FRIZZ
FRIZZ is an alternative firmware for the CHOMPI. It turns the CHOMPI into a stereo effects box and looper for whatever you plug into its AUX input.
The white keys
Hold a key to play its effect, hold it and press SHIFT to latch it. Knobs 1 to 4 shape the last one you touched. Point at a key to see what it does.
Freezer
Grabs a slice of what is playing, from a whole bar down to a sixteenth, and repeats it while you hold the key. Turn up the roll for a beat-repeat build-up.
The freezer in the manualWhat it does
- A looper: free-length loops, or loops locked to whole bars of an incoming MIDI clock. Varispeed in fifths and octaves, reverse and scrub on the big transport knob.
- Twelve punch-in effects on the white keys: freezer, pitch shifter, wavefolder, bitcrusher, DJ filter, flanger, resonator, slicer, wow & flutter, tape stop, tempo-synced delay and reverb. Hold a key to play an effect, hold it and press SHIFT to latch it. Knobs 1-4 shape the last effect you touched.
- Four FX scenes on the dark keys: save every effect’s settings and latches, recall them at once for a drop, copy and delete them. Kept on the SD card. A fifth key clears every effect at once.
- An input/loop mix between the live input and the loop, plus input gain, output gain and a headphone feed that can carry the dry input alone, all on the VOLUME knob.
- A master compressor on its own key, and a safety limiter on every output.
- MIDI over TRS or USB: clock for quantized loops and the tempo-synced effects; from v0.11 also notes playing the keys, CCs setting every parameter, program changes recalling scenes.
FRIZZ is installed from the SD card like any CHOMPI firmware. It doesn’t touch the bootloader, and you can go back to the stock firmware the same way.
Get started
- Install
Put FRIZZ on your CHOMPI, update it, and go back to the stock firmware.
- Quick start
Your first loop and your first effects in ten minutes.
- Manual
Every control, every effect, every knob.