Superbooth 2026: Meng Qi Wing Pinger 2.0 is a new handheld analog feedback system instrument based around stereo analog filters and a scriptable engine.
Many people associate China with companies like Behringer or Donner, which target the budget market. However—as was evident at Superbooth 2026 and as reported by acquaintances—a community of developer firms is currently emerging in China, bringing new and original concepts to the market.
One of the very early participants in this wave is Meng Qi, whom I have covered several times already. This year at Superbooth, Meng Qi showcased the next generation of his stereo resonator: the Wing Pinger 2.0.
Meng Qi Wing Pinger 2.0
Wing Pinger has undergone a massive transformation process in version 2.0. The original instrument was showcased at the Superbooth 2020 Home Edition (SB 19 prototype), featuring a touch-sensitive keyboard and very tactile knobs.
Meng Qi has transformed the Wing Pinger, version 2.0, from a retro-like device into a pocket-sized handheld instrument. Moving away from the touch keyboard and knobs toward a touch display with four clicky buttons.
The new touch user interface has a very retro and tracker-like vibe. A radical new way he goes here.
The idea behind the instrument remains. Wing Pinger 2.0 inherits the original Wing Pinger’s signature sound, built around filter pinging and feedback filters.
Its core consists of a pair of self-oscillating analog filters that enable cross-feedback. In version 2.0, the developer added a powerful supporting digital scripting engine inspired by Strudel, designed specifically around the WP 2.0 instrument itself.
Analog Filters Digital Core
This new engine allows things not possible with the first version of the Wing Pinger. It allows internal modulation of parameters, writing musical patterns, and creating unique interactions between internal blocks.
Since you have scripting capabilities, you can add other tools as well. Want a crazy, random generator? No problem—just script it and use it in the device.
By being held and played directly in the hand, Wing Pinger 2.0 turns a scriptable feedback system into a physical musical object — an instrument that’s programmable, yet responds to real-time interruption, guidance, and performance.
This combination of analog and digital allows users to achieve new, yet familiar, sonic experiments from the original Wing Pinger: plucked-string-like timbres, chord-progression-like motion, unstable rhythms, and chaotic textures.
First Impression
I remember the first prototype from SB 2019, when he presented it in the incredibly noisy hallway of the FEZ in Berlin. It was fascinating how different that instrument was back then. In 2020, it evolved further into a playable instrument.
Now, it has taken a massive leap toward becoming a feedback Synthesizer that makes far more possible than the original. Unfortunately, I missed the chance to visit the booth myself, but it looks very promising.
Meng Qi Wing Pinger 2.0 availability and price TBA.
More information here: Meng Qi
Can’t wait to hold it in my hands: that’s something that feels like fresh air!
Furthermore, Meng Qi is such a kind heart and (I think) one of the few real innovators in the synth community: with his creations he manages to bring together new ideas in sound synthesis with very usable and “tameable” interfaces, being capable to address both the noise enthusiasts and the musicians on the safer side of melody!
sounds like a fart on a mic
That demo is one of the worst things I’ve ever heard.
Yes, totally useless.
As I recall, the original Wing Pinger had limited ability to tune the resonators to non-equal temperaments. Hopefully, that is a more robust feature in 2.0.
It may be a bad demo, but a creative musician or sound designer should be able to imagine what can be done with something like this.