Nérée from the Sea?
We’re curious about the Nérée tactile synth which has recently shown up on Kickstarter and is now fully backed and launching soon.
Shaped like a whale (or is it a dolphin) is not a surprise because Nérée is a French name derived from the Greek sea god known as “the Old Man of the Sea” and associated with water, wisdom and prophecy.
What is Nérée?
Apart from the rather cool and unusual shape of the instrument, what does it do?
Developer Rouchaud Yvain says Nérée is a standalone sampler, synth, DAW and drum sequencer played with touch, pressure and movement.
It doesn’t require a computer, though of course creations can be exported to work, share and save elsewhere.
Nérée Feature Overview
The main features of Nérée are:
- 24-pad capacitive touch surface which responds to notes, pressure, movement and performance control.
- Sampler engine playing max. 12 second mono WAV samples from SD card, with internal smoothing and filtering.
- Multiple sound engines including bass, pluck, ambient, metallic and organic; wavetable and algorithmic voices; designed for expressive, pressure-controlled play.
- Continuous pitch bend, touch controlled modulation and FX.
- Strum-based FX intensity control.
- Theremin-style glide mode.
- Arpeggiator with speed control.
- FX system featuring color, space, time, glitch, stereo, ambient, noise layers; non-destructive or baked FX rendering.
- 4-track integrated DAW with live recording/overdubbing, synchronised loop playback, pre-FX recording, post-FX rendering, WAV export of tracks and full mix.
- Drum sequencer with 5 tracks (kick, snare, hat, tom, percussion), 16-step grid, multiple drum engines, rendered as dedicated DAW track.
- Advanced scale system and microtonal/non-equal temperament tuning
Availability
Pricing and availability isn’t yet known. The project has been backed and is now at “launching soon” status.
