Tasty Chips Electronics has introduced the GR-1 Hardware Polyphonic Granular Synthesizer.

The company says that the GR-1 ‘is great for drones, sound design, film scoring, beat making and composing.’

Features:

Hardware, polyphonic synthesizer with high quality (32 bit, 44.1kHz) audio

Internal and external memory (USB) offers huge storage capacity.

Intuitive interface.

The GR-1 can be controlled via MIDI (USB/DIN) or be used standalone.

Update firmware, load samples or save (and load) patches/performances to your USB disk or internal memory.

CV and gate options to connect easily with your (eurorack) modular setup.

4 banks of 8 overwritable preset buttons, within a performance. This means you can save 32 presets, each with different samples, in a single performance. You can save as many performances as your USB disk can store.

Audio Demos:

Pricing and Availability

Tasty Chips Electronics has not released full details on the GR-1 yet, but says that they are planning a Kickstarter project to fund production, and that it will be priced around US $945. See their site for more info.