*******🤔As someone looking for A great small footprint , one hand accompaniment Tool I Love the concept but, $263 for a one shot pony is a little much. ANY video I see has the same chords and synth sound. I was ready to pull trigger on a purchase but, price point and sound limitation got me hemmed up!!******* I could justify a one trick if it were half that price and I didn't have to Wait till August to receive it!!🥱
This is $340, but if you buy it in Korea, tax and shipping costs are added, making it $400. In Korea, a 10% tax is added when the product price is more than $200(usa)😢😢😢
For this price I could have a lumi key, expanded my possibilities and Knowledge about music at the same time. Overpriced toy for the money. But looks fun
Hey! I appreciate your thoughts here. Lumi key is a midi controller, you would need a laptop to use it with. This is a standalone synth you can bring in your pocket (that can also be used as a midi controller). Different use cases. HiChord has 1 button chords that show you how to play them on piano, so is a great learning tool. This video is just the 3d printed prototype. The funds from the kickstarter are being used to bring the commercial HiChord up to the build quality of something like the Lumi. :D
People complaining about the price have no idea how much expensive it is to produce small batches of electronic products. This is also a niche product that will appeal/make sense to a very small market. The profit margins will be much smaller than you think. Is it worth it at $250 USD? Idk I am not the target market. Is that number due to small-medium batch production? Highly likely as pricing it lower just might not make sense financially to the product maker. Don’t like it? don’t buy it and move on. It’s as simple as that.
Ah, the idiot again, hello! I own a chompi, i'm buying this thing, i own 10 daws and i'm more competent than you are. Chill out, write some good songs. Money comes with that and then you can stop being so damn insufferable.
Heyyo! I feel you, this video is just our 3d printed prototype. We have used the funds from the Kickstarter campaign to create custom tooling for injection molding, that will make the kickstarter and commercial units perfectly aligned using high-quality materials. As a one-dude startup without investment, this was our only path to the market! :)
yea completely agree and especially for something over 200 dollars, youd really want to be able to mess around and change more functions, I hate the idea of just making cheap music equipment expensive cause its new, just completely destroys the market for cool new devices like this.
It already has teenage engineering price edit: not complaining, the creator has full right to set any price he wants. And seems like people purchasing it even for this buck
Totally agreed! This is just the janky 3d printed prototype. The commercial/kickstarter units are much more detailed and aligned :).The funds from the kickstarter went right into the fine detail and material selection
I understand how much work goes into making a product like this, but being priced at that point is going to make this a forgotten footnote really quickly. This is really cool as a proof of concept though, and I really hope you get a lot of feedback. I think I could see a second implementation with more robust features being worth that pricepoint, but it's not something people are going to buy for the sound, and the portability doesn't seem like a huge advantage if it's only the chords you're bringing around. I'm not a music theory major either so if I was to mess around with programming interesting chord sequences I probably already have the ability to do that without an extra device. It also seems limited in that it doesn't seem to have the ability to do sus9 chords which are some insanely rich, beautiful sounding chords that I apparently use quite a bit in my music. Coming back to the sound as well, it seems to just be a basic synth combined with a chord playing feature that comes standard with a lot of DAW options out there. The only genuine difference is this gives you the ability to play pre-made chords while you're out and about and I really just don't see a large market there. I hope that if this doesn't make the sales you hope for that you continue what you're doing though, you have a really interesting concept here. I could see this idea working well in a portable drum machine with a Mini SD card slot for you to load your own samples onto. I could also see this working for an arpeggiator, especially a bass one. For me personally though, if this were a drum machine where I could load my own sounds and have a tactile sequencer you'd have my wallet
@@DeeDeeCHAUNCEY I don't think that would solve the issue tbh. It seems like the pricepoint is largely because of how much each unit would cost to produce, not so much what it's actually worth. Even at $49 the idea at its core doesn't really answer a need, or at least not in a really meaningful way. You can get apps on your phone that are either free, or less than $50 that will do what this product does and more, but they run into the same issue. "If I'm putting all this effort into my sketches, I probably don't need such a fancy pen"
This is one of the worst comments i've ever seen on youtube. They've 7x'd their goal, don't be so fucking condescending. You don't get it, you can't afford it; move along.
@@notreally-sf3df Shut up lmfao if someone doesn't want feedback on their content it's easy to turn comments off. I'm giving MY opinion on this based on similar products I've seen get kickstarted into obscurity. At no point am I being condescending, there's plenty of "wow omg" comments if all you wanna see is positive feedback. I get it, you don't like my opinion; be less fragile.
@@notreally-sf3df Actually, scratch that last comment. This doesn't have a confirmed recording feature bruh, this seems like a very underbaked idea that had potential to deliver a lot more at that pricepoint.
