Hong Kong-based musical collective wunderkammer has launched a crowdfunding marketing campaign for its inaugural product: the WoO.1, a compact just-about-pocketable gadget designed to be prepared at any time when inspiration strikes.
“With WoO.1 as the primary product in our WoO.x sequence, this sequence is impressed by Beethoven’s ‘Werk ohne Opus’ (Works With out Opus) — [a] misplaced in time masterpiece given no formal quantity,” wunderkammer’s Jiaxin Wu explains. “We encourage creators to step exterior, hearken to the world round them, and seize extra inspiration sparked by nature, utilizing easy loops to weave extra lovely compositions. Wunderkammer WoO.1 is the right possibility for this. We have chosen lighter supplies and sacrificed some options. Amongst your many units, it might be a small presence — but it surely could possibly be an indispensable one.”
The compact WoO.1 incorporates a scissor-switched keyboard, quantity and performance knobs, an built-in speaker, a operate management button strip, and — instead of a display — a sequence of lights on the very high of its case. These are the loop indicators for its built-in “unlimited-track” looper, which may make use of 140 built-in sounds and 14 grooves whereas offering room for 140 customized samples. An built-in microphone can be utilized to seize samples to fill stated pattern financial institution, whereas the built-in battery is nice for a claimed up-to 50 hours of use when utilizing headphones somewhat than the interior speaker.
The gadget is not simply geared toward skilled musicians, although: the corporate claims that its LED-guided seven-track “Wunder Mode” offers an instruction-led quick-start that requires no prior musical expertise. Different options embrace low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and pitch-shift filters, polyphony help, finger drum mode, MIDI compatibility, single-track impact mixing, and an arpeggiator with quantize operate.
The WoO.1 is at the moment funding on Kickstarter, the place it has already far surpassed its modest funding aim; bodily rewards begin at $299 for “day one” backers, rising to $319 for “early fowl” and $359 for the rest of the marketing campaign — all a piece cheaper than the gadget’s claimed $429 retail worth.
