You might also consider getting the Solar 50 by Elta Music. The sounds you get will be a reflection of your state of mind. It’s one of those “you get out what you put in” synths. Don’t let its difficulty in use dissuade you. On the other hand, if sheer droning and ambience is what you’re after, the Lyra is absolutely beautiful.
While the Erebus has one more oscillator and might be able to provide a bit more low end beef right out of the box without any special tricks or routing and the ability to play three note chords when tuned at intervals, the Nyx has these wild dual filters that can produce outrageous harmonics when routed properly.įor instance, in parallel mode (labeled “1/2”) and bandpass mode, you can have two separate resonant filter peaks (one for each oscillator) and when you offset them and tune the resonance and cutoff properly, you can play simple four note chords, or if you eventually get into CV routing, you can tune the cutoff and play more specific chords.Īnother cool trick, when the filter is in highpass mode and you crank the resonance way up then tune the cutoff properly, you’re basically creating a sine wave sub oscillator that could rumble your house down.
#Erebus v3 or dreadbox nyx 2 plus
Anyway, I’d welcome any thoughts on these pairings - the Typhon plus one other - for the purposes of droning ambience and pure sound design enjoyment.Īs Fin25 and Struggle have mentioned, Dreadbox Nyx might be a better option than the Erebus for drones and ambience while still maintaining the ability to easily sound “musical” (considering the Lyra can fall away from traditional musicality quite quickly). I’m leaning more towards pure synthesis for the sheer enjoyment of it and away from real music “production” which I get less and less out of these days. It’s clearly pretty weird and hard to control and also making some pretty aggressive sounds but I thought that the Typhon filter and FX might tame it and they could play nicely together. I know it’s a slightly contentious product. I also find myself drawn back towards the Lyra-8. I’m tempted to add a second Dreadbox synth in the form of an Erebus so I have the pathchbay and 3 oscillators to play with, but I wonder if they perhaps have too much crossover. This led me back to thinking about semi-modular synths as they have flexibility and room to grow into but without the insane cost or option paralysis from eurorack. I’ve gone back and forth about eurorack and I’m just not sure I want to fall down that particular hole. I wanted to try adding something else with more hands-on controls.
Perhaps not the intended purpose for a gnarly mono-synth but it works surprisingly well! I really love the sound and I can get lost in those digital FX and distortion options.
Lately I’ve spent less and less time actually making music with DAWs and spent more time just enjoying ambient/drone sound design with my Typhon synth.
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