Telepathic Instruments & Tame Impala have announced a new batch of their Orchid advanced chord generating synthesizer will be available May 29th, 2025.
‘Drop 2’ will have 3,000 instruments. This follows the original batch of 1,00o, released in Jan of this year.
Features:
- Intuitive Chord Generation
- Triads (Major, Minor, Dim and Sus)
- Extensions (6, m7, M7, 9)
- Polyphonic 3-Synth Engine
- Polyphonic Virtual Analogue Subtractive Synth
- FM Synth
- Vintage Reed Piano
- 4 Oscillators
- 4 LFOs
- 4 Envelope Generators
- Adjustable Type Filter
- Performance Modes
- Arpeggiator
- Strum
- Slop
- Pattern
- Harp
- Onboard Stereo Effects
- Reverb
- Chorus
- Delay
- Flanger
- Phasor
- Overdrive
- Loop Mode
- Voicing Wheel
- Bass Voicing
- Animated Chord Display
- MIDI Out
- Onboard Speakers
- USBC Rechargeable Battery
- 3.5mm Stereo Output
See the Telepathic Instruments site for details.
No poly aftertouch, not good enough in 2025.
And what exactly would one do with poly aftertouch on a chord generator with a one-octave keyboard?
Hi Dacci Pucci
Use it to control any one of the 9 modulation sources?
Are you serious?
It doesn’t even have mono aftertouch. Yawn.
What a lovely piece of gear
eh it looks ok. I tend to see chord machines as the most overpriced synthesizer genre
What other chord synths are you thinking of? Seems like a pretty small niche!
There’s a few. One that was being pushed on insta that looked like an old spectrum computer. The El Strum, the omnichord, now this
Yeah all massively overpriced
*Le Strum and Le grand strum
Sorry. These are actually really cool and not massively overpriced
very strong design and marketing, they have their target audience in laser focus. it’s a hype machine that includes a chord synth. 😉