If HAL 9000 mated with R2-D2 and their electronic offspring was tutored by Kraftwerk it would probably end up something like the Bliptronic 5000 LED Synthesizer.
At once a minimalist musical plaything and a hardcore old-skool synthesizer, the Bliptronic defies categorization as it belts out 8-Bit style style tunes from its grid of glowing buttons.
You’ll notice sound similar to a retro Casiotone with an interface not unlike a simplified Yamaha TENORI-ON… if that makes any sense. Either way, once you start touching the keys of the Bliptronic you’ll be hooked by it’s simple pattern-based approach to music.
Yep! Alive & well! ( I’m the guy who designed the board for it & porter the software.. ) Probably a hudred folks out there using them. I think of it as a gateway monome. for <$150 built.
ColemanT drop me a line if your having button problems.. They’re usually a little " clicky" but not unresponsive, per say.. might be easily solved by dropping the board a few millimeters.
would consider building one of these if getting a bliptronic in the uk in the first place wasnt such a ball ache . would sit nicely next to my monome and arduinome … do teh pots keep functionality ?
Yeah, Shipping things that big over the ocean is a rip. It takes me $16US to ship a little bag of parts and a cable!
The kit comes with 4 nicer audio pots. (The original Bliptronic has some nasty clicky things that look like knobs, but are really switches) They can be used as ADC0-ADC3 in ArduinomeSerial. some patches like Polygome are ready to go with ADC settings.
