I don’t make ambient myself, but I’m sure the Typhon can deliver what you are looking for, sound-wise.
Connectivity-wise, is there a reason you want to run it through your interface (i.e. outboard processing)? The Typhon delivers audio over USB, so you could do power+audio+MIDI over USB and skip the interface. That’s what I do 75% of the time. The remaining 25% I run it through my interface, MIDI over the DIN input, powered by a separate USB power supply (not the computer). Never had any trouble in either scenario.
AFAIK it’s when you mix and match (as you are proposing) that the noise issues arise (due to ground loops)
Thanks for the info and feedback.
Great to know that you’ve not had any issues running everything connectivity wise going through the USB. From what I’d researched I was under the impression that the more you ran through USB the more chance of issues such as ground loop noise etc but it sounds like the opposite true.
Something in between would help! Like a Volca or Circuit etc, anything that can use both midi and analogue clock. Quite a few synths have this too, eg Minilogue XD etc.
Alternatively, just set their tempos identically and press play so they play in time. This actually works far better than most people realize!
It gives you more freedom, you can play them slightly out of time, or can be in time but the 1 comes in different places, or can set tempo different by 1 bpm and let them drift slowly out etc.
It takes a bit of practice but is worth it. If I’m using 3 or less devices I’ll often connect the clocks but turn the clock off, then quickly turn it on if I want all the devices to change tempo together (accelerando etc).
Thanks for those replies. I have an roland s1 so maybe that could be the piece in between. I quite like the immediacy of a ko33 and s1 together and wish this was something more common place with.synths. The typhon spund in the s1 form factor would be perfect.
Got my new Typhon this week. What a great device I recognised that left and right on the effects are swapped. For example when I use the shifter in FX2 and set the semitones for left or right it is always on the wrong side. Same with the delay for the left and right channel. This appears on the headphone out and on the 6.3 outs. Easy fix is to swap the cables from left to right but I found this a little bit strange.
It’s made it to my list of gear I’ll never sell. Is it the most nuanced and controllable analogue mono? No totally not, does it (mostly) sound fantastic? Yeah.
They made some great calls with the knobs on the front, all the performance potential is right there, with all the sound design stuff you don’t need to tweak mid track, is all tucked behind menus.
Just want that final update to add dotted and triple delays times and I’ll be forever happy with it
I recognised that left and right on the effects are swapped. For example when I use the shifter in FX2 and set the semitones for left or right it is always on the wrong side. Same with the delay for the left and right channel. This appears on the headphone out and on the 6.3 outs. Easy fix is to swap the cables from left to right but I found this a little bit strange. 