Well you are cause I never sad digitone has to sample 
(But my comment was not clear on that part: it has a deep complexity on synthesis, so it has a range where sampling is not needed, this does from the marketing and UI , so sampling would be beneficial)
9ths and 11ths baby. Jazz piano is my fav.
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Im putting the heat on the new Patreon site they’ve made to ship to the UK.
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This reminds me of that horribly annoying youtube ad with the guy who says “guess what the chords are already made for you”. Come on man what business do you have making music if you don’t even understand chords. It’s not exactly “music theory” it’s just basic fundamentals. Just play some power chords if that’s all you can do. The world doesn’t need more corny chillwave stuffed full of 7ths.
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the problem with music today is that musicians are just too open minded.
I’ve decided I’m definitely going to grab this if it turns out that it feels good to the touch, and works well as a midi controller to pair with an mpc one, but I’d definitely like some additional features to help make it a great unit for sample fodder, and in chronological order of importance I would like
sampling
you can already play more than one chord at a time, i would like the chord parameters to have the option of being set globally or individually so I could have a strum set on one chord key, and an arp on another chord key etc… stuff like that…
and a suite of interesting FX, not just bitcrushing or distortion (sigh)
and lastly some additional nice thick/warm bass tones (again not distorted)
that would be enough for me to make a plethora of sample fodder with
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sorry, just to clarify- is the price tag in AUD or USD? because if its AUD, then that’s very roughly something like €300 which is much much better than the numerical value in euros of the price right now…
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It’s in USD:
“How much is Telepathic Instruments’ Orchid?
The first 1,000 Orchids will be priced at $549 USD.”
Telepathic Instruments’ Orchid: All the details about Tame Impala’s new synth revealed.
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For some people the upcoming Minichord might be a cheaper alternative:
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Good point.
You need to look closely at your way of working, and your expectations. Those two have an overlap but have different roles.
Also be aware the Minichord is at the moment only an open source project you can build, we’ll see how that develops though.
Product sometimes run in trends, and chording, for whatever reasons, is the hot thing right now.
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Because it’s easier to play around with something like this than learning how to fluently play all those chords on an actual keyboard or guitar?
Chording apps for iOS/Android have been around for years now, it’s probably become popular enough to create some hardware.
Recent chording hardware activity :
Orchid, the OM-108, Minichord, NapkeyChord, HiChord, Korg Keystage, new firmware for the Native Instruments Kontrol S Series, Novation Launchkey Mk4, Arturia KeyLab mk3, Nopia under development, the now bankrupt Aodyo Loom, Artiphon Chorda, the Extend-o-matic recently withdrawn from KS but likely to return.
ADDED : And i forgot, the new Korg NanoKEY Fold has chord mapping. See it really is a trend.
There is a delay in hardware development of something around 18 months, so these were started without knowledge of the others. That’s what i mean.
Alternatives.
Which also includes hardware around for a while. No i’m not going on.
Edit :
Changed Novation Launchkey Mk3 to Mk4.
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Kordbot by Isla
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Never got the updates to sort it out did it?
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Just shy quarter of OP-XY’s price. Wow, plastic.
To me this is like the Drumologue of chord generators… cut the price by 30-40% and I think you’ve got a fun little accessible instrument there.
But the current asking price makes me feel like they think I’m a fool… an impression that’s not helped by the cringe promo videos. VHS aesthetics always feel so inauthentic and pandering to me, but these felt particularly inauthentic and try-hard even for latter day hipster shit.
But then, I try not to judge anything by its ad campaign, and Kevin is an amazing musician. It costs a lot of money to put a new instrument on the market and I get that it has to make financial sense for the makers for it to even see the light of day.
Maybe if it’s a hit the economies of scale will bring the price down and everyone will be happy.
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Fun to read the angel in one ear devil in the other dialogue.
The product may also become more valuable, it’s just extending the firmware, and the hardware interface is so nice and open. Some companies do such a nice job making a good product great. Of course you only buy in later, after those new features are real.
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I’ll invoke the wisdom I heard on this forum:
Buy the gear for what it can do now, not for what you think it might do later.
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I tend to think of it as two little Bugs Bunnys, both dressed in devil costumes.
Hes too busy going to restaurants
orchid looks really cool imo
it touches on a nice problem not many other ‘scale’ systems do, which is changing key
seems really smartly designed, simple
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