ARPIE - MIDI Arpeggiator [FULLY CONSTRUCTED]

Name: ARPIE - MIDI Arpeggiator [FULLY CONSTRUCTED]
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Price: 215.00 USD
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Rating: 4.92 (18 reviews)

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ARPIE: A compact, hackable hardware MIDI arpeggiator!

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ARPIE: A compact, hackable hardware MIDI arpeggiator!

The ARPIE - MIDI Arpeggiator designed by Jason Hotchkiss, fully constructed and tested. Simple to use but huge on features, the ARPIE enables you to send arpeggiated chords via MIDI to any Synthesiz…

Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.94)

Documentation: (4.89)

Shipping: (4.83)

Communication: (5.00)

Jeffery | March 20, 2022

Mailed straight away!

Totally well-done job. The seller shipped with no delay and sent me links to the document database. Very cool!

Lance | June 3, 2020

ARPIE IS AMAZING AND FUN!

The ARPIE is the perfect addition to my synths that lacked an arpeggiator. I'm glad it came with a quick guide to make navigating on the Arpie easy! I was going to upgrade my Juno 106 to a Kiwi but was having some doubts. When I discovered the ARPIE and found out how well it works with my Juno, I was instantly satisfied. Shipment was quick, quality is nice, and communication was fast! Would definitely recommend this product to anyone looking for a hardware arpeggiator.

Luc | Dec. 15, 2018

Tiny arp powerhouse

Great tiny machine, real arp powerhouse, poly mode is insane. The 16steps for velocity or gate for example is ofc limited but practically turns out great and makes it more authentic, its small but good to operate. Super invention, super construction. Use it live with my technojazz collective plastik.soldiers. Thanks so much!

Ashley | Nov. 21, 2018

It's Alive

I bought one of these so that I could make Italo-Disco without having to enter the notes manually, and also because my Arp Odyssey doesn't have an arpeggiator. I am a satisfied customer. It's a terrific little arpeggiator with a couple of quirks. On the positive side it's tiny, battery-powered, surprisingly well-put-together for a home-made unit. I use it synced up via MIDI to Logic. It syncs reliably; it syncs immediately; it remains synced; it doesn't stutter or fall out of time, all of which sounds trivial but I have used professional equipment that doesn't even do that. Layering multiple bouncing arpeggios on top of each other is a breeze.

The front panel has a bewildering array of controls but in practice PATN, SPAN, GATE, MODE, and RATE are self-explanatory and enough to get by, plus INST for extra spiciness. I bought my unit in November 2018. It is apparently a V5 unit. It comes with a cheat sheet, which is useful because the online manual is slightly out of date. I admit that I've only used it as a synced arpeggiator playing individual lines of notes rather than a live performance tool. It will also transmit accent information, and can transmit a separate accent channel. The only interface is MIDI, there's no CV/GATE or USB, but on the positive side the use of MIDI raises the interesting possibility of running arpeggios through cheap old digital synths. It has a separate MIDI sync input, potentially useful if you're playing live with everybody synced up to a master MIDI clock.

Also the lights look wonderful. Mine is the thin white Duke model, black letters and bright white LEDs like a Station to Station-era David Bowie stage set. The interior has some blue LEDs that flash when they feel like it.

Quirks? The random pattern function doesn't work as I expected, although it's described correctly in the manual; instead of randomly bouncing from note to note it generates a random sequence when you initially play the chord and the cycles through it repeatedly, so it doesn't sound random. There's a way of bypassing the arpeggiator entirely if you want to solo but it takes a bit of digging in the manual to find out how, and it makes the HOLD LED go crazy. HOLD will hold a sequence, and you can use an external keyboard to transpose it up and down - but for some reason the unit also transmits the incoming keyboard notes to the output, which sounds odd. When HOLD is turned on it would make more sense to route incoming notes purely to the arpeggiator engine.

It might just be the batteries I'm using, but the battery holder is very tight, to the extent I have to use a screwdriver to lever the battery out. The MIDI ports are a bit stiff too, which also worries me, but I imagine they'll loosen up over time. This is assuming you ever want to unplug the unit. You might leave it on all the time.

At £120 it seems expensive but there's nothing quite like it; some synthesisers output arpeggios but are much more expensive, some software plug-ins will arpeggiate but aren't as immediate, other hardware arpeggiators aren't as functional, step sequencers are more complex and the leading value-orientated step sequencers seem to have trouble syncing reliably. I imagine MIDI-CV interface and USB power would just add to the cost. Four stars because nothing is perfect, plus one star because it feels bad to give it four stars.

Sean | Oct. 30, 2018

Mind. Blown.

