The Wide-Screen Beauty Of A Cutesy Experimental Sampler

[@Hainbach]

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[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

that thing is cooler than i thought initiallyt nice one!!! not that i thought it was not cool before haha, (im digging a hole)haha

[@jasonnicholas4336]

Hainbach receives a happily little pink box and straightway makes the darkest ambient music…CHOMPI comes for your soul!

[@Hainbach]

Ha yeah similar thing happened it video I will release next week. But then I also made 5 lush tracks with the crazy Cat-Lonbarde Srine just now - seems like I always need to do the opposite of what the instruments suggests.

[@ytJnC]

CHOMPI came for my wallet. 🤑

[@drpibisback7680]

It's just very easy to start making dark ambient - cavernous reverb and a little dissonance will take you a long way.

[@ElectroPercs]

G.A.S.

[@jasonnicholas4336]

I’m just imagining getting this for our daughter; she comes out later…‘father, I sense the emergence of ennui…’

[@retsof]

Turns it on, pitches everything down to -14 octaves, classic Hainbach ❤

[@Hainbach]

Ahahaha yeah it do be like that

[@kovokkovariki]

"Such a pretty instrument!" (*the sounds of a thousand ghosts haunting an old factory, lost and confused by an afterlife of atonement*) "It's pink and it has very tactile buttons!" (*the rumor of an estranged domestic life in times of hunger*)

[@Hainbach]

Beautifully put!

[@AudioPilz]

Pink & gold - great choice!!!

[@afellowguy1933]

straight to bad gear release?

[@p3rc1muz19u3]

You are now listening to good gear

[@sspiderandbee]

I just got my Chompi and started tooling around - its ambient capabilities immediately intrigued me. Lo and behold, Hainbach proved my suspicions correct! I can't wait to dive more into this little thing.

[@deastman2]

I’ve been playing with my CHOMPI for a few days now. What I’ve found to be a really interesting workflow is to layer up multiple samples in the looper, then copy the loop buffer back to the sampler buffer. That becomes a new composite instrument which you can play- clear the loop buffer and start over with this new composite instrument. I agree with a lot of your comments, particularly that all of the shift functions should have been labeled on the front panel. There needs to be a level control for sampled voice playback. I’ve also encountered the issue where voices don’t always play, which I assume is a bug. I also feel that the silly names for modes and buffers- CHOMPI, JAMMI, CUBBI- obscures their true functions and adds unnecessary confusion. Despite the limitations, I’m finding CHOMPI to be a fun, immediate, creative instrument, and absolutely capable of making real music.

[@Hainbach]

That is a great tip! I had not thought of that, thank you!

[@bertokleine280]

Huh huh playing with his chompi …..

[@deastman2]

@@bertokleine280Oh, I get it… it’s an innuendo!

[@GizzyDillespee]

You could sample your Grandmother...

[@petercane6376]

Well I am a newbie! My knowledge of audio synthesis is thin but I get the basics of what is happening. At first I just took a look at this thinking it was a joke. Then I put my phones on! It seems that they have gotten away from grey, black and silver. Away from old fashioned knobs, patch bays and the like and turned the whole learning kerb of synths to the opposite direction. And why not? With the way its laid out, labelled, signed for its functions, bright colours etc they have entered the market for NEWBIES to make music not knowing the first thing about synthesis. Is this bad? Definitely NO. Why spend years learning how synths work when its there on a plate for you to make music. No...its not a toy totally revolutionary. A kid could master this quickly. I think of it this way. The curtains are drawn, you are behind them and asked to listen to some synth music. Five minutes later the curtains are opened to reveal a six year old playing a pink toy, plastic fairy tale box. I think you will be mind blown. I am deffo getting one. Btw...Pink is a MAN colour don't you know. Moog freaks watch out. This thing is on your tail!

[@RedMeansRecording]

I so felt for you when the keys started playing weird

[@Hainbach]

Yeah that was a bummer. I hope it’s a firmware thing.

[@cchoge]

They announced the community Discord that the new firmware update they're working on addresses several bugs and will add sample gain control. @@Hainbach

[@lummsmusik3219]

This is way more than I expected. Instant sounds from another world with incredible reverb. Thanks.

