Torso S4 with case and cover included, until 18 September

Torso Electronics is running an S4 campaign and we are in it. Every S4 bought from us comes with the carry case and the cover at no charge. That is 118 euro you do not pay. The window is fixed: 18 August to 18 September 2026, while stock lasts.

Why this is a good moment to look at it

Because S4 got its 2.2 update this year, and it reworks the part of the instrument that was always the most interesting and the most temperamental: the Mosaic engine.

Mosaic has always been about taking a short piece of sound and breaking it into grains you can move through. In 2.2 you can lock the buffer, holding one moment in place, and then travel through that frozen material with the new Scan control. Three modes: Stretch for slow drift, Position for a fixed point, Delay either synced or in milliseconds.

Feedback was reworked too. You can route the output back into the buffer and build textures that grow as you hold them. The old SOS behaviour stayed on as its own mode, so nobody lost the thing they had learned. Inside the grains there is new randomness: pitch, amplitude and reverse playback. Warp moved into Spray with new modes. And Mosaic can now run independently of playback, which turns frozen material into a performance layer of its own.

The rest of 2.2 is housekeeping, the kind that never makes a feature list but you feel within an hour: steadier recording and playback across Disc and Tape, a clearer waveform display, better monitoring behaviour, improved Sync handling in Disc, and lower CPU load when the instrument is sitting idle. We covered the previous big release in our piece on OS 2.0.

What is actually in the box

The Carry Case is the hard one, for transport. If your S4 leaves the room for rehearsals or a stage, this is not an accessory, it is the condition for it arriving intact.

The Cover is for the other situation, the daily one, where the instrument sits on a desk collecting dust between sessions. Sounds trivial right up to the evening you are cleaning grit out of an encoder.

Separately they are 59 euro and 59 euro. In the bundle they are nothing: you pay 820 euro, the price of the S4 on its own.

Who it suits, and who should walk away

S4 makes sense if you like working on material rather than on presets. You record four seconds of anything and spend the next half hour taking it apart. People who work that way know it by the end of the first evening.

Now the honest half, because we would rather say it here than read it on a return form. If you want a conventional sampler for building beats out of ready-made packs, S4 will feel like an odd choice, and a Torso T1 as a sequencer, or a straightforward groovebox, will get you there faster. S4 rewards patience and punishes hurry. A free case does not change that.

Our showroom at Nowogrodzka 6A/102 in Warsaw has an S4 plugged in and nobody will rush you off it. Free 30-day Test-Drive applies, 36-month warranty, and we ship to every EU country.

The campaign ends on 18 September 2026, or earlier if stock runs out. That is the manufacturer's condition rather than a marketing device, so we will not be extending it afterwards.

Straight answers

How do I order so the extras are included?

Pick the S4 bundle with case and cover rather than the plain sampler page. Everything sits in one line item, with nothing to request and no code to enter.

Is the 2.2 update paid?

No. S4 updates are free. You download them from the Torso Electronics site and install them yourself.

Does 2.2 break older projects?

The old SOS behaviour is kept as its own mode, so earlier work still behaves. The new feedback is an addition, not a replacement.

A granular sampler is the kind of instrument that eats an evening and hands back twenty seconds of material you keep returning to a year later. For the next month it turns up packed for travel. Come and hear one before the stock runs out or September does.

About the author

Michał Kaniuszkiewicz is a content manager and SEO specialist at Wired Tunes. He creates and optimizes content that helps readers find useful information about music, gear, and sound. Beyond his editorial work, he has been making music for 8 years in hip-hop, pop, and electronic genres — giving him insight into the subject not just from an SEO perspective, but from the inside, as a practicing musician and producer. This experience allows him to create content that's equally useful and clear for both beginners and experienced listeners and music creators.

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