Tulip - ESP32 based audio-music oriented computer - Touchscreen, Stereo out, MIDI

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This is the text from YouTube comments:
The Tulip Creative Computer is a board based on the #ESP32-S3 with a 1024x600 7” touchscreen #display, stereo #audio line out, MIDI in and out, I2C Mabee/Grove jack, and USB connection for a #computer #keyboard . The Tulip firmware boots right into #python on-screen and you can write and edit your own software right on the board itself. Tulip is meant for creative #coding for #music, #graphics and writing, with an excellent synthesizer library that includes excellent recreations of analog synths like the Juno-6 or FM like the DX-7.

I’m going to look at what Mabee/Grove are in the context of I2C.

OK,Grove is an Arduino term for their I2C shield and related things. Mabee remains a mystery.

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Mabee looks like a brand of I2C connected sensors and devices.

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Hmmm, it looks attractive but I wonder how much CPU power remains when driving this huge display output

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Me too, only $58.90 to find out. Although if you scroll down, the site now says sold out even though at the top it says “In Stock”.

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It certainly looks like a sleek and clever contraption.

I am partly tempted to place an order (after August 20th they say), since it is very reasonably priced for what it is, and seems to rely on a nice developers community.

I am just unsure about its actual use for me: pocket music coding device? Mostly. Self-contained groove box? Probably not my area. Portable synthesiser platform with sequencing functions (a-la-Zynthian)? Maybe. However, the CPU power is doubtful, the engines provision still quite limited and the DAC audio quality hard to discern in the video, recorded directly from the output of cheap speakers.

Honestly, I struggle to understand why the devs thought that it was a stroke of genius to advertise the thing with a demonstrator lady who fumbles around the screen, pretending to play and code with overgrown enameled nail extensions… :slightly_smiling_face:

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Are we sure that’s not one of the devs?

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lol this is just a toy for under 12 kids
that esp32 run on 240mhz and it is sloooooow it have gpu side for lcd rest is slooooow
so waste of time if u want anything serious

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That is perfectly possible indeed, and it would change the perspective entirely (on the ingenious advertiser, not on her unhandy nails) :wink: