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summary: "Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn't Suno in a box, though. This isn't a \"push-button, get-song\" device, aimed at creating something that sounds ready for top-40 […]"
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# Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music

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**Published:** 2026-09-27T20:46:36.000Z
**Category:** Products
**Topics:** llm

## Summary

Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram\. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds\. This isn't Suno in a box, though\. This isn't a "push\-button, get\-song" device, aimed at creating something that sounds ready for top\-40 \[…\]

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1001193/engram-sampler-ai-hallucinations-music>)

