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Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker Launches Orchid, a New Musical ‘Ideas Machine’
The Tame Impala mastermind has launched a digital polysynthesizer designed for musicians and producers to explore new ideas.
A ’70s-styled product video shows Orchid in action and illustrates how an operator can choose a root note from its single-octave keyboard, and utilise a its eight “chord-type selecting and chord modifying keys”. The Strum, Slop, Arpeggiator, Pattern and Harp performance modes also add versatilty to the way the aforementioned chords are ‘played’ by the user as well. “While other chord generators deliver a static and rigid outputting platform, Orchid paints a new landscape,” the press release adds.
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