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Robotspeak: An electronic musician’s toy store

Robotspeak does not sell actual robots — though I never tired of getting that question from people who wandered through the door. There are many delightful things you buy on San Francisco’s historic Haight Street, but to the best of my knowledge, robots are not one of them.

In spite of the occasional befuddlement of robot shoppers, Robotspeak is a fitting name for a shop that specializes in the type of unique audio gear and music recording software perfect for composing symphonies of synthetic bleeps and squelches.

Robotspeak’s walls are lined with synthesizers, drum machines, mixers, effect pedals, and MIDI controllers. But more importantly, the shop is filled with the kind of geektastic sound toys that bigger stores wouldn’t risk carrying.
via cnet

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