[@lummsmusik3219]

And your jumper is also from another world 👍🙂

[@Hainbach]

Thanks, its a gift from my wife! She got it second hand

[@lummsmusik3219]

@@Hainbach I changed to second hand clothes. In UK you find so much well managed charity shops with very fine clothes for ridiculous little money. I live in Germany but spend my holidays in UK.

[@tristan_mcdonald]

​@@lummsmusik3219 the trick is to find the ideal location for charity shops; from my experience you want an old-money town with a dying high street

[@_DRMR_]

I can't wait to see what kind of alternative firmware we will see for this device, since it's based on the opensource Daisy platform!

[@Hainbach]

Oh that makes me excited!

[@vicemayorskeletonmeat]

the flagship firmware is not open-source unfortunately, but they're planning to release a user config tool for the firmware similar to what Qu bit does

[@brumd]

Do you now on what board it's based on? Raspberry Pi?

[@goonfish]

​@@brumd Electro-Smith's Daisy boards run on STM32-based custom ARM Cortex-M7 boards in a footprint timilar to a Blackpill or Pico devboard. The Daisy platform is multi-lang though which is nice (Cpp, Arduino, Max/MSP's gen, & PD out of the box).

[@chipchasm]

so a 40 dollar core wrapped in pink circuit board…. noice!

[@rjadamz9117]

That composition you began creating around the 14:00 minute sounds beautifully intense. I can imagine in multiple scenes of a movie or even documentary

[@indigosnow_]

so stoked, mine should be arriving soon. I wish I had jumped on the Kickstarter pink edition but ended up with the midnight black one so still hyped, aesthetically. The tape wheel is my favorite feature based on demos

[@HotStrange]

Yes! I’ve been super curious about the Chompi. Glad you got your hands on one, great stuff!

[@davidchiasson563]

I purchased one as well and man it is so much fun as a novice. Glad you backed it too!

[@PepeandtheBandits]

Hahahha everything else i have heard has been a little cutesy, you made some of this eerie like a horror film 😮 good work.

[@Hainbach]

Yeah it just put me into that spot and I followed it :-)

[@PepeandtheBandits]

@@Hainbach I have a Chompi coming soon, looking forward to having some fun with it and connecting it up to the Novation Circuit track's. Thanks for the review. 👍

[@thorstenstreckbaum791]

Hi Hainbach! Love that you are covering CHOMPI. I would really urge you to explore it further, learn this as a new instrument. It has so much potential, and please do make suggestions on how to improve the firmware. CHOMPI truly feels like a community instrument being so customizable,

[@0oNoiseo0]

Absolutely stunning device! i haven't been not that much invested since months. Thank you for shareing!

[@g3cd]

I was wondering about MIDI implementation as I steer pretty much everything with a sequencer: Chompi does have MIDI implementation 😍 Currently works only on channel 1, but you can basically turn every knob via MIDI, nice!

[@enriquepageperez1305]

Yeah, I’m doing a DJ scratcher setup with this sh 🤣

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

Great demonstration.

[@glenesis]

Congrats bro, that thing is ingenious! So much gratification. Happy New Year!

[@paulbogan3400]

Looks like Barbie, sounds like the souls of the damned. I'm sold.

[@fernandoherranz4095]

Barbenheimer without a doubt.

[@NoName-o5q1l]

Definitely should be renamed Barbenheimer

[@averagepainter]

some people love cute, colorful boxes with three knobs. the fun ends when there are no prints and tons of functions you have to remember.

[@dreamdealer]

excellent video Hainbach, love the exploratory approach to the machine, I just receive my Chompi and can't wait to dive in, sounds huge!

[@VacancyOfDisco]

this is great! i was really excited for this glad to see you demo it!

[@Veptis]

I always wait till I am at my computer with headphones before I watch your videos. It pays off every single time.

[@Hainbach]

Indeed! I try to level videos so it works on phones, but it’s way better with headphones

[@err_rawr]

I like the clicks. What triggers me the most are the fact that light on the keys stays lit after you have taken your hands off them, doesn’t seem like release time, if it’s supposed to be I’m not sure it’s correct.

[@TheFanOrTheMask]

considering your short about your daughter taking over the channel, you have a Chompi ready made for her….dont let her see it lol. My 5 year old daughter had a small keyboard for xmas, she is tinkering with the keyboard too and loves making sounds from it. My daughter would love a Chompi

[@Hainbach]

She came in three times during filming and asked if she could have it now 😄

[@PocketOperatorGuy]

Wow. Such a great video. That's awesome hardware. You definitely have a gift with all these machines. Such awesome sounds.

[@kaitlyn__L]

Wow, it sounds just like Hainbach! I wonder how that happened ;) I must admit, I really appreciate your honesty about the slightly janky UI, which is something I always felt the promo videos glossed over. I also know how much you love slowed-down tape, and the interpolation on this is great, so I wasn't at all surprised when your first thing was to slow it way down 😆 I find samplers like this really cute, but for some reason my love of hardware instruments just doesn't extend to samplers. I guess sampling is just so much more chaotic with so many more dimensions to it, that I feel lost without a proper computer to map out what I'm doing. (See all your issues getting layers in the right order and so on on here.)

[@doctorc-ton1099]

Awesome inspired audio around the 15 minute mark. It's pretty/very cool what you're able to come up with in such short order. I wonder what this does more than what you can do with OP-1 or C+G Organelle compared to the Chompi? Heck, just combine them all and see what that does, and throw in the iPad Audiothings processor of your choice.

[@Jefflantern483]

That is one epic little sampler/ keyboard thingie & makes those epic sounds & some gnarly sounds too! 😊👍

[@tuneboyz5634]

Pippi 😊

[@SteenGroentved]

I have been looking for a thing like this for some time! Sounds amazing! I hope they make a version 2, a little more intuitive / user friendly, preferably with "normal keys" indstead of the drum machine interface. Then I would definitely buy it!

[@michamirkowski4789]

Honestly, the reverb magic tickles my brain. In a good way!

[@JonMurray]

Ooooohhh! I stumbled across their first KZbin video when they released it! Been looking forward to this! :)

[@scienceofsound]

Thanks for this video. It all verifies almost all of my issues I have with my Chompi and hopefully firmware updates and new faceplates can solve most of them.

[@loopinnerthe]

The way to see how Hainbach rates an instrument is in his insightful and well thought through comments but also in the shoulders. If his shoulders get a really flowing motion going on then he likes it... there was only one section of full H-flow in this video.

[@BatmanWangChung]

Suh dude! Thanks for the cool demo and review! Seems like a neat company!

[@surrealchemist]

It would be pretty easy to have alternate keycaps with helper info if they can be popped off like a mechanical keyboard

[@Hainbach]

Yeah I hope they release designs I can 3D print. This is meant to be customisable after all

[@goonfish]

The caps on the Chompi look like a custom-order windowed version of the G20 keycap profile from Signature Plastics, for those interested.

[@cometpingpong8976]

Hainbach just became a Dungeon Synth artist with that second track.

[@EgeDai]

Only problem with it is the price which seems to be a recurring theme with cutesy gear

[@Smelter57]

Not the only problem, the scammers were everywhere on Facebook while the Kickstarter was running. After reporting it 3 times to FB I gave up.

[@joshfrench6426]

And not worth half of the price

[@koncreteto2758]

Imagine paying 709 dollars for a 20 dollar circuit board that's open source 😂

[@drindy5166]

​@@koncreteto2758100% 👊🧡👍

[@joshfrench6426]

Plus it looks infantile as shit which makes sense in our current time ​@koncreteto2758

[@son_of_wasps]

Hainbach I love your SWEATER!!!

[@migimunz]

Shit, you’re so talented! Your videos always make me want to play with my synthesizers.

[@Sinnersainthuman]

The design is so dope!

