Ecstasequence is the new performance sampler from Nicolai Toma, with a focus on portability and an sleek appearance.
Designed from the suggestions of modern electronic musicians, the sampler celebrates the “focus and limitation” that hardware instruments bring, in the context of our digital age.
Ecstasequence is the new sampler from Nicolai Toma which emphasises intuitive playing and portability, for use in the studio, on stage or on the road.
Ecstasequence has the option of recording and saving your own samples in its internal memory, as well as accessing an inbuilt preset library of well-known electronic instruments. You can program the samples in sequencer mode, controlling the pitch of individual steps using the rotary knobs.
By touching a knob, you can preview a step in the sequence, and by pushing the knob in, you can activate it into the sequence. You can remove the step by pushing the knob again. The current position of the sequence is depicted by a running light display.
There is also the option of octave mode, in which the surfaces of the knobs can be played like piano keys. The device allows for the intuitive playing of chords or single tones, with an offset between half-tone and whole-tone and a key spacing similar to a normal keyboard.
The sampler also offers seamless connectivity with 3.5mm jack, MIDI, CV, GATE, and USB-C options.
To design the Ecstasequence, Toma took a target group of twelve participants, half female and half male, from seven different nationalities, and used their suggestions to inform a modern portable sampler.
Speaking on the Ecstasequence, Toma describes:
“We live in the digital age. Despite all the advantages that this development brings to our way of life, there is a growing desire for physical electronic musical instruments in order to experience focus and limitation in a creative process. The performance sampler ECSTASEQUENCE is the intuitive instrument that improves the creative handling of samples in the studio, on stage or on the road.”
Ecstasequence is set for production soon, for more information head over to the website.
Check out a teaser video below.
