Cyberstep KDJ-ONE portable workstation for musicians soon on KickStarter

After a two-year absence, Cyberstep announces that its portable workstation project for musicians should soon be available.

We discovered Cyberstep and its KDJ-ONE back in 2011 at NAMM, and we met them again one year later at Musikmesse, but since then, nothing! The team reworked the concept and changed the design of its portable workstation that now looks less like a giant Game Boy, and improved its specifications, with a new ARM Cortex-A8 1GHz CPU.

Here are the specifications announced on the Cyberstep website, changes can still happen before the final version:

5” WVGA touch screen (800 × 480 resolution)
512MB of memory
4GB SSD drive
External storage on USB
Powered by a Lithium Ion rechargeable battery
16 velocity-sensitive pads
Octave up/down, volume and Tap Tempo buttons
Controllers: D Pad, 4 buttons, jog wheel, pitch bend and modulation stick
64 voices of polyphony
14MB of memory for the waveforms (expandable)
240 multi-layer waveforms
2 oscillators with 10 algorithms
7 types of filters
4 modulators with 10 algorithms (including a Step Modulator)
200 synth patches, 100 drum kits and 100 audio clips included
20 types of effects, 2 Systems per track and master effect
6-track/pattern sequencer with loop and step recording, automation recording
Piano Roll
999 bars per pattern, 999 patterns per project, 99 Songs per project and 9 999 bars per Song
Tempo from 40 to 400 BPM
Mic/line input
Line output
Headphone output
Built-in microphone
2 × 1W speakers (250Hz – 20kHz)
USB 2.0 host and micro USB ports
Dimensions: 174.2 × 115.5 × 29.5mm
Weight : 480g

Cyberstep will soon launch a KickStarter campaign to fund its KDJ-ONE and finally launch the commercial version. You can follow the evolution of the project at www.kdj-one.com and discover the machine in this presentation featuring Sid Wilson, an early adopter of the workstation: