If you love lo-fi samplers, circuit-bent textures and squeezing weird sounds out of tiny hardware, Nyblcore is an absolute joy. Half instrument, half experiment.
nyblcore kit
ATtiny85-based lo-fi sample player.
Details
The nyblcore is a delightfully minimal, lo-fi sample player that turns severe hardware limitations into a creative playground—packing just 8 kB of audio into a tiny ATtiny85-powered device, yet offering a surprising range of warped, glitchy textures through its hands-on knobs and effects. Its charm lies in its unpredictability: unstable tempos, crunchy 8-bit sound, and hackable open-source design invite experimentation rather than precision, making it less a polished instrument and more a pocket-sized machine forsonic exploration.
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- powered by a single AAA for ~5-8 hours of battery life.
- holding 8 kB of storage for up to 1.2 seconds of 8-bit audio sampled @ 4.2 kHz.
- controlled with three multi-functional knobs that modulate tempo, volume, distortion, and fx.
- manipulated with three fx knobs for audio warping (jump, retrig, stutter and stretch).
- able to load custom firmware / audio using an Arduino or an AVR usb programmer.
- open-source*, wonderfully hackable.
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Customer feedback
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Building it is part of the experience, but the real fun starts once you load your own sounds. Nyblcore makes even a simple drum hit or sine wave feel raw, unstable and surprisingly musical.
Nyblcore turns its limitations into the whole point. It’s crunchy, unpredictable, ridiculously small, and somehow makes a second of audio feel like an entire instrument.
A wonderfully strange little DIY sampler. The tiny memory, warped playback and hands-on controls make it perfect for mangled drums, broken loops and happy accidents.
I’m still enjoying the little Nyblcore much
I just built the nyblecore and it is so fun!
It’s a pit of sounds!
I’m very happy to dig the algorithms I have for the moment anyway.
I have to say that I found the Bytebeat that comes out of the Nyblcore really particular and with sounds which I would not have expected from the “one line code”. Beautiful.
We played them last night with my friend and had great fun with them. I think you did a wonderful job!
There’s something really great the constraints of such a simple chip.
In the meanwhile thank you for this little wonder, I will certainly have good times with it!
I’ve played with it for half an hour and was totally blown by it! Wow you did a great job!!! It sounds great and fat which is amazing from such a tiny device!
I purchased both your "wares" and they are super fun so far. We (humans) are lucky that there are people like you in this world making things like this.
playing with my Nyblcore through my NTS1 fxs great fun great work Zack
I really like the original breakbeat loop
I love the nyblcore and have been experimenting with various sounds/loops.
Brilliant really enjoying it
Hello Zack i received nyblcore many thanks i love it !!!!!
I received my assembled nyblcore and it's a fun little device.
Fuck. This is so cool! It was cool before, but now I'm super jazzed.
I got my nyblcore today and am having a lot of fun with it.
Very cool product.
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