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i'm glad you asked.  actually, they were created by the same lab under the supervision of nu age "experimentalists."   new kids v. captain planet, a common philosophical misconception..  metaphorically, they are the same.

it's awesome.

the shell looks really nice.  i don't think it's a groovebox in the sense i was thinking.  it doesn't have sequencing abilities from what i can tell.  some of the parameters are accessible physically and others i think you have to use a program to change.  the sound is great.  it doesn't seem to be for sale yet.  it looks like it will be ~$600.

i would love to have one of these but it would be out of my price range.  it looks very similar to homemade sid synths i saw years ago.

the originators.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acFkRdMAJ4w

that does seem to be chipstep

are you sure?  isn't dub step at the same speed as dnb?

from my experience "step" implies a variation on jungle or drum and bass themes. 

drum and bass is at a fast bpm, maybe from 160-190.  or faster or slower. 

i like 174bpm.  when you write at that speed you can also do beats at 87bpm. 

so, you can have a a hip hop speed beat with drum and bass breaks mixed inside of it.  you can switch back and forth between the two types of beats and run the song at the same tempo. 

if you put raw chip created sound waves over top of hip hop and drum and bass (or jungle) beats it might sound cool.  using an lfo (low frequency oscillator) and other  modulations you can make sounds that morph over time. 

one way to make jungle etc is to sample a bunch of morphing synth sounds and then sequence them over beats. 

to create more complex melodies and harmonics you can use a scale, which is a set of notes that go together.  a scale might be D, F, G, G#, A, C, C#, and then back to D.  if you're song is the D scale i just wrote, you can play around with those notes and it will mostly go together.