[@chambre466]

happy new year man

[@Hainbach]

Happy new year to you too

[@adriena0]

"Recording? Playing?" "N̵͙͌ͅȎ̷̱̞o̵͓̰̍͝ö̵͖́o̶̖̔" "Okay." 😅

[@napinapalm]

I love your pull-over

[@BreakfastatSynthphonys]

Took me a long to get use to the UI, but I’m having a lot of fun with it now. Wish it had some quantization. Maybe it does, I haven’t tried midi on it yet.

[@Hainbach]

I have neither - I am not much of a MIDI guy.

[@awesome6323]

I‘ll stick to my SK-1 for now, but this is something I could really have fun with

Sound's great ! 🙏🏻

[@ChemistryLemur]

I love your sweater, very moody. Reminds me of taking the subway at night.

[@GraphicEqulizerProductions]

Beautiful sounds

[@lofotenbajas]

Wow! I work with kids with disabilities and I know a few who would love to play with this!

[@MrSharps02]

that is an insanely fly sweater. it reminds me of the plumage of the wood ducks here. please tell me i can buy it somewhere!

[@Hainbach]

I wish I could but it’s a second hand thing my wife gifted to me 🙁

[@ElectroPercs]

Wow, I'm very impressed! Does Hasbro know it escaped? I want that!

[@theSantiagoDog]

Why is it so hard to find a hardware synth that can do the real-time tape speed manipulation (fast, slow, reverse) as this device does? Such an amazing feature for ambient and soundscapes. The OP-1 can do a little of this, but not as flexible. The closest I could find in my search was the Instruo Lubadh or Make Noise Morphagene, but that’s eurorack ofc. Anyway, I bought a Chompi. I think it’s unique.

[@BottleMakesMusic]

Interesting aesthetic, sorta Fisher-Price meets Mattel meets Critter & Guitari. Looks cute but I bet it's got some interesting and hackable hardware under the hood. Either way, great dark ambient vibes

[@Hainbach]

It is based on Daisy, so alternate firmwares should be doable

[@BottleMakesMusic]

@@Hainbach Cool! Not familiar with the Daisy micro-controller. Assuming it's similar to the Arduino or Teensy.

[@jaxonpallone4377]

@@BottleMakesMusicsimilar but the platform is built specifically for DSP

[@vicemayorskeletonmeat]

I agree with you about the lack of labeling on the FN keys - why not! That said, for the first three days I had it I totally missed that this info is printed on the back of the device, hah

[@TeslaDanser]

It has great spec and fair play to the pair of creators. It's heavily nostalgia driven, just like so many other machines we pine for. That being said its primitive and I really think if it didn't have the square keys from yore it wouldn't have got started. It is cool though

[@nomad1517]

Chompi: It will sample your soul.

[@wul01]

You know, I reckon the best hardware unit to do the sample, fx, loop, resample and build a performance is the korg microsampler.

[@Hainbach]

Always curious about that one

[@wul01]

@@Hainbach I have just tried it on my microsampler and I can confirm it is perfect, well worth a try. Although it ain’t pink. I was gonna sell it but not anymore. I created a template within the (now discontinued) lemur app on the iPad that controls it, massively expanded its capabilities.

[@iSapien1956672]

I wish I had the money to pledge for that, I wanted one so bad, but I still pledged for the windbreaker.

[@Hainbach]

Yeah I dithered myself until the regular edition was sold out

[@deastman2]

Oh, another tip- are you aware that you can record live audio input directly into the looper?

[@Hainbach]

I only read about it in the "long" manual. Good to hear it works!

[@chiefbucknell]

I was surprised, it seems the played notes are pitch shifted without affecting the time/length of the sample? I expected the played notes to be repitched using varispeed, as on an old school sampler (e.g., Casio SKs), but this seems like Roland’s Variphrase?

[@Hainbach]

No they are re-pitched - I think the effects just hide that very well.

[@chiefbucknell]

@@Hainbach Thanks! I should have realized that the ability to set start and end loop points on a sample might also help to mask the re-pitching.

