I dig the funky little slider-based step sequencer. Unique step/note input always gets you to come up with interesting riffs you may not otherwise stumble upon.
Got my eye on this one, as my main gripe with previous Dreadbox options has been lack of patch/seq memory.
As a Monologue owner Iāll let yāall know when I get a Typhon.
Some gear that Iāve wanted could be reasoned away with a spreadsheet and cold, logical point by point, cell by cell analysis. Typhon doesnāt look like one of those things to me. Part of it is, weāre evaluating a tool to help us make art, which is quite different than evaluating what type of machines we need for a distributed caching system or other purely technical thing.
"The (mod) step sequencer continuously runs in the background, but restarts with every new note trigger, or every time you press the play buttonā¦"
restarts with every new note trigger
I wish you could disable that, because whoa Buddy! if you couldā¦
aside from the note sequencer, you could basically be running 3 polyrhythmic parameter/modulation sequencers inside this thing, with different (and multiple!) destinations and step lengths, each.
For example: 32 note steps with probability, with 29 filter freq mod steps, 5 decay mod + FX2 mix steps, 7 wave shape mod steps, 11 OSC 2 CV + FX3 mix steps.
there was a time where I was lusting so hard for the DSI Mopho as a programmable Analog filter box because thereās a sequencer build in but by design just controllable with the 4 encoders and similar to the Typhon.
sound was good tho, a bit dated but good presets to scroll thru
I did a quick test using the note sequencer with a 4-note sequence and three different modulation sequencers running with irregular steps and varied destinations: a 29-step sequence triggering noise FX on step 29 ; a 9-step modulation seq that triggers the EG level and reverb on step 9 ; and the third step of a 3-step modulation seq that moves the cutoff every time itās triggered. It seems that the mod seqs do cycle into nice polyrhythms, though more experimentation is required.
This is encouraging, and nice for long notes.
Thanks for doing that test @DoS!
Maybe if several of us lobby Dreadbox to allow those mod seqs to run from MIDI start/stop instead of retrigger back to start with each triggered note, this thing could be even more mental.
I could see myself doing techno sets with just the Typhon, my MS, and my MicroLimiter.
Sounds like an excellent plan - the Typhon would be more than up for it (once MIDI sync with external devices works properlyā¦) and is delightfully playable.