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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

            • Visit our Public Slack Channel and join the conversation in between episodes!

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