

[@ColossusBall]

I dont understand why an audio in jack wasn't the most obvious thing to put on this thing.

[@ignacedhont9816]

Indeed.. workflow is important to me, so this was a dealbreaker in my case. Otherwise love this thing

[@charliesoandso]

Wow, that's some tight DSP and kernel work there! I wanna be like you guys when I grow up! ...said the 31 year old.

[@sebastianelijah2963]

this live sampling seriously is soothing to my brain. need to buy!

[@brianreilly6545]

A hardware granular synth would fill a HUGE void in the synth world.

[@honeydisco806]

i hope they make one

[@bonwowo]

isnt it already?:)

[@dankefurnichts]

i loved this machine from the day it was announced. Maybe this or next year i gonna go and buy it

[@serdarsaydan]

Wooooow, Great Performance. I love my gr 1.

[@dawlessstrolling5306]

Fan-tas-tic to see this piece of gear. Just discovered it and never was so excited for a piece of gear. Well, not often that much. Begin 2000's to 2009 I made shitloads of tracks in FL Studio, and my favourite plugin was.... the Granular synth! Made totally out of this world soundscapes / pads / fx with it, it was just so versatile and I even gave indivual drum sounds extra character with it. Was looking around for a polysynth, more into hardware at the moment, and getting a bit bored after too much KZbin-analog-polysynth-action I remembered granular synthesis. "Is there any hardware around??" And YES it can be played on a keyboard too!! I think this piece of gear (and likely some likewise ones) will be more and more popular getting used by electronic musicians over the years...

[@f.o.r.m7545]

I love it! The things i hope to are: Dry,wet A deep reverb Sample rec. start treshold, or start stop via midi!! Pls!

[@TastyChips]

We'll consider these. Thanks!

[@domeniquexander_]

dry/wet would be great 🔥

[@lab-by-the-sea]

is it working withe the op1 aus interface? would be great....

[@mathieuciulla7601]

what's the sample ? pad sounding like a Spooky Black track

[@TastyChips]

Holon.. the guy is amazing: holon-subatomic-audio.bandcamp.com/

[@EnCrypticon23x]

Wow! Never seen or heard of this before. What a happy find on KZbin! :D This is something I could get behind.

[@skyreadersociety6183]

probably the only hardware sampler out there, that's really worth buying. Octatrack is cool, but not polyphonic and really not intuitive. Maybe an Akai S612 .... ?!? Crazy how long it took to have useful machine like this. Thanks to Tasty Chips.

[@jimmypierson1980]

I mean can it really not be a granular sampler ? Like you can't just use it as a sampler without granular right ?

[@nicholasmarshall6361]

@@jimmypierson1980 sort of.. you can get the original sample to play if you dial in the grain size, density and pitch but it's really more suited to abstracting the source rather than re-triggering the original sample. You might want this AND an old school SP, or Maschine or whatever..

[@fiddlestickzmuzik]

really nice, and now I know where to get them direct it's time to start saving up..

[@jonnytheponny5753]

Hello, could you please state, what has been sampled here, what track? thanks!

[@earx23]

Music by Holon (Mark Rydyger) soundcloud.com/mark-r-3. Track "Awake To A New Reality". Many thanks! Make sure you buy this artist's album. It's terrific! holon-subatomic-audio.bandcamp.com/

[@sequen-cielscientific]

I have one and many future discoveries in the world of infinite wave frequency. this revolutionary war machine plunges us into a new world of synthesizer...

[@willswitchcraft]

still sitting on the fence about this piece of gear......very tempted, as I find almost everything I hear from it to be Mesmerizing...........an original tool

[@nusense808]

great stuff! can you sample some vocals for next video?

[@TastyChips]

Sure, or.. Hhmm. we'd need to find a singer ;)

[@davidlarkin852]

does not work this way for me at all , I even have the same sound card bought as a result of seeing this video , I get no inout at all

[@TastyChips]

Curious.. We have the UFO202 over here so we can try and fire it up again.. Stay tuned.

[@BeauSkowron]

So scary… so good

[@Kittyspit562]

does the GR-1 sample in stereo?

