C-16 · DESKTOP SYNTH + SEQUENCER
AN INSTRUMENTYOU CAN LEARNIN AN AFTERNOON.
Sixteen steps, four sounds, sixteen keys. Light a few squares below, press play, and you've made a song before the kettle boils.
INSIDE THE C-16
FOUR LAYERS.
NO MANUAL.
LIVE · DRAWN FROM WHAT'S PLAYING
EVERY PATTERN
HAS A SHAPE.
Press play up top and this landscape is your loop: kicks swell the low end, ticks ripple the high end, peaks run red. Silent, it dreams up its own.
Six people.
Six afternoons.
Each of them learned the C-16 in a day. Load their pattern and it plays on the sequencer up top, notes and all.
SPEC SHEET · TURN IT AROUND
THE NUMBERS,
PLAINLY.
- STEPS
- 16 per pattern, 64 patterns saved
- SOUNDS
- Kick, snap, tick and a two-oscillator keys voice
- CONTROLS
- 16 keys, 4 knobs, 4 faders, 1 play button
- SCREEN
- Dot-matrix, 64 × 16, glows green
- SPEAKER
- 3 W, front-firing, mutes when headphones go in
- BATTERY
- 9 hours, charges over USB-C in 2
- PORTS
- USB-C, MIDI in/out, sync in/out, headphones
- SIZE
- 400 × 180 × 40 mm, 1.1 kg
FOUR MODULES.
ZERO MENUS.
Open a folder and change the sound on this page. Everything here is wired to the sequencer up top.
The keys voice
Two oscillators, a hair apart, so every note sounds a little alive. Choose the shape and hear it on the next step.
The loop
Stuck? Shuffle a pattern that still keeps time. Add swing and the straight grid starts to walk with a limp you'll like.
Three switches
Each effect is one switch with one sensible setting. Turn them all on at once. Nobody's checking.
The back edge
Plug it into a laptop, a drum machine or a friend's C-16. Sync keeps two of them in step without a single setting.
- USB-C
- MIDI IN
- MIDI OUT
- SYNC
- PHONES
