Synth-a-Sette: The Original Cassette Sized Analog Synthesizer. Play Melodies On The Go With This Pocket Synth Or Create Your Own Banana Keyboard Using Conductivity

Got this for my 8 year old son for Christmas because he is starting to get interested in sound mixing.Huge hit! We immediately had to try it out with bananas and it works very well! Let me tell you - a kid figuring out how to play Jingle Bells on BANANAS on Christmas Day is the most hilarious thing ever.Even without the bananas, it works great. Is this the most comprehensive sound machine available? God, no. But it isn’t meant to be. It’s a fun novelty and achieves that in spades.

Great gift for the ones who love music well may sounds good and worth the money easy to learn songs on not too loud and it's right in your pocket

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My son loves it, so creative.

I'm a semi-professional musician, but usually playing guitar. Over the past few months I've been collecting a number of small, pocket-size synths and other instruments (tin whistle, ocarina, harmonica) just for fun -- and maybe some day doing a quirky band with odd instrumentation. ;-) The Synth-A-Sette seemed perfect for that, and in THAT capacity it does not disappoint. Works fine right out of the box. Read one instruction card, and you're on your way.The only tech hitch is you need to make sure you're completing a circuit somehow. Usually, just holding the device in your own two hands is enough. But if you use the alligator clips to connect to things, just make sure you follow instructions and make sure you're connected to ground in order to get a sound. (just to be clear, there's no physical danger in not being connected to ground -- you just might not get a sound).The only other hitch is the price seems a little high for a synth with no features other than tuning, vibrato, volume, and a power switch (although USB and battery power is nice to have). But really, the point of this synth is making simple music while also making interesting visuals. With the SEVERAL alligator clips included, you can connect it to anything conductive to control the notes. And I think that would look really cool in a video or live on stage.Customer support is also very good. I had some concerns when I first got this in the mail, but I got a very quick and very nice response from a human being that made sense to me. No speaking to a bot or anything like that.BOTTOM LINE: Pricey, yeah. But it makes a nice sound,. You can make actual music with it, and you can look super cool while doing it. Be creative. ;-)

My college age kids loved this groovy little synthesizer. It’s a novelty for sure, but they (two music majors) were jamming out. For what amounts to a circuit board, it seems well designed and durable. Plus the guy who makes them seems to offer really great customer support. This is probably a good fit for a musical STEM kid, or a musician who likes to fool around with retro synth sounds. Raspberry Pi nerds will geek out as well.

I bought this as a gift for my husband to play on its own and connected to a Stylophone. He is a musician (percussion and piano) and starting to experiment with making loops. This device is great (and so much fun) for what he does. It's well-made, the sound it produces is quite surprising for how small it is. Plus, after doing a bit of research about this business, you can tell that there is a lot of heart in it. I recommend it 100%.

My son who is three just broke his leg recently( and now its hard to get him to stay in one place) when I started playing with this synth he was intrigued and it turned into us just playing with music and science, and seeing how loud we could get it my auxing it into a sound bar. So much fun works great on forks.