I’ve preordered a Dirtywave M8 which seems like an awesome piece of gear and it’s got me really excited at the prospect of using interesting dedicated hardware machines that I can take to the park or mess with on the sofa.

The obvious ones I’ve come across so far are:

• Korg Volca range
• Roland mini synths and aira compact ranges
• Teenage Engineering OP and POs

But these all seem a little uninteresting to me and just rehashed tiny versions of older gear and/or aimed at lo-fi producers.

Some less obvious ones that have my attention are:

• Monome Norns
• 1010music lemondrop, fireball & razzmatazz (not battery powered but easily powered by a USB powerbank)
• Bastl microgranny and kastl
• Korg NTS-1
• Korg Monotrons
• Audiothingies Micromonsta 2 (again not battery powered but can be via powerbank)

Are there any you know of that fit the bill?