{"id":3624,"date":"2026-09-28T00:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/engram-is-a-sampler-that-turns-broken-ai-hallucinations-into-music\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T00:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:46:36","slug":"engram-is-a-sampler-that-turns-broken-ai-hallucinations-into-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/engram-is-a-sampler-that-turns-broken-ai-hallucinations-into-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Engram - an instrument with 16 pads, 8 knobs, a few buttons and all the usual nonsense on a rug.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Thoughtful Things\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-27-at-4.42.53-PM.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music startup <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtfulthings.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thoughtful Things<\/a> has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/evmaki\/engram-generative-audio-sampler-and-groovebox?ref=section-homepage-view-more-discovery-p1&amp;category_id=Q2F0ZWdvcnktMzM5#use-of-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engram<\/a>. It&rsquo;s a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn&rsquo;t Suno in a box, though. This isn&rsquo;t a \u00ab\u00a0push-button, get-song\u00a0\u00bb device, aimed at creating something that sounds ready for top-40 radio. It&rsquo;s about creating experimental, uncanny sounds and pushing AI audio models beyond their limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Engram isn&rsquo;t connected to the internet. Instead, it runs a \u00ab\u00a0tiny AI\u00a0\u00bb locally. According to the Kickstarter listing, the model is designed in-house and custom-trained. The company says: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/1001193\/engram-sampler-ai-hallucinations-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It&rsquo;s a sampler and groovebox [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}