Sonicware's LIVEN Texture Lab - portable granular synth

[joeyluck]

Anybody here own one of these?

Not to be confused with Lectric Panda's Torsion Texture Lab...

https://sonicware.jp/pages/liven-texturelab



I was looking around for a hardware granular synth. Of course I've had my eye on the Tasty Chips GR-1, which looks like so much fun with its display and position slider, but it does cost a bit more.

The LIVEN Texture Lab has no waveform display, but still looks fun and has a low price of $239, so I'm considering it. It has line input for sampling, can be battery powered, and even has a built-in speaker. Anybody here have any experience with one of these?

Here's a few videos: