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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