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episode 176: MEP EP#176: Some Impedance or Whatever - Nick Chelyapov with Bitty
Some Impedance or Whatever - Nick Chelyapov with Bitty
Nick Chelyapov
- A freelance Interactive Art Director and Graphic Designer
- Born in Moscow, Russia and raised in Los Angeles, California
- Nick has worked on a wide variety of art direction and graphic design projects
- Nick started Bitty, a pocket drum machine, 3 and a half years ago
- "I think the edge that I have to bring to a hardware product is graphic design"
What is the bitty?
- Kickstarter project
- A pocket drum machine
- Specs on Bitty
- Sine / square / saw / triangle waves (it's all there, noise too.)
- Sample playback - 16khz samples
- Polyphony - 4 voices is easy, depending on the complexity of the patch, 8-16 voices is possible
- Filters - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass, Notch
- Patterns / Arpeggiation
How did you get into hardware design from graphic design?
- Product look and feel
- Process of iterations? What do you look for in the design?
Links and Callouts
- The mozzi library
- Fab Academy
- Teenage Engineering
- Gavin Lund
- Curious Sound Objects
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