Sunkiss Midi Sequencer R&D Fund
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What We Want To Do....
We have a simple idea, build an 8 Channel MIDI hardware sequencer, pattern based, with song mode, and geared towards live performance (no, not a step sequencer, yes we know their are tons of those out there). Our goal is to make this affordable to a wider market with a $350-450 price tag.
The current resurgence of popularity of 30 year old sequencers such as the Alesis MMT-8, Roland MSQ700, Yamaha QY series, RMX-1 and others have been driven by the desire for people to get back to making music with hardware and not software based instruments. We feel there is a gap that we can fill to meet the needs and keep people from having to spend the same amount of money for machines that are over 30 years old (and save you the headache of trying to hunt down floppy disks.)
Alesis MMT-8
Roland MSQ-700
We need money to make the following real:
We estimate approximately $3500-5000 for a few working prototypes and pre-Kickstarter marketing.
Our vision starts with these mockups and concepts that we want to build off of:
About Us
Many of you know us and our work together in the studio and our many releases way back when. What you may not know is that we've brainstorming music technology ideas together for over 25 years. We've not only been music makers and tech geeks but we're also visionaries.
Kenneth Graham is a master geek with parts and a soldering iron, he has extensive experience with embedded systems and circuit design. Even better, not only can he design it, and build it, he also knows what it takes to manufacture real world products and solutions.
David Alvarado aside from being a well known electronic music producer, artist, and dj, David is a power user of music technology, user interface/user experience designer, iOS developer, and code wrangler/programmer with over 20 years of beta testing software/hardware from major music manufacturers.
Bottom line.. we can build it, we already have...
Fact:
Kenneth Graham developed (in conjunction with my bitching and whining) a DJ controller for Final Scratch/Traktor over 8 years before Native Instruments produced its first DJ controller for sale. Interestingly enough, they passed on his contraption because they didn't feel anyone was interested in using controllers to DJ (cough cough). He crafted several pieces of time way ahead of anyone else and began designing and selling DIY components for USB/MIDI devices:
http://www.halemicro.com/wp/products/
So why should you trust us with your money to develop a hardware sequencer? Well ...
Fact:
Kenneth has already designed and developed a fully functional 16 channel hardware sequencer, but with these cool automated flying faders and features, most people couldn't afford it.
Bottom Line:
This is R&D money to get this built and proof of concept.
We will then take this to the next level and do a full flegged Kickstarter campain for full production run and fund manufacturing.
Your contribution up to $100 will give you dollar for dollar match in discount for the initial purchase from our Kickstarter campaign. We will keep you on our list of initial R&D donors and give you priority to the first units.
We have a simple idea, build an 8 Channel MIDI hardware sequencer, pattern based, with song mode, and geared towards live performance (no, not a step sequencer, yes we know their are tons of those out there). Our goal is to make this affordable to a wider market with a $350-450 price tag.
The current resurgence of popularity of 30 year old sequencers such as the Alesis MMT-8, Roland MSQ700, Yamaha QY series, RMX-1 and others have been driven by the desire for people to get back to making music with hardware and not software based instruments. We feel there is a gap that we can fill to meet the needs and keep people from having to spend the same amount of money for machines that are over 30 years old (and save you the headache of trying to hunt down floppy disks.)
Alesis MMT-8
Roland MSQ-700
We need money to make the following real:
We estimate approximately $3500-5000 for a few working prototypes and pre-Kickstarter marketing.
Our vision starts with these mockups and concepts that we want to build off of:
About Us
Many of you know us and our work together in the studio and our many releases way back when. What you may not know is that we've brainstorming music technology ideas together for over 25 years. We've not only been music makers and tech geeks but we're also visionaries.
Kenneth Graham is a master geek with parts and a soldering iron, he has extensive experience with embedded systems and circuit design. Even better, not only can he design it, and build it, he also knows what it takes to manufacture real world products and solutions.
David Alvarado aside from being a well known electronic music producer, artist, and dj, David is a power user of music technology, user interface/user experience designer, iOS developer, and code wrangler/programmer with over 20 years of beta testing software/hardware from major music manufacturers.
Bottom line.. we can build it, we already have...
Fact:
Kenneth Graham developed (in conjunction with my bitching and whining) a DJ controller for Final Scratch/Traktor over 8 years before Native Instruments produced its first DJ controller for sale. Interestingly enough, they passed on his contraption because they didn't feel anyone was interested in using controllers to DJ (cough cough). He crafted several pieces of time way ahead of anyone else and began designing and selling DIY components for USB/MIDI devices:
http://www.halemicro.com/wp/products/
So why should you trust us with your money to develop a hardware sequencer? Well ...
Fact:
Kenneth has already designed and developed a fully functional 16 channel hardware sequencer, but with these cool automated flying faders and features, most people couldn't afford it.
Bottom Line:
This is R&D money to get this built and proof of concept.
We will then take this to the next level and do a full flegged Kickstarter campain for full production run and fund manufacturing.
Your contribution up to $100 will give you dollar for dollar match in discount for the initial purchase from our Kickstarter campaign. We will keep you on our list of initial R&D donors and give you priority to the first units.
Organizer
David Alvarado
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA
