{"id":152482,"date":"2026-03-03T18:27:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=152482"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:27:53","slug":"free-chompi-tempo-groovebox-firmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/03\/03\/free-chompi-tempo-groovebox-firmware\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Chompi TEMPO Groovebox Firmware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CHOMPI: TEMPO \u2013 Overview\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1--hmX8B2vg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Chase Bliss<\/strong> today introduced <strong>TEMPO<\/strong> &#8211; a free alternate firmware for their <strong>CHOMPI<\/strong> portable sampler that turns it into an intuitive groovebox.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what they have to say about it:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;The new TEMPO firmware will change your CHOMPI into an entirely new instrument. It\u2019s an alternate imagining of what CHOMPI would be like as a groovebox \u2013 a syncable pattern-maker that is hands-on and as intuitive as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And, importantly, it\u2019s free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing and Availability:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>TEMPO<\/strong> firmware is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chompiclub.com\/firmware\">available<\/a> now as a free download. The CHOMPI is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chompiclub.com\/chompi\">available<\/a> for $599 USD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chase Bliss today introduced TEMPO &#8211; a free alternate firmware for their CHOMPI portable sampler that turns it into groovebox.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/03\/03\/free-chompi-tempo-groovebox-firmware\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free Chompi TEMPO Groovebox Firmware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,36],"tags":[35616,36169,522],"class_list":["post-152482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drum-machines-groove-boxes","category-samplers","tag-chase-bliss","tag-chase-bliss-chompi","tag-groovebox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/chompi-sampler.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152483,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152482\/revisions\/152483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}