I normally build projects and ARPIE kit has excellent documentation, but I've only found ARPIE recently and I wanted to quickly give it a try. I don't have time to build these days, so I jumped on the chance to buy one already built. The fully constructed MidiError build was delivered surprisingly fast to the USA and I was able to drop a 9v in and fire it up... and wow. Using the provided "cheat sheet" I was able to grasp the workings of it rather quickly. ARPIE is one of the most amazing things I've ever used. And with help of the documentation and some add-on boards, I am expanding it and I'm even going to get into the code to add some custom knobs (wish me luck!). This MidiError build is clean, solid, and tested. And Chris at MidiError was *very* helpful (and patient) when it came to my questions about expanding. I don't have enough stars for this review!!! NOTE TO BUYERS: When shopping, I saw build "Arpie" builds on eBay with a AA battery shipped from China -- I knew better than to buy one of those, and I hope you will know better as well.

Steven | July 19, 2018

Love it

Really cool little toy. Useful and dynamic. The instructions are pretty thorough. I was a little difficult to get a 9V battery in, but other than that, It's been a positive experience so far.

Stefan | July 9, 2018

Very inspiring midi arpeggiator

I bought two Arpies for my analogue modular gear in conjunction with Midi to CV converters. These are very inspiring devices - I like the second pattern for velocity information and the well thought layout for so many functions. It takes some time to get used to it, but once you learned about the second functions and special features it´s a very user friendly device. Much better than an Oberheim Cyclone in my opinion. Very tight Midi sync also. Highly recommended for every electronic musician!

Marcus | July 3, 2018

Amazing piece of kit

Totally love the arpie and it has improved my Juno 106 massively

Didn't think that was possible.

Excellent seller and the kit was well built

well recommended

Ivan | May 29, 2018

Great little thing!

When I bought my Juno 106 I was jealous about the arpeggiattor of the older models, but now with ARPIE I have nothing to miss, even I have now more flexibility to work with arpeggios compared with the classics Juno 6 and 60. Another good thing is that the learning curve is not steep at all. Only downside is you can't save your setting so no other option than exercise your memory, that's why I only give 4 stars, otherwise would be just perfect!

Nick | March 31, 2018

Very good

This little gem is ridiculously good .It has revitalised some old bits of kit in my studio that were for sale.

Ilia | March 17, 2018

Arpie - compact midi arpeggiator

I'm very happy to finally receive and try out Midierror's Arpie. Seller was quite communicable, I've always received answers for my quiestions about the delivery. Shipping itself was pretty quick. The device itself is purely a magic box, full of nice surprises, very easy to learn and use, and has great capabilities. There is still plenty for me to find out about proper using it for my purposes (electronic music making). Though, as I said, the process of learning and using Arpie is a pure pleasure. Thank you very much!

Eric | March 12, 2018

Expertly built, terrific shipping speed, great documentation

Terrific experience overall. Great instructions, which arrived ahead of the (fast!) shipment. Solder/assembly is expert and super-clean. Very fun instrument. I highly recommend Midierror!

Robert | Aug. 3, 2017

Great little thing

The ARPIE is a great device and it´s built in high quality. Works fine and the documentation is also simple to understand even for someone like me whose first language is not english...

Dirk | March 24, 2017

Very good product, very good support

This is a great little device, very inspiring and easy to use , it may look complicated but it isn't.

Robin | Feb. 26, 2017

Excellent service for an excellent device.

Very quick / personal handling. I believe I received The Arpie and it's manuals within 4 working days (in France).
As for The Arpie itself: It's truly a fun machine that is user-friendly / approachable yet can go quite in-depth as well. Made me love my Juno106 even more.

Thorsten | Jan. 30, 2017

Best Arpeggiator you can buy!

Before the Arpie I owned a "Oberheim" Cyclone from which is incredible hard to get what you want...and some software arps.
With the Arpie it is a pleasure to program and play with. Everything is right there where you want it to be.
The idea of rhythm apreggiation is very inspiring. I am thinking about buying a second one to make a little
"Arp Orchester". Arpie is simply perfect in every way! Thanks.

Paul | May 26, 2016

Great Arp and Great Service

Arrived super quick, well packed and ready to go with and quick start instruction sheet. Also got an email with operating and support instructions.

Just had a quick play with the ARPIE, works really well and just what I was looking for - great functionality

Steve | Jan. 13, 2016

Highly recommended if you want a pre-built ARPIE

The product itself is exactly what I was after - a multi-function arpeggiator with the option to reprogram it myself if I wasn't happy with anything. I've not had much chance to try all the modes so far, but so far, so good.

I found the price for this pre-built version to be very reasonable given my own poor soldering skills and lack of time to solder everything, test it, diagnose dodgy joints, resolder, fail to fix it, put the board in a drawer for 3 months and may be get it working then.

The product arrived quickly in full working order. Documentation arrived as an attachment to a friendly email.

I'm very happy with the product and the service. Thanks very much.

Now to start using it...

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Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Mailed straight away!

ARPIE IS AMAZING AND FUN!

Tiny arp powerhouse

It's Alive

Mind. Blown.

Love it

Very inspiring midi arpeggiator

Amazing piece of kit

Great little thing!

Very good

Arpie - compact midi arpeggiator

Expertly built, terrific shipping speed, great documentation

Great little thing

Very good product, very good support

Excellent service for an excellent device.

Best Arpeggiator you can buy!

Great Arp and Great Service

Highly recommended if you want a pre-built ARPIE

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