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Critter & Guitari Organelle

Brand: Critter and Guitari

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unique synth w/ powerful and flexible sound engine
onboard hardware for sound input and output
playful and intuitive controls
MIDI over USB + HDMI out
runs off customizable patches loaded via USB drive

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The Organelle makes it easy to explore new sounds and experiment with new ways of making music. It combines playful and intuitive controls with a powerful and flexible sound engine. The result is an instrument that is limitless in musical possibility and a joy to play.

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Product Dimensions

17 x 6 x 4 inches

Item Weight

1.8 pounds

Manufacturer

Critter and Guitari

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B01IFFDLAC

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4.3 9 ratings

4.3 out of 5 stars

Date First Available

January 29, 2016

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austin prudhomme

Addiction all day

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2020

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I'm absolutely in love with this thing. I'm playing these emotional chords crying like omg beautiful

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2017

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In my opinion the first device to adequately employ pure data for audio design, effects and performance

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Justin Bieliever

Fun toy. Awful sound. Not worth the price tag.

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2017

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Sound quality is terrible. It's a fun toy but the sound quality is awful. Every patch has an audible "click" and "pop" sound right on the attack. Documentation is sub par with very little explanation on how to modify the patches in PD (I wanted to fix the patches with all the clicks and pops, by simply editing the attack of the envelope, for example). This is an overpriced toy. At $200, I could see it. But the features, sound set, and awful all around quality do not warrant such a high price tag.

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Fun, Addictive, and Powerful Sound Computer... but with a couple of caveats.

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2017

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I've been working with the Organelle for a few weeks now and I'm really liking it quite a bit, but, there are a couple of caveats to it that people need to understand, because there seems to be some confusion about what exactly the Organelle is.

First, after talking about it to friends and posting videos online, I've had a lot of people say "so, it's just a sampler? How does it compare to the OP-1?" and that's the misconception... unlike the OP-1 which is a "fixed synth" as well as a sampler (and a very nicely designed one at that) the Organelle is NOT a sampler or a synth; it is a Sound Computer. One that can be programmed to do anything you wish within the audio realm. So it can be a 2 Oscillator Virtual Analog synth if you wish, or a 6 Oscillator FM synth, or a Sampler with Granular Processing, or a Quad Delay effects box for your guitar... in other words, it's not JUST a synth or a sampler, it's anything you want it to be.

But that's the caveat... to really get the most out of the Organelle, you should want to dive in and start learning the Pure Data visual programming language that it runs, that way you can make your own patches from scratch. Though the Organelle comes with a few really nice examples of what it can do, and there is a pretty good (and growing) user community making many more free patches, I've seen more than a couple of people become disappointed with their purchase on forums because they thought it was a full blown sampler that can do everything they wanted... and it can be, but you'll have to put the work in and make it yourself to get exactly what you want.

That said, there are quite a few fun example patches that are quite playable, and I myself have been diving into Pure Data to see what I can come up with (it's really not that hard of a programming language.) The only negatives which caused me to take one star away (though I really would have only taken half a star if I could) is the sound quality isn't all that great; probably due to the digital to audio convertors they are using, and the menu system is a little bit fiddly when you have a lot of patches loaded and you are having to scroll around to find things... but other than that, the fun factor, portability and the incredibly wide range of things you can do with this (again, it can be a synth, sampler, drum machine, effects processor for external gear and yes, even an alarm clock!) makes this one of the most exciting pieces of gear to come out in quite a long while... at least for me!

The only thing I know of that is close to this is the Monome Aleph which looks nicer, but is more than double the price, hard to find, and apparently much harder to code for as well. The Organelle, by comparison, is more immediate and definitely more fun!

The Video I've included in my review is a Karplus-Strong based patch I am working on to simulate a guitar strumming... since there was nothing else on the Organelle like that (an example of how you can just create your own what-ever-you-want thing on the Organelle!)

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Elizabeth A. Baker

ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE WITH MY ORGANELLE!

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2017

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ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE WITH MY ORGANELLE!

3 people found this helpful

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Liz

Delivered as

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2016

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Delivered as promised

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Matthew D. Jasper

Excellent sound design tool that rivals Teenage OP-1

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2021

The build quality and originality of the design appealed to me as did the online demos and songs. Listen to them and see if the perhaps more experimental/ DIY / sonic palate appeals--yet also realize that you could likely customize it to suit your tastes either by designing patches or modifying a few of the thousands of available free patches. I found it actually much easier to get unique and individuated compositions out of this box than out of my OP-1. I rate the Organelle as every bit as musically innovative and valuable as the OP-1 yet it is priced much less. The original Organelle is what I am discussing here, yet there is a new Organelle M version that improved processing, ram, and midi etc.

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Was not for me, maybe it is for you

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2017

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I owned this little guy for about 6 months before selling, I really did give it a shot.

I bought my organelle with the intent to record with it and incorporate into a live set. For producing i think it offers a lot of unique sounds, but for live use it is an absolute pain in the ass.

I can’t help but think they were trying to make a homage to the op-1 but this thing is 10x clunkier, way less useful, and sounds pretty lackluster.

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