NTS-1 : Tiny beast

At first view the NTS-1 looks like a monotron, but really in terms of capabilities it's more like a Volca except with many more features!

The stock sounds and effects are already really good and the fact that you can run external audio in and use it as a tiny effects box is just fantastic.

Even though programming your own custom oscillators is not trivial this is really a nice feature. There are already quite some 3rd party vendors selling unique modules for this.

One of the earlier grievances was the automatic power-off after not touching any buttons (which would happen often when using it only for effects), but this has since been made optional in a firmware update.

The only downside I see for it at this point is the lack of sending chords to the arpeggiator. Currently it only responds to single notes, but it would be great if in the future we could send it chords and it will cycle over those.

Overall a fantastic little synth and effects processor in a tiny package for a small price!