WoFi ’80s-inspired sample synth blasting on Kickstarter

Many people have a soft spot for the 1980s sampling keyboards, whether they were there and owned them at the time, or are younger but look back and enjoy the nostalgia.

Now comes Wofi, a portable cloud-connected sample synthesiser from Kiviak Instruments which takes a lot of its inspiration from those early instruments, yet is bang up to date and nearly fully funded on its Kickstarter campaign.

The Wofi is based on subtractive synthesis, and has a step sequencer and audio effects built in. It’s designed to be easy to get started and operate, and features plenty of controls plus a bright display screen for such tasks as selecting or editing samples.

It can connect to a cloud service but the creators say the keyboard is still fully functional if you choose not to connect (or if at some point in the future the cloud service no longer exists).

Features

record samples effortlessly with the internal microphone or the stereo input
play any recorded sample chromatically with 10-voice polyphony

transform the sample with the different emulated sample players and the rich synthesizer interface with: an envelope, a low-pass filter, an LFO, etc…
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sequence notes and parameters and play along with it

use it on the go with its internal battery, microphone, and speaker
… or in your studio with other machines, thanks to its I/O for midi, cv/gate, audio, and analog sync. All the signal flows go two ways : inward and outward; you can configure it however you want.
get fresh samples and patches from mywo.fi or share yours effortlessly directly from your WoFi thanks to its internal wifi chipset

sleek interface without menu diving to foster the creativity flow

Technical Details

PLAYER

48kHz / 16bits
??Direct loading from the flash memory, no preloading

10-voice polyphony

RECORDER

48kHz / 16 bits mono
??Line / dynamic microphone / integrated microphone

??Gain adiust -6dB + 22dB
Eurorack level compliant

MEMORY

Flash embedded memory: 100 MBytes

??Flash cartridge memory: 100 MBytes
Up to 200 User Patchs + 50 Presets

SEQUENCER

16 steps track for notes

16 keys track for parameters sequencing

DSP

Real time processing (No Preprocessing)
??Interpolation modes: sample & hold, linear, whittaker-shannon

??Pitch shift
??Time stretch
??Bit crusher

??Texturer
??Machine rendering emulation
??Resonant state variable filter (12dB/o-24dB/0)
Parameter modulation from different sources enveloppe, LFO, sequencer automations, external modulation (CV/MIDI), after touch, touch strip