This is a weird analog polysynth
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- So Dreadbox hired me to demo Telepathy Bundle: A very interesting polysynth, made up of 6 monosynth modules working together via MIDI. Each voice can be slightly (or VERY) different to one another...all fed into a unique mixer. For details on how Telepathy or setup works please RTFM - in this video I'll focus on making sounds!
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▶︎ Dreadbox Telepathy Bundle: www.dreadbox-fx.com/telepathy...
▶︎ Torso T1: torsoelectronics.com/t-1/
▶︎ Keystep 37: www.arturia.com/products/hybr...
▶︎ Drum Sequencer: makingsoundmachines.com/stolp...
▶︎ Drum Voice: tubbutec.de/6m0d6/
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Montage!
00:43 What is it?!
3:33 A monotimbral polysynth
12:22 A multitimbral polysynth
16:15 A 6-voice monosynth
20:48 All the sounds that make a track
Especially the last jam, but even before, i had lots of Aphex Twin vibes here. Some occasional Radiohead too. Cheers from Athens. Dreadbox got this one right.
Telepathy using cables is like teleportation using airplanes.
I suppose it COULD have been bluetooth, but ya gotta cut them a little poetic license
Also plane travel sometimes does feel like teleporting I find (wake up in yorkshire, go to bed in california etc)
Haha, I know that quite well@@PortableCoincidenceMachine
And to make matters worse, it all ends up in psychosis.
Or have the midi inputs all normalize to the previous module via small cables on the back of the module.
Very Very Nice.
Good work Dreadbox.
Good work Mylar.
Your enthusiasm exploring sounds is both inspirational and contagious! Thanks for doing what you do; best on UA-cam.
thanks 🙌🙌🙌
Great vid bro. I have a Typhon, and that thing sounds HUGE. now I have to get one of these. It is really amazing. Genius.
Sweet spot central. My arteries are getting clogged this thing is so buttery. Great work again Mylar!!!!! Much appreciation for your content.
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fingers crossed for a few new diy kit modules from dreadbox this year
Patch and playing at 13:38 left me absolutely speechless. What a gem of a little system.
That end track, wow ! 💛
Nice groovebox!
dreadbox makes the nicest stuff imo. nice demo!
This thing sounds absolutely incredible 😮 Great video
I have the Psychosis... cool little stereo mixer... you never know where the voices come from...
Cool as hell! I used to do something similar using the Poly mode on the Squart Hermod sequencer, a 4 voice synth with 4 unique voices. It was a cool experiment but usually kinda hard to get very usable sounds, I'm guessing having similar core oscillators and filter flavors helps stuff gel a little better. So many nice sounds here.
Dude, that last jam. wtf... So clean.
some cool pad sounds there!
Super nice concept! Awesome demo as well! Dreadbox are the masters of characterful analogue sound. The Nymphes is such a bliss, too. Btw, did I hear 'Scheiße' at some point?!
Man, you make the most fun bleeps.
🙌 thanks m8
That ffffffffuck near the end was great 😂 lovely stuff!!!
Meant to bleep that but it snuck in(!) Welp, one sometimes can’t help it.
More killer vibes from Dreadbox.hoping for more diy kits this year!
What an interesting company. I'd love to see them go further with the hardware and make a full on polysynth with a keyboard and everything. Jeez this is sounding good!
Oof. These things sound bloody great. They really do pack a huge wallop into
A small package and they are reet clever to boot. Excellent examples as ever. With this and the ART on the way that thick poly just got a lot easier.
What is the ART you speak of
@@ukuranew tech from tiptop audio :)
@@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES oooh. Which module youre referring to? they have a few art modules what would you recommend in addition to the telepathy?
Beautiful sounds. Dreadbox have something special
The Torso is such a cool and functional part of the set up.
It sounds just so so so good!
"But suffice to say, it does it. And in this video, we're going to do it." 😂 That made me laugh an unreasonable amount. Also woow, I'm amazed such a simple idea can make such complex sounds! It reminds me of Native Instruments Rounds when it's cycling between the voices. Gorgeous.
Ha, thanks Alex!! Yeah and ofc the idea is one we can pretty easily apply with layering in a DAW, or clever MIDI routing.
@@mylarmelodies Using Telepathy modules looks a lot more fun!
My lord that makes some very nice sounds!
