Dreadbox Typhon

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Dreadbox Typhon. Sounds as good as anything out there IMO. If you want to pay Behringer-like prices for a mono synth but would prefer to get something that isnt a shameless clone, has modern features and effects, while also supporting a small company.... then it's the way to go.

I think the dreadbox typhon looks really cool, but I would like some input into other synths that can do similar things. I think that if I get an additional synth I would need a mixer. I think it would be really nice to have a USB interface in the mixer for recording. I have been looking at the soundcraft signature mtk 12, the Mackie profx12 and the Allen & Heath ZEDi-10.

I can do most of what I can do on my Dreadbox Typhon with virtual analog, but it'll take a few plugins and some tweaking, and still not sound exactly the same. I like the Typhon's unique oscillators, the smoothness of its filter, and the Sinevibes digital effects section (which I could repro by buying Sinevibes plugins, but I couldn't modulate them they way I could on the Typhon). The Minilogue XD I have makes it very easy to dial in dark, washy, ambient sounds with oscillator drift, whereas I'd have to tweak for a bit in a digital synth to get that. It also has a digital oscillator where you can use user oscillators and blend them into the sound, as well as a Sinevibes digital effects section plus user effects, so it's a bit of hybrid.

Stretch up to $350 and you can get the Dreadbox Typhon, which is a fat monophonic synth with excellent effects (kind of like an upgraded Volca Bass). Perhaps there's some overlap with your monologue here, though. Finally, the $100 NTS-1 is worth mentioning, you can sequence it from your Keystep and use it to add crazy good effects to the rest of your gear. There's an expandable ecosystem of free and paid software for it known as logueSDK.

Dreadbox Typhon - middle budget at $300ish, but super powerful. Kind of like the NTS-1, Volca Bass, and Volca Kick all smashed into one box (and about the same price as buying all 3 of those separately). Really excellent unit especially if you are interested in complex modulation sequencing, which it can do both internally or from an external higher level sequencer (such as MPC One, or Digitakt/Digitone).