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byproxytoday at 4:15 PM4 repliesview on HN

I keep telling myself to stop lusting over gear and just start making music, but…

EDIT: Saw that it’s pretty much a fixed-key device, which makes it much less appealing. Still pretty damn cool, though.


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Tangurena2today at 4:34 PM

GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome = buying stuff you don't really need is a serious problem in the synth/eurorack community.

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raffael_detoday at 7:27 PM

He explains it quite well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81fMDyNCljM

wdfxtoday at 4:35 PM

Could mount a guitar pickup under the tines of a kalimba and get much the same effects.

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shams93today at 5:22 PM

Actually you can change the keys up so much you can do microtonal scales on it, but at the end of the day its a metallaphone so not likely to ever be the only piece of gear you'd want to use, you'd want to mix this with other gear to make a full sound.

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