Dreadbox Typhon

This is great! Though I do wish they’d fixed my biggest complaint - I wish the sequencer on / off state would persist like it does on the Artemis. I never use it and often forget to disable it after booting.

Edit: Actually I’m wrong, it does fix that! Incredible update. I was already a huge fan an this addresses every little quality of life issue I had.

Yes. Sorry I quitted the team !
I feel a bit guilty. :meh:
If they have done it last year I would have probably kept it.
GAS made me buy other things, bought Norand Mono MKI and MKII I could compare, didn’t gel with them finally. Tempted by a compact poly analo I also tried a Freds Lab Tooro…

Finally bought a Pro 800 again and an Edge for the same price I sold the Typhon…

I didn’t do any real A/B testing to see if the volume was really better or not but it does feel like it has a bit more guts on some waveshape options that were previously underwhelming. Mine has always been 4.1 since I got it and I really can’t say I noticed the difference in the menu system particularly but I love the patch persistence across boots and the sine/square blends do sound even nicer to modulate now I think, with fewer dead zones in the wave shaper knob.

I can’t figure out how to enable BPM sync on the delays to set dotted 8ths and triplets, what am I missing?

In the settings menu, sync options, fx3 > bpm. Then the time settings for the delays will include the intermediate options ( . , T )

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Late to the party but looking to get a Tuphon. Secondhand prices are quite good.
So, with all the latest updates, has the noise issue being solved?
Is it that bad in some units that you can hear it while manglingsounds?
Thanks!

For me, I only get ground loop noise when powering the Typhon by a USB cable from a computer to which my soundcard that is bringing the Typhon audio into a DAW etc is also connected.

If I power the synth and run USB audio direct into the computer on the same cable then there is no noise; if I power the Typhon from a separate USB charger / PCU then there is no noise, and it’s always been the case, regardless of firmware updates.

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Nice, thanks for clarifying it!
Thats good news on my side is I intend to use it only with my dawless setup.
Go go gaz :slight_smile:

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take a look and judge for yourself (as my post back then clearly created some defensive reactions for some): Dreadbox Typhon - #2396 by baton
nothing has changed in noise department in the last FW

It’s a real shame you’re still having these noise problems - I just tried reproducing the noise issue both with a direct USB audio connection into a computer, and then with audio out through a Soundcraft Folio analogue mixer into the same computer with the Typhon powered by a separate USB charger / PSU and there was no hiss audible for me.

USB audio test:

Not trying to prove you wrong by the way, just noting it’s never been an issue for me (and hopefully will remain like that).

This dude found a fix and it looks like you have to perform surgery on your Typhon:

https://forum.reasontalk.com/viewtopic.php?p=603457#p603457

For me the most dependable way I’ve found to avoid the ground loop hum issue is to power it using a USB battery charger. If I try to connect it to the same source as my OP-XY it’s ground hum city.

I’ve been curious to try using my USB galvanic isolator that I have on my stereo to see if that fixes the issue. Will try it and report back.

Maybe I should have worded it differently. There is no noise issue.

The problem with powering it from a USB battery charger or similar is that you can’t use USB-MIDI then.

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Actually, maybe I should have said it differently. I mainly meant the noise floor of the Typhon. I watched Stimming’s review of it and he mentioned it as a big disadvantage. It’s right at the end of the video, at minute 15:30, in case anyone is wondering. The noise is very noticeable.

Do you have a Typhon? Mine does not do that at all.

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I find that the noise is extremely related to the usb port used. On a usb hub connected to a CME midi usb host it is not present, on my thinkpad usb port it’s a bit intolerable.

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That’s reassuring know, thank you!
No I don’t, but wondered as I wanted to get one and that noise “worried” me a bit.

I’ve resurrected mine yesterday to update it to the latest FW, connected to the M4 MBA via an USB-C Anker 8383 hub, all perfect, both audio and midi via USB. Years ago I had that ground noise, you know, noticeable especially when you moved the mouse connected to the same PC, but now I do not recall how it was connected back then.
Probably it was before the USB audio FW update, perhaps I was using the analog output for audio and powering directly from the usb port of my old 2011 iMac… I don’t remember, but sure I had the issue and right now not anymore.

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Man, now im thinking about getting a typhon again. I sold it partly for digitone 2 money and partly because I didnt like messing with that tiny screen and partly because of how jumpy the encoder was in my secondhand box. But ive got a couple tracks I made with it that I just can’t duplicate on other hardware, and I guess absence has made my heart grow fonder.

I never had the noise problem at all btw. I pretty much only powered it by an external battery or a usb cable plugged into an old iPhone wall wart. I power my beloved nymphes the same way and its never had noise problems either. I feel like I read somewhere that iPhone chargers have always been overengineered so theyre great for this, and as dreadbox themselves point out, people tend to have them sitting around. Just my two anecdotal cents tho

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I bought mine brand new like…5 years ago? I can’t remember - but I only paid like $299 USD, which is what it used to sell for before the world went insane. Then I bought a second one used to give to a friend… for $50.

I shudder to think what they sell for new right now. Even used seems crazy high for what you get IMHO. But I’m glad I held onto mine. Updated without an issue and it sounds as nuts as it always has.

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