dreadbox Artemis Demo (No Talking) with Presets for Ambient, Electronica and Techno

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"dreadbox Artemis – My 2 Cents
Artemis is a polyphonic analog synthesizer with six voices and a comprehensive effects section developed by Sinevibes. Housed in a solid desktop chassis, all potentiometers, faders, and buttons feel great, with just the right amount of resistance. On the rear, you'll find a stereo output, a separate headphone output, plus USB and MIDI connections. It doesn't offer a foot pedal input, but it supports MPE (I still need to try that with my Osmose).

Now to the most important part — the sound. It features that great vintage tone I love so much on other dreadbox devices, largely thanks to its creamy-sounding filters. Both filters offer resonance, and the low-pass filter can be switched between 12dB and 24dB slopes.

But it doesn't stop there: thanks to TZFM and filter FM (yes, noise can be a source here too), it can sound very modern as well, making it great for all sorts of electronic music. Although it offers quite a lot of modulation options, I still found myself wishing for features like key tracking for LFO rate, negative envelope amounts, noise as a modulation source in the menu, or meta-modulations. After reaching out to dreadbox about these features, they told me they are already working on them for a future update and/or will look into them. Based on my past experiences with dreadbox, I’m confident we can expect a nice firmware update for Artemis in the future.

The effects section by Sinevibes is also great — it’s just a shame that there are no external inputs like on the Typhon, as those would have made it a fantastic standalone effects unit as well. You get four effect slots (Lo-Fi/overdrive/shaper, modulation, delay, and reverb), each with several options to further tweak the sound. Here, I would love to see a bit more flexible routing, allowing changes to the effect order. But even without that, the effects section is a great addition that melts perfectly into the internal analog sound engine. I'd only recommend not adding too much, as the effects can quickly become dominant.

TL;DR: dreadbox Artemis is a sweet-spot synth that can also show its teeth when desired. Its intuitive interface and great-sounding effects unit make it an excellent companion for live performances. Definitely a highlight!"

0:00 Quick Rundown
1:41 Apocalypse Pad
2:19 Works I
3:04 Goblin Sweep
3:46 Solitude Pad
4:52 Works II
5:53 Classic House Pad
6:52 Filigrane Pad
7:44 Works III
8:20 Kitty Pad
9:06 Digi Pad
9:50 Heavenly
11:03 LEAD Massive
11:40 Accelerator Lead I
12:31 Commerce Lead
13:12 Kitty Lead
13:52 FM Lead
14:13 Accelerate Lead II
14:43 Saw Under Lead
15:28 BASS Boarder Bass
15:47 Electronica Bass
16:28 Unisono Bass
16:44 Wall Bass
17:28 Tanz Bass
18:23 Father Bass
19:03 PWM Bass
19:45 Dub Chord 1
20:41 Dub Chord 2
21:09 FX Kick Bass
21:21 Soylent Blue
21:28 Glitch Bells