Tasty Chips Electronics GR-1 Hardware Granular Synthesizer

The GR-1 Granular Synthesizer is a hardware musical instrument, offering hands-on controls to create characteristic textures and pads.

The GR-1 is a hardware polyphonic granular synthesizer in a class of its own. The GR-1 is capable of creating textures, characteristic sounds, drones, soundscapes, pads etc. with the help of your creativity! A sample and a few knob tweaks is enough to create something beautiful!

The GR-1 is massively polyphonic: 128 grains per voice, up to a total of 1000 grains in parallel. It employs 32 bit mixing and a HIFI stereo DAC for rendition. A 7″ full colour display that is typically only found in top class synthesizers. It can use (USB or DIN) MIDI keyboards, USB sticks/disks, USB audio interfaces, and even PC keyboards. Yet it also features CV interfaces for integration with Modular (Eurorack) systems.

• 128 grains per voice
• 11 voice polyphony
• 4 part multitimbral
• Standalone or MIDI controllable
• MIDI IN & MIDI THRU connection with DIN and USB MIDI
• High quality stereo audio: internally: 32 bit float, DAC: 44.1KHz
• High quality headphone amplifier with volume control
• 800 x 480 pixel, 7” TFT true color display
• Raspberry Pi3 inside: massive DSP power and easy to service
• Firmware updates via USB
• Sample file uploads in multiple formats via USB
• Sampling using USB sound cards
  • Record and save samples
  • Use as granular looping FX