[@MathHammer]

This looks fun, but sort of expensive for what it does and has some unusual design choices. There is definitely a segment that likes electromechanical typing keyboards. I might consider this once the OS firms up and goes through a few more debugging iterations and more user-requested features are added. One mechanical bit that I would be concerned about is the little switch to the left of the Chompi button. It looks like it may be getting flipped many times during a session.

[@hermanadam1]

Thanks for that intresting test! But you forgotten to mention Organelle as another box that can do the same things with a lot of different patches. Also wonderful timestretched cromatic sampling with the new "multicoder" patch wich I like very much to create new sounds.

[@Hainbach]

Ah I only have the Pocket Piano - never went into Organelle, seems full of endless possibilities

[@milkweedreflections]

Organelle, cheaper and does waaaaaaaaaaaaay more, lol

[@milkweedreflections]

Organelle is also higher production quality, lol

[@cheharrison7107]

Hello lovely people, can anyone recommend any music with this kind of sound 12:56, the bit where Hainbach fist pumps and makes the "ooph nice" face? I have adhd and have found this tone to really calm and ground my brain like nothing else, so far ive found similar in Breakcore, jungle, dubstep and drone, but really want to expand my musical knowledge. Any help much appreciated. Happy new year peeps 🤘❤️

[@Hainbach]

Check out my album with Ah Kosmos hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/blast-of-sirens

[@thwackspongbelm]

Boards Of Canada - Music has the Right to Children

[@stevie_zeven]

I have all kinds of hardware samplers already but obviously the only way I am going to get into and be a heavy hitter in the Toycore Scene for 2024 is to get one of these even though I already have a Microsampler. Wish me luck, I guess.

[@Hainbach]

Godspeed!

[@cyberwarfare9118]

This thing is more of an effects box more than anything, and a rather expensive one at that at $500. Also have you considered replacing your battered old OP1 with a Roland MC101? They basically do the same thing snd the MC101 has a crazy synth engine and midi in

[@Hainbach]

I have an OP-1 Field and my iPad for portable music. Just like the very lofi sound of the OP-1 OG sometimes

[@PontiacS.]

HAINBACH!!!!!!!!!! Goes Cutesy Wit' It. Calling in the Whales? Very Koolz.

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

Looks really cool but no "undo" feature is a pretty major thing for me.. I'm not a trained or particularly skilled instrumentalist and with the amount of sound layering I do for texture; ruining an hour of work with a simple mis-press or mis-twist (especially with _unlabelled_ controls) is a great way to have me turn off your device and never use it again They could feasibly add an "undo" with firmware though, right?

[@Hainbach]

Theoretically yes. It is on an open source platform so it should be highly customisable.

[@jaxonpallone4377]

cant wait until mine gets in!!!

[@Hainbach]

Worth the wait it was for me!

[@zastruga]

A future jam with AudioPilz on his pink barbie TD-3?

[@Hainbach]

If I get to mix in my pink Lyra and Bebe Cheri then yes!

[@zastruga]

@@Hainbach hahaha!

[@andreaswehrmann365]

1:52 Wait, what? That huge choir sound came just from the "recording..." sample?

[@Hainbach]

Yeah I said „aaaaaah recording“ and that came out. The reverb/delay is absolutely intense

[@xz5685]

should be illegal for this device to come in any color besides pink

[@reggiep75]

A printable overlay for the keys, to know the functions, would work. Maybe a set of printed keys with functions on the front of the keys would be a better solution.

[@Hainbach]

Yeah 3D printer will come in handy here

[@kaitlyn__L]

Front printing would be great tbh.

[@reggiep75]

@@Hainbach I tell what might also work that crafty people might have access to - laser engraving. Do a few tests on similar keys/plastics, and get engraving. You get to preserve your injection molded keys and get your functions engraved onto the front side of your keys as certain types of 3D printing can be flawed and not suited to smaller items like keys.

[@DasDoktorchen]

Interesting instrument 👍 Didn‘t know before…

[@curtishoffmann6956]

Looks like a fun box, but I'd question the keyboard operations. Maybe change the case to allow for more of a traditional keyboard key shape.

[@Hainbach]

Big CHOMPI with 88key Fatar board would be ridiculously funny

[@curtishoffmann6956]

@@Hainbach

[@candyflip6345]

What would you say the strongest feature of this sampler is?

