Telepathic Instruments Orchid
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This is Orchid, an advanced chord generating hardware synthesizer developed for songwriters, producers and musicians to expand the possibilities of songwriting and musical exploration.
Using the synth’s unique chord logic system, users can craft seemingly endless variations of chords with ease and precision, together with its unprecedented chord voicing system that pitches and positions chords at the turn of a single dial. This process effectively expands the potential of the chords to an entire piano’s key set, not just the 12 velocity sensitive keys found on the unit.
Users can then use “Performance” modes (Strum, Slop, Arpeggiator, Pattern and Harp) to shape and alter the chords to maximise creative expression. All this is brought into sonic existence by a rich polyphonic synth engine (virtual analogue, FM and reed piano emulation) with lush onboard ambient and modulation FX, plus a separate bass synth engine solely for bottom-end accompaniment.
When it’s time to go mobile the Orchid boasts stereo built-in speaker and long-life rechargeable battery charged via USB-C. Speaking of USB-C, the Orchid is capable of sending chords in MIDI form straight to the DAW exactly as they are crafted in the unit, or traditional 5-pin MIDI if you just want to talk straight to your beloved old poly.
Orchid. For Chords.
This is Orchid by Telepathic Instruments.
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I did not mention it's battery charged via USB-C, it's capable of sending MIDI via USB-C/5 Pin Midi, and the synth engines are virtual analogue, FM and reed piano emulation
just learn chord. spend 1 month learning piano and you will never need to buy these gimmicks.
its a rebranded roland airaJ6 – with kidsfriendly interface
What an innovation, it works like an air farfisa
THIS THING IS FREAKIN AMAZING AND I CANT WAIT TO OWN IT!!!!
HOT
It's seems easy to access. Who knows what creative paths people will take to work around it's limitations ????
It’s a great tool for people that are looking to play chords easily outside the box. Ideas generator is a great name. Could see this as a simple way in singer song writing sessions to bust out unique progressions on the go. I think for a lot of the fast pace culture that can happen in this industry this is a quick little fix to lugging around a full on keyboard.
It’s a great tool for people that are looking to play chords easily outside the box. Ideas generator is a great name. Could see this as a simple way in singer song writing sessions to bust out unique progressions on the go. I think for a lot of the fast pace culture that can happen in this industry this is a quick little fix to lugging around a full on keyboard.
This is a $250 instrument at best. Even with small scale manufacturing with means less volume savings.
I actually was gifted an old bontempi keyboard by a friend years ago that does exactly the same. It's from the 90's sounds a bit more quirky, but has the same chord playing features.
That left side should be drum pads. Missed opportunity as usual
Orchid is obviously the Nopia controller with sounds. It's cool it's just got a few sounds, if curated by the Tame Impala guy
Bass sound is nice. Price squabblers are clueless on probably most things….enjoy the videos though.
Kinda retarted. A laptop and a small midi controller can do the same thing
The only thing missing in my STUDIO with my CHOMPI, singing TEENAGE ENGINEERING wood figurines and my OHMA microphone.
Did I mention my OMNICHORD and that I release everything straight to TikTok?
Style over content. Learn to play piano. The design is cool and will lure people in but they’ll never be pleased BECAUSE THEY CANT PLAY. So it’ll get used for a week only to gather dust from the 8th day until the owner dies.
Can I also use it as a midi controller?
Love the visual design aesthetic; more stuff needs to look like this.
I still think it's just easier to play the chords on a regular keyboard but I can see how this could be helpful for people without an education that included music theory so that's pretty cool. Not really for me but it will help others get into making music which is good.
550 for this thing is robbery
Awesome ! Great price point for specialized gear,,, will be buying one if I can… ✌????
I like how a toy can sprout a comment section full opinions no one asked for
$549 for how many keys? A Casio with chord mode in my opinion should be $347. No way I’ll invest $549 for this.
1981 – Omnichord . . . 2024 – Orchid
Spending 549$ on this gimmick just to don’t learn piano or basic harmony is sick
Looks pretty coooool, but mostly just reminds me how handy it will be to go and learn all of my guitar chords and inversions … then I'll have my own "idea" machine at my fingertips.
This said, it would be a fun way to mindlessly experiment with chords.
i can offert 10 euros for this shit
The concept is interesting: still with this much money I could hire someone to teach me ho to program a midi keyboard to do this in max for live…
If it was under 300 I’d be in. Too steep. I have a launchkey that already cheats chords so at this point I just have to buckle down and learn chords instead of adding something else to my repertoire
Why only 1000 to start?
I think that, unless this can be used as a MIDI controller for soft synths, its market will quickly dwindle and it'll vanish as quickly as it appeared. If it has that capability, I can see this being a widely used and useful tool for songwriters whose keyboard skills are limited. I can't see that being a difficult utility to implement, but the material so far used introducing the product doesn't leave me hopeful. I hope I'm wrong. This has a lot of potential if it can be used as a controller.
$300 max
Even though this thing costs $550 it will probably still fly off the shelves – there's a veritable army of hobbyist musicians who will do anything to avoid learning the required music theory behind something like chord extensions. This is partly why the Omnichord had a huge resurgence. No hate if this applies to you, but you can buy an actual hardware synthesizer for this price and learn the theory for free if you're willing to put the effort in. Hell, something like a Steichfett costs half the price brand new and they sound relatively similar to my ears.
Indie producers will lap this up purely because it's halfway between toy and instrument and designed to look like it came out in 1976 (despite the fact that it's consumerbase will have likely been born in the 90's or 00's).
This is very misunderstood product. It's not supposed to teach you chords. You play, you mess around, and you come up with new idea. Whether that's worth 500 is up to you
I think the background image could be a little more annoying.
These specializes flag ship synths from small companies are always gonna come at a premium. Even with the price point the company needs the unit to be popular to get back the investment in development cost.
I'm not buying an Orchid for that much money lmao what
It looks great as an interface. What will it add to the casio legacy though?
MEH
Lazy invention for lazy people. Yeah… no thanks.
Can't wait for audiopilz to cover this!