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MEP EP#176: Some Impedance or Whatever - Nick Chelyapov with Bitty

Published: June 12, 2019, 10:11 p.m.

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?

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