We’ve kept a close eye on the progress of Telepathic Instruments’ debut synth Orchid since it was first announced earlier this year. The company, which is founded by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, dropped a series of cryptic teasers over the past few months before giving us our first proper look at the esoteric instrument last week. Now Orchid has been fully revealed, and it’s no less interesting than the teasers led us to believe.
Pitched as being ‘made for chords’ Orchid is a 16-voice digital polysynth that features three distinct synth engines designed by Stefan Stenzel, best known for his work with Waldorf. These offer a virtual analogue subtractive synth, an FM synth engine, and a vintage reed piano emulation. The FM and VA engines each have four oscillators, four LFOs, four envelope generators and a filter.
