Speak & Glitch GND-1T Review – “It Puts The ‘Mental’ In Experimental!”


Host Ziv Eliraz – In his latest loopop video – shares what’s probably his strangest review of the year, a review of the Speak & Glitch GND-1T Speech Chip Synthesizer.

The GND-1T is based on an emulation of the TMS speech synthesis chip found in the classic vintage Speak and Spell game. It was inspired by many years of circuit bending hardware Speak and Spells to produce musical sounds, but takes it far beyond anything that’s possible in hardware.

Topics covered:

0:00 Intro

2:45 Overview

5:50 Build

6:10 Workflow

9:15 I/O

10:05 Patch screen

10:45 Drift

12:20 Morph

14:25 Random

15:00 Excludes

15:40 Speech

19:45 Speech filter

20:20 Word loop

20:50 Will it bend?

22:05 Stereo

22:40 Pitch

23:05 Post filter

23:30 Mix/Echo

23:55 Mini looper

24:40 Modulation

25:05 Envelopes

25:50 MFO

26:45 LFOs

27:20 Mod blocks

30:10 Exp matrix

32:00 Note XP

32:40 Drums

35:45 Arp/seq??

37:10 Misc

37:30 Pros & cons

42:10 Presets

Eliraz notes that this priced reasonably for a boutique synth and that its sounds are completely unlike any synth out there. On the cons side, he notes that the interface doesn’t make great use of the big color screen, and that it’s sometimes not clear what a parameter does. He also notes that that online manual is hard to read.

Details on the GND-1T are available at the developer’s site.

If you are interested in the Speak & Glitch GND-1T, make sure you check out the preset demos, which start at around 42:10 in the video.

Watch the video, and share your thoughts on the Speak & Glitch GND-1T in the comments!

 

 

 


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