Lo-Fi Music Mangler

Erica Synths has released the limited edition Infinite Digits Pikocore XL DIY kit. It is a full DIY kit that includes all components to build an instrument and put in in action straight away. The RP board in the kit is pre-programmed and ready to use. Here's the details direct from the company...

The Pikocore is a lo-fi music mangler based on the Raspberry Pi, developed by Zack Scholl. The original DIY kit comes in a miniature pocket calculator formfactor, but we at Erica Synths wanted to make it more playable, so we reached out to Zack and developed Pikocore XL version that has identical functionality, but comes in Erica Synths signature hands-on user interface and proper aluminium enclosure.

Features

• a lo-fi music mangler based on the Raspberry Pi Pico (brother of the nyblcore).
• capable of holding 8 minutes of 8-bit 33 kHz monophonic samples.
• powered by a single alkaline AAA battery for up to 3 hours or by powered by USB-C.
• tempo-synced with a selectable BPM between 60 and 300, with samples mangled by beat-synced effects (stutter, retrig, gate, tunneling).
• loaded with real-time effects like a resonant filter, timestretching, volume, and wavefolding.
• sequenced with a 128-step sequencer with recording/playback
• saved and loaded via EEPROM for instant patch recall.
• able to load custom firmware, new samples, all through USB-C.
• sync-compatible with Pocket Operators.
• open-source, wonderfully hackable.

Pricing and Availability:
€ 160

More information:

• Erica Synths.

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