Dreadbox Nymphes Synthesizer

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Dreadbox Nymphes Synthesizer
Product no: 9000-0082-3779 Bax Music Warranty: This product comes with a 3-year warranty.

General

Lined with nothing more than a few slider banks, a couple of rotary knobs and few buttons, you might think that Dreadbox Nymphes is a fairly limited synthesizer, but this fully analogue monster (aside from a digital reverb) can do way more than the clean layout will have you believe. This six-voice synth is home to a system loaded with seven menus and a Shift button, granting access to a machine that's at least twice as big as it looks.

The Dreadbox Nymphes

You get a VCO per voice, a sub-oscillator and a noise generator as well as a pretty extensive LFO per voice with a frequency range that makes FM-effects possible. Two envelopes are also supplied: a 24dB LPF and a 6dB HPF, and there are the global effects which can be applied to every voice and a global LFO with the same characteristics as the voice-LFO. Seven chords can be set at will, and on top of that, modulation options are on offer where mod-wheel, velocity and after-touch can edit the various parameters. Pile on that digital reverb and the tricksy Nymphes really comes to potent, even delirious life.

Tips or comments about this product

Please note:

  • A USB power supply does not come included. Any standard USB power supply can be used, including a phone charger as long as the plug is compatible.
  • A MIDI device or MIDI keyboard with a USB-Host or DIN5 MIDI-output is required to control this synthesizer.
  • This synthesizer requires 380mA of power, which not every computer can provide. If needed, a USB power supply with a 1,000mA capacity or more can be used.

Specifications

Product features

19-inch rack size not applicable
Number of keys none
Arpeggiator/sequencer none
Control none
Sustainable product not specified
Synthesizer inputs none
Sound source analogue
MIDI & other MIDI over USB, MIDI in (mini jack)
Synthesizer options simple
Synthesizer outputs line out jack, headphone
Synthesizer kind standard
Type of keys not applicable
Vintage remake no
Synthesizer type desktop module
Difficulty level easy

Weight and dimensions including packaging

Weight (incl. packaging) 1,2 kg
Dimensions (incl. packaging) 30,0 x 17,5 x 9,0 cm

Product specifications

  • Dreadbox Nymphes
  • analogue synthesizer
  • digital reverb
  • polyphony: 6
  • USB powered
  • 50 hours of playing time when powered by a 20,000mA power-bank (not included)
  • includes:
    • USB cable (A to B)
    • DIN to 3.5mm mini-jack adapter
    • quick start guide
    • menu map
  • dimensions: 240 x 125 x 38mm
  • weight: 850g

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Dreadbox Nymphes Synthesizer
Wrote the following about Dreadbox Nymphes Synthesizer
Zo'n kleine synth met zo'n groot geluid! Sommige mensen zullen niet gecharmeerd zijn van de manier waarop de menus em de sliders werken, maar dit ziet er ingewikkelder uit dan dat het is. Daarentegen kan je nergens een 6 voice, analoge polysynth krijgen voor dit geld. De mono output is makkelijk te omzeilen door middel van een externe stereo chorus/flanger/reverb waarmee deze synth nog beter uit de verf komt.

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