[@earx23]

When playing it randomly pans a mono sample to stereo, depending on settings. Everything loaded or sampled is internally stored as mono. But stay tuned for updates.

[@earx23]

@sbmphr If you want software, that's fine. If not, tell me how to pan 1200 stereo grains in real-time on embedded hardware.

[@earx23]

@sbmphr Yes, that's a good proposition actually. The next problem is quickly encountered though, also the RAM requirement is doubled. Hence, we think it's wise to wait until the hardware is properly upgraded. There are SBC's that offer 2 or even 4GB RAM these days.. although they are not cheap. And there are compatibility issues to consider. But anyway.. some day some day..

[@dramadestroyer825]

What does stereo mean in this context, I’m new to music

[@DJKawonOfficial]

i must have this

[@bloodyshrine1369]

They should’ve thought about these editing capabilities with mpc’s

[@donpoulos]

Wanted to get one but this video changed my mind. Seems great but.....

[@TastyChips]

What if we throw in a free C64, Jack?

[@eddy_sonik]

👍I LOVE ! 💙⚪❤

[@boobooshooboo5977]

I would by this faster than you could say likerty split if it had audio input sample capabilities As all I want to mangle the hell out of is other hardware

[@TastyChips]

We're working on built-in audio input. Not clear when this model will be released, though. In any case, hooking up a class-compliant USB sound card is quite effortless.

[@brianreilly6545]

Tasty Chips a direct audio input would be superb!

[@quelgianchecercavi]

@@TastyChips can't see the time you'll release the Rev2 with built-in audio inputs! Just one device and less wiring around. The GR1 is a piece of art (love the nuclear powerplant aesthetics, too!), I'm sure the next one will be even more great! Keep it going!

[@TastyChips]

@@quelgianchecercavi It's quite Cherenkov with a lot of particles, yes ;-)

[@quelgianchecercavi]

@@TastyChips blue shift is always a cool shift.

[@lancepage1914]

I really like this instrument, but I think the price of it is insanity. Anyhow I will keep watching videos to see if the features really justify its worth.

[@TastyChips]

Thanks for the interest. We have gotten a lot of comments about the price. but for us it's absolutely necessary to maintain this price point, both to sustain ourselves and to develop our product family further. For you as a customer it's a different story.. One person may choose to buy, while other just use their ipad + 10$ app, or uses cracks on their old PC. We're ok with that. The GR-1 was developed because generic platforms (pc, tablet) don't have the best human interface.. The GR-1 offers direct, clear and very precise controls for the most important parameters, and this extends into easily making drones all with the on-board controls.

[@MUNRO13]

Tasty Chips Ignore the idiots moaning about the price. They have no idea.

[@pjm8779]

Price is fine. I own one. A really inspiring piece of gear and a great foray into granular synthesis.

[@SKIPPEROzz]

Where the music is? It's looks like a destroyer.

[@Eli_B3000]

This is just one aspect of the uses for the unit. Others are more musical, watch some of the other videos.

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

It’s really cool and I appreciate what it can do.... but you guys really need to step it up: 1. Stereo Sampling 2. Filters... where are the Filters? 3. Way more LFOs and EGs for shaping 4. A Mod Matrix 5. FX Beef it up and if it costs 2-3k then so be it.... but it needs so much more.

[@TastyChips]

1. Considering it.. in a follow-up. maybe 2. Already there. Multimode, in fact. 3. This is what the 2 CV's inputs are for, EG's.. maybe in a follow-up 4. Already there. 9 sources x 11 destinations. 5. Already there. Please take some time to read the manual for the full specifications in the latest manual: www.tastychips.nl/gr-1-downloads/

[@Massproduce201]

Stereo sampling in a follow up.. do you mean update or whole new piece of hardware??

[@Eli_B3000]

@@Massproduce201 It would have to be new hardware.

[@anonymous_friend]

RTFM before you complain. Tell him Tasty 😂

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

It still doesn’t have EGs and LFOs which are the most basic building block of synthesis… “CV inputs” a “solution” for that - not a chance, that’s completely inflexible to force the user to go analogue for such a basic synth feature imo.