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I don't get the hype. A processor 10'000x less powerful than a 2021 M1 iPad, sound quality of late 90s to early 2000s VA. It's cheap and sounds the part.

You CAN get an STM32 to sound beautiful and fun (shout out MI Braids), but in 2026 that's available in VCV Rack for free.

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But, add a keyboard and a display and you're spending the same amount for a worse form-factor. Form-factor is a big part of a musical instrument. People love these little music boxes; see Teenage Engineering gear, which is tiny, quite limited, and crazy expensive. But, people love tinkering with it.

Then again, the keyboard on this thing is ass. They have a bigger version with a proper keyboard (though it probably also sucks), I don't know if folks have hacked that one of if it is hackable in the same way. I would kind of assume it is, though.

Yeah I'm a bit puzzled myself. I can see why developers would be interested, but not so much musicians. As someone who owns a decent amount of hardware synths and Eurorack I know this thing would be gathering dust after a day or two.

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