Another good one. Thanks sausage
You’re welcome petal 🌭
That Psychosis module's effect kind of reminds me of the Super 6 stereo staging. What with being able to swirl each voice independently, and modulate that, instead of just splitting voices into stereo or randomising the stereo image with each note. Pretty cool.
Reet proper... I hope Dreadbox were paying you for this, as I think you have absolutely showcased what this thing can do.. Top stuff
Thanks! Yea this is a paid demo as I’m full time making videos (gotta pay that child care!! 🥶). I didn’t get to keep the machine alas, I wouldn’t mind having at least a few telepathies to make a poly but I have got a Nymphes…
Holy amazeballs.
Alright Sausage, I hope you took that end demo patch and turned it into a whole track. Sounds lovely.
Sounds soo good. Beautiful machine and amazing demo. Wondering what's your drums setup here, also really nice. Cheers
That’s the Making Sound Machines Stolperbeats sequencing the 6mod6 - defo a good combo, enjoying it
Thanks! Def checking those out
A lot of these sound examples remind me of my janky old Soviet polysynth. :O
I'd love to get this set. The price, however, costs nearly twice what I paid for the Soviet synth. xD
What synth?
WOW, this is cool.
Inspiring and GAS inducing as always!
Oh man. Can we pls get that last jam as a single? Whole video was also a joy too, couldn't stop grinning. Thanks
As the modular purists cluck their tongues, the merger of MIDI and the eurorack world continues to pay dividends. Very cool product and a crazy good value proposition. That demo track at the end may have cost me some money sir.
Thinking of ditching my Doepfer A-111-4 and the setup I built around it for this. Life is too short for turning 4 oscillators to get pretty poly stuff.
Budget alternative: take the free stock VCO in VCV rack and apply polyphonic modulation. Each voice can have independent pitch/filter/PWM LFO for example, up to 16 voices. For free!
Ah yeah but it's not real analogue magic voodoo or whatever. Same trick though, this seems fairly unique in hardware so kudos to Dreadbox for doing something different. Sounds great too.
Some delish Vordhosbn vibes.
I love this thing.
It is the coolest groovebox of 2024
lovely
This just might be the gateway into modular that I’m afraid to dive into…. infinite amount of AFX MODES …Freaking lush simplicity. 👾… I’ll just need a sampler 🌌 ….dreadbox read our minds 👺
Cool but I need to see this compared to a proper poly synth at the similar price. They should have included angled TRS cables sized to like the modules. Fail there.
yeah would definitely have to get some right angled TRS cables seen to. It’d be annoying reaching over cables all the time.
So this is basically a simplified Nymphes where each voice can be individually messed with. Nice! Not for me, but nice.
Sounds simply beautiful! But yeah, each voice is $300… sooo… 👀
Look at the price of the actual bundle! (The thing in the video is a bundle you can buy which is significantly cheaper than buying all the parts separately)
@@mylarmelodies $1200 isn’t crazy for a true analog poly, especially one with patch points. Cool
Interesting concept, and it sounds awesome :) My one worry is that the interface of the modules is a bit difficult to work with, Maybe you'd get used to it, but I really kindof prefer a knob per function kind of thing.
It’s defo not like using a trad poly (but then it isn’t one!) but FWIW it wasn’t too hard to learn the structure and then have a good idea how to bang thru and edit it. But one major thing to highlight is you can control it with MIDI CCs, so the option is there to map something to control it (hardware or software!).
Not to mention it'd be at least twice the size if it was knob-per-function! Sizecrafices!
I’m holding my breath for a full featured flagship semi modular keyboard poly from them. Nymphes combined with this, with more knobs and sliders. Pleeeeeease.
I love my Dreadbox Typhons- but having experienced a couple of their modules, I find that I do not like their reliance on sliders. They strike me as somehow ‘rootless’… This, however, sounds huge.
WOW so amazing sounds , love it ...Just the panel design that looks horrible i would say. Not that ugly but i would have bought it with a slick designed panel.
Great demo! I please make a sound pack. Love these sounds, but that UI looks kinda headscratchy
Seems like it would be nice if it could allow the master to manage voice allocation while still using CV? Manual doesn't seem to suggest it can, but looks like a nice module. Their other modules in the line are also quite good value for money.
A really flexible CV controller (in my case keyboard) would be helpful. The Arturia Keystep Pro gets you 4 zones I think but doesn’t have any poly address of its own unfortunately. Like you can’t play all zones at once for poly. I guess there’s nothing out there so far.
