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  • Online MIDI Editor & Cheap Sampler: The Cheapest Way to Make Beats!

    Want to make Lofi hip hop or Lofi beats but worried about the high cost and complex knowledge needed? With just a PC, a free online MIDI editor, and the simple SnapBeat sampler, you can start creating beats for just $200. Free Online MIDI Editor: signal Signal is a fully open-sourced online MIDI editor. Since…

  • Simple Drum Machine Sampler Setup Guide Using Snapbeat

    Want to add a sampler to your drum machine or rhythm machine? Using the SnapBeat sampler with MIDI, you can effortlessly transform your setup into a drum machine sampler. Drum Machine Sampler: What Makes It Great? While you can’t change the preset sounds on a drum machine or rhythm machine, combining your drum machine with…

  • Keyboard Sampler: Turn MIDI Keyboard into Sampler

    Want to play various sample sounds using your MIDI keyboard or synthesizer like Korg Microsampler? With SnapBeat, a simple sampler with MIDI, you can easily turn your MIDI keyboard and synthesizer into a versatile keyboard sampler. What is a Keyboad Sampler? A keyboard sampler is a popular device from the 1980s that allows you to…

  • Create Authentic Lofi Samples Easily with a Simple Sampler!

    Create Authentic Lofi Samples Easily with a Simple Sampler! Are you interested in creating lofi samples for your lofi music or lofi beats? If you’re looking for a hardware sampler for lofi song creation, SnapBeat is perfect for you. Have you already researched commercial music samplers online? If you’ve seen the latest samplers and felt…

  • New Product / USB MIDI OUT (TRS) Interface

    New product has been added on my Tindie store. It’s a tiny USB-MIDI (OUT) interface. It’s convenient when you connect your MIDI device such as sampler or synthesizer to PC, and play their sounds triggering with your software on your PC. Of course it’s useful when you connect SnapBeat the simple lo-fi sampler to PC. There…

  • Free giveaway campaign / MIDI – TRS adaptor

    From today, customers who purchase SnapBeat on Tindie can get the MIDI-TRS adapter as free giveaway. This adapter converts normal DIN 5pin type MIDI jack into TRS 3.5mm stereo jack so that you can use conventional MIDI cable to connect SnapBeat with your MIDI devices. Connection between external MIDI device and SnapBeat using the MIDI…

  • Mod. / enabling pitch controls

    https://youtu.be/Xg3f_Dnjb8Y?si=L1E-7wuiD67SKifs In this blog post, I’ll explain about how to enable pitch control function by simple modifications. Pitch contol The pitch control function was locked as default because the original concept of SnapBeat was simple sampler and I thought that the combination of recording sound quality setting (Lofi/Hifi) and the pitch controls makes it complicated.…

  • 2nd lot 50 sets are in stock on Tindie

    It’s already past about six months since the first sale of SnapBeat and it was sold out. After that I got many comments and request from people and they were very helpful to improve the product. I had to do two things before I restarted selling it. One is to improve the product itself such…

  • 2nd lot 50 sets

    Before I announced that the SnapBeat 2nd lot will be available on January 2024, but since I had been busy with another project, I think I can start selling it from the end of February. Now I’ve already gotten 50 sets of PCBA as above photos.From now on I have to modify blender 3D data…

  • New version will be available on January 2024.

    Now, I’m preparing for production of new version SnapBeat. The new version has MIDI IN (via MIDI-TRS type A cable) capability and back light for sound pads (users can turn it ON and OFF).  https://youtu.be/5xHmFGjIy7Y Unfortunately, there is not only what was added but also what was lost. Because of the lack of program memory…