groovebox

Engram feeds your samples to the glitch gods and records what crawls back

There's a sampler that feeds your audio to the glitch gods and records what crawls back. Thoughtful Things just launched the Kickstarter for Engram, a groovebox that runs a "tiny AI" locally, no internet required, to mangle incoming sounds and hallucinate entirely new ones. That's the part that gets me: this isn't a push-button, get-song box. It's built for the experimental, the uncanny, the stuff that sounds wrong in the best way. The model is custom-trained and designed in-house, which means it's a weird little beast with a specific taste. I want to hear what it does to a drum loop. If you're into clever hardware that refuses to behave, this one's worth circling back for.