This synth sounds incredible - not sure quite how the interface works - but what a beautiful range of sounds.
One thing though, sometimes sounds a bit out of tune in places - where's the detune coming from?
I definitely had it slightly out of tune at certain moments, can't be sure whether that was it needing a tune (there's a routine you can run to autotune each Telepathy) or user error (you can freely tune the oscs with the 'Hz' page, so it's possible to knock each one out by degrees if you wish, plus you can apply modulation to pitch), as I do like that woozy slightly detuned aphex vibe.
Microtonal! Like!
I’ve definitely heard it being slightly out of tune in other demos too. Kinda important for the oscillators at least as I’d want to be calculated about beating. Gonna have to try one out I suppose, hopefully the autotune will keep it in check.
excellent demo and a great sounding instrument> defenitely has oberheim 4/8 voice multi-timbral vibes!!
One thing: the intervals you play on the keyboard most often do not corresepond with the sounding intervals :-) what's going on here? :-)
thanks!! two things - I have scale quantisation on the keyboard engaged, and you can freely tune the Telepathy VCOs!
Sounds amazing, what FX are you running these through?
Until the the last section it's all either dry or the built in FX of Psychosis, but the last jam has some big reverb from Tiptop Z5000 on the pads!
@@mylarmelodies sounds great, you the man Mylar thank you for your wizardry!
Thy unlocked gizmotron.
I feel so buttery...
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The sounds around the 7:10+ mark would have Vangelis weeping into his DX7!…….GAS coming again (and I’m not talking about the methane variety either) just heard the missus shout “you listening to F*cking Mylar again….no more gear”….”yes dear”…kerching 😅
🤣 made me laugh this, please pass my apologies to your partner
@@mylarmelodies she said apology accepted if you pony up for the summer holiday in Greece I’ve just spent thanks to you matey😂. Keep up the good work :)
What a fuckin sound 🤯
this thing is quite nuts
I like my synths like I like my partners; poly, telepathic, and way out of my budget.
holy shit
Never understood the point of these modules, and don’t know how much is UA-cam compression, but these sound fantastic.
The point of modular is that you can custom create your own dream synth/sampler/granular mangler/MultiFX/MIDI controller/etc. and a mix of everything inbetween!
All with every possible feature you could imagine-and MORE-in exactly the layout you want. But even more importantly; the PATCHING is modular as well! So you can run anything you want through anything else, simultaneously, unlike a standard hardwired synth where you can only run an Osc through a specific chain with no ability to change it... And modular has full-Analog/DSP/hybrid forms of everything, as well as module-formatted versions of all the most famous synth voices, filter topologies, envelope generation, etc. - you could build a custom OB-6 + MS-20 hybrid, with a built in Euclidean step sequencer & 5 different filters.
The possibilities & customization is literally only as limited as your imagination.
@@goonfish yeah I have a fairly large eurorack system but I am against polysynth approaches in modular. It's too many resources to create something really simple compared to what you can do with a polysynth. Modular is ideal for monophonic or potentially paraphonic patches. I have both the Minifreak and Poly Brute, and they do a fairly good job of finding the sweet spot between modular and keyboard synths with their mod matrixes and options.
I know what you mean regarding resources to make a modular poly, it’s a massive effort just to make something coherent/in tune. IMHO I think the Telepathy approach has legs (hence agreeing to do this project) as you can get a few voices of poly, with presets, recall, individual CV control for each module, in a small space and minimal faff.
@@mylarmelodies yeah, I think you demonstrated that well.
1. They have nailed the fundamental tone, this synth has more depth than the various modern moogs, sequential, arturia etc
2. 6 part multitimbral is real innovation and a clever way to break the limits of analog
3. the price is honest (because they are boutique and no big corporative speculation here, no big money to pay the CEO)
4. Your last DEMO is supeeeer dope, and you should release an album with those “Aphexy kind if vibe” / “early techy Detroit”
the only thing i don’t like are the graphics of the faceplate, they don’t make justice to the quality sound of the machine (all dreadboxes look a bit ugly), anyway i will buy one it is the best value for the money in the market right now
please more demos of you making music with this baby
fair nuff - you could at a push DIY new panels! Or one massive panel for all of em
Mylar Melodies? Dreadbox? Yes please.
why woudlnt you just buy a nymphes at this point?
edit: ok, i get it. kind of like a ps-3300 or something. you can adjust each voice independently. pretty cool
I’m glad I don’t have the budget for this, sounds both amazing and a total headache at the same time!
haha, the tricky bit I found was breaking and remapping the setup once set up one way, but you basically have to just start from scratch.
