OTTO Slices Through Audio Samples

What you see in the video above is OTTO – an electronic musical instrument for realtime manual beat slicing of audio samples. Developed by Luca De Rosso, this started off as a thesis project for his Masters degree in Visual and Multimedia Communications at IUAV University of Venice, and is powered using the Arduino open-source hardware platform and Cycling ’74′s Max/MSP software. Pretty zany stuff which mere mortals cannot comprehend, but audiophiles should check out the quality of his work.