[@Hainbach]

Ease of use for basic sampling functions, strong effects (could be a pedal in itself), workflow of tape looper

[@KTheBoi]

Great video! Now tell me where that sweater is from because I want one too

[@Hainbach]

Second hand, gift from my wife so probably hard to find now

[@KTheBoi]

@@Hainbach Very unfortunate for me, but I'm happy you're rocking some straight fire 😌

[@kisho2679]

well its portable. but could it be further developed to become a live looper?

[@Thegingerwolff]

What was the unit you used to make the beats? The big black one.....

[@andrewhernandez1509]

the sounds at 4:00 sound like Discreet Music by Eno really gorgeous sounds from something that looks like a upscale fisherprice toy lol nice.

[@dnaflr2]

Trying to understand what this does that the OP-1 doesn’t do better.

[@matsewunderlich]

Wie war das erst beim Kollegen die Barbie Edition der TD3 😝 aber Chompi hat mich echt berührt 🍀👍

[@dankefurnichts]

13:57 das hab ich jetzt woanders auch schon gesehen. das ist natürlich sad wenn man das volume nicht per sound regeln kann 😞

[@FfortheT]

Kommt per Update

[@SonicPVC]

I used to rock the Bram Bos Tuareg way back in the day

[@metamyther]

Maybe I'm missing something. Are there many more features than a lush reverb, what looks like a tape/lofi and recording/pitching a sample up and down? At this price point why not just get a Digitakt? I like the Quickstart Guide but the fact that Hainbach is consulting the manual so often is not exactly a good sign from a design standpoint. This is definitely my contender for Worst Gear of 2023 considering the functions to price ratio as a start.

[@Hainbach]

The tape style looper is pretty much awesome. I made a whole album on the Digitakt hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/old-suns but then sold it. I don’t like the MPC style of working myself.

[@plantain.1739]

I mean I understand wanting a different work flow, but there are definitely other weird things about this. It seems very confused on what it wants to be.

[@PLA.net-DANTE]

Can you use the Chompi to loop multiple synths?

[@Hainbach]

It had one loop you can overdub into

[@pepationpeppers9202]

the numbers are below the keys right? 8:00

[@blister4walken]

A soundtrack to a Haunted Tokyo. Brilliant.

[@FLH3official]

Ein Barbie Chompie for Hainbach! 🤪

[@Hainbach]

Der Film war super! Und nun bekommt Chompi erstmal meine Tochter Rosa als Dauerleihgabe :-)

[@Volcaniced]

Wirklich sehr sehr gut. Danke dir für das tolle Video. (kleiner Hinweis: Fokus ... Liegt auf der Kalimba).

[@awogbob]

Mr heinbach, the corresponding numbers are under the keys no? 7:50

[@Hainbach]

But those just help in locating presets, not with core functions.

[@awogbob]

I actually saw this after posting this comment. I understand. Do you know if it uses standard keyboard switches? (mx style posts) if so im sure aftermarket keycaps would happen quickly. Still should be in the core product tho@@Hainbach

[@rjadamz9117]

Do you still use Chompi in any form in your production or performance setups?

[@Hainbach]

No, my youngest took it into her care. She loves it

[@rjadamz9117]

@@Hainbach good to hear that. Thank Mr. Hainbach

[@veloopity]

wondering what video you'd make about the Organelle

[@Hainbach]

That seems like an endless quest. Don't think I have the time.

[@veloopity]

@@Hainbach I understand :)

[@EmberwolfXR]

oh a new toy to play with yay

[@Mr.Cockney]

It is funny: I have 5 daughters and the nickname of the last one has been CHOMPI since she was born almost 18 years ago! What a coincidence!

[@humanser]

I cost one hundred thousand dollars to play the music in one minute

[@jeffevansmusic]

Its expensive. In Australia over $900 before freight. Sorry, but there are many other things out there at this price point which would be far better.

[@216by773]

I almost backed this and now I'm glad I didn't. Sounds like he's trying to talk himself into liking it