@@mylarmelodies Yep, no presets for all those wires!
@@RikMaxSpeed Actually there are presets! You can save presets and recall em in the units
Knowing for a fact that I could if I knew how to code in both Python and C+ Plus or knew how to use juice, which probably means you have to know how to program for that somewhat. Makes me believe that plug in company is their kind of just money printing factories. And also that charging $200 for a plug-in that doesn't have any sound generation capabilities sounds Ludacris to me.
Sorry what plugin?
@@mylarmelodies sorry I was typing in the comments on another channel while making food , and autoplay brought up this video before I was able to submit my comment to the video I meant to. lol.
@@mylarmelodies Anyways love your channel all the same. The interviews is what attracted me to you in the first place. I dont even own any modular gear. I do have an idea that eurorack will definitely, be the optimal solution for, but I'm ADHD so I have schematics mapped out in my head for years and years worth of projects, so it could take some time before I'm able to see that through. Although all your evangelism on the subject of live looping has been extremely helpful in regards to the kit Im currently piecing together for a live hardware setup. Which will be A Norand mono, erica synths LXR-02, model samples, 1010 bluebox as my mixer, live looper, and master compressor, and a strymon el capistan, and, chroma console. also a midi controller to use with the bluebox.
now looking to sell a bunch of gear for one of these...
I think a Digitakt would be an excellent companion / brain for this setup. With separate sequencers, midi control of buried parameters, macros, sampling, fx and preset storage, it seems like a natural fit to me.
Can I put it in my rack tower? 🤔🤔🤔
Case isn’t rackable (without a bit of welding!) but you could transplant the modules into another case
@@mylarmelodies I see, thanks for answering. Do you think I could integrate this synth with the patchbay on my Minibrute 2?
@@itsJoel59 Ya, they both speak CV
I really hate button combos, sadly, this is another Dreadbox that I'm gonna skip. I love simplicity in my synths. They're moving away from one knob per function isn't a good thing IMO
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Would we call this HARDER sync?
a lot of oef
the ooft was strong with this one 🪺
Each voice will incur some latency due to the thru chain. Ouch.
2ms at most.
@@alexandrosliarokapis227 you made the product?
Could be anything if not.
2ms per is no fun, but also not sure how you could say at most unless you make the product. (I do engineer products like this, and see no reason one could know the most latency another engineer could have landed on there.)
@@lee_at_sea Yes, I work at Dreadbox, hi :) ! Midi is directly passthrough in the main path so main latency is due to the inherent midi baudrate. This is around ~0.25ms latency per unit, so the 2ms was for the full 8 unit chain.
@@alexandrosliarokapis227 ahh. Sub MS per unit is really good! Kudos on getting it that tight, and thanks for the info. :)
Don’t understand the pricing on this bad boy. For the price of 4 Telepathy modules, you get 6 Telepathys, a Psychosis module, and a 70hp powered case. Lol WTF.
Quite the deal innit
Man first divkid now mylar with the all caps clickbait advert garbage. I guess you have to keep churning out content. Thanks for all the good stuff in the past, it was really great. RIP
Sorry you don't like the cover of my book m8! But take it from someone who's been making demo videos and tutorials about synth gear continually for 12 plus years that you either try to distil the essence of what's interesting or different about your video and communicate that in the title and thumbnail, or people don't bother to watch it.
my brother in christ this reaction is so over the top dramatic and you should be embarrassed for have typed it
Embarrassing comment
It's a cool system but when you factor in the price for 6 or even just 4 of these (plus the Psychosis) that goes out the window. Which is weird seeing as how all the other Dreadbox modules have been priced so competitively to date
Did you see the price of the bundle? The price of the Telepathy Bundle is IMHO quite a surprising discount on the price of the individual parts - currently £1219 in the UK which is inc VAT. Whereas a Telepathy alone is about £240. You basically pay for about five telepathies and get a sixth, plus mixer, plus case.
@@mylarmelodies I didn't see that no. That's very nice including the case and mixer.