The yellow plastic case of a Roland P-6 pocket drum machine opened up, revealing the factory PCB board and mods with speaker and amplifier circuit.

Hack a Roland P-6 pocket sampler with its own amp and speaker

It’s a drum machine. It’s a sampler. It’s got a rechargeable battery. It’s got… some space inside the case. So hacker DIYDSP (Noah Vawter) added his own amp and speaker, modding the handheld with the self-contained speaker Roland left out.

Roland P-6 pocket sampler with FX, granular engine: here’s what to know

Roland’s latest handheld boutique synth is a departure. Instead of a synth or drum machine, it was inspired by the SP-404. Here’s the skinny on its onboard sampling, effect, and sequencer features, direct from the source.

Peter Kirn - September 12, 2024

Polyend’s Tracker Mini adds stereo sampling features, clock improvements

Polyend’s Tracker Mini got a big firmware update today, including stereo line-in sample recording and other stereo sampling features, and much-anticipated internal clock accuracy improvements. Mod import is back in beta, too.

Peter Kirn - March 8, 2024

Portable recorder/looper on its side with a rainbow background behind it. White with knobs and wooden buttons, a large speaker grill, and a gooseneck mic protruding perpendicular to the front panel.

Critter and Guitari Kaleidoloop, portable looper, is back with new features

Peter Kirn - March 6, 2024

Smallest MIDI keyboard ever? MidiCard fits on a business card

Peter Kirn - February 20, 2024

C4NDY KeyVLM, a USB keyboard that connects to a vinyl turntable for mixing

Peter Kirn - December 30, 2023

Keysette is a micro piano to cassette instrument – and limited edition faux vintage

Peter Kirn - June 21, 2023

Bastl Bestie puts stereo, pre-listen, overdrive, creative feedback in an ultra-portable mixer

Peter Kirn - April 12, 2023

Polyend Play looks like beauty in simplicity – for utterly fast grid-based music making

Peter Kirn - May 16, 2022

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