The Stylophone GEN R-8

Published on Nov 24, 2019 MrFirechild

"This track is using sounds exclusively from the analog Stylophone GEN R-8 synthesizer, except the kick (ARP 2600) and Vocals (Behringer VC340). Additional white noise is also added via AUX input for some sounds.
Visuals created using www.plane9.com
Composed and produced by www.firechild.se"

Dubreq Stylophone Gen X-1 - Unboxing, Review and Tutorial

Published on Nov 2, 2019 ChrisLody

"I've been looking forward to this, my Stylophone Gen X-1 unboxing, review and tutorial. To say more would make the video pointless so just watch that :D

By the way, when I say I had an original stylophone 'back in the day' that doesn't mean the 1960's as that would be impossible! I've had one since the 1980's and even up until about a year ago so it's a shame I don't have one at the moment or I'd have compared them along side each other.

The Gen X-1 was kindly provided free of charge to make this video."

OUT NOW | Stylophone Gen R-8 | Touch analog synthesizer

Published on Oct 29, 2019 Stylophone

"OUT NOW: The new LIMITED EDITION Stylophone Gen R-8 analog synthesizer packs a mean punch – with fat room-shaking bass and the dirtiest, grittiest sounds.

• Full analog signal path
• Steel enclosure
• Dual VCOs with Saw, Square and PWM (oscillator 1)
• Sub oscillators and Subsub oscillators for room-shaking bass
• Unique British design 12dB VCF with Low pass, High pass, Band pass and wide Notch
• Fast and punchy envelope
• Supersensitive 3-octave TOUCH keyboard
• Glide and Modulation keys for expressive performance control
• 8 waveform LFO with S&H and One-shot feature
• 19 CV/Gate patch points for advanced modular patching
• Grungy analog style Delay with modulation CV
• Drive knob for extra boost and fatness
• 16-step sequencer with 8 banks and on-the-fly switching
• MIDI in/out"

And the press release including price:

"British company DUBREQ announces the launch of its much-anticipated STYLOPHONE GEN R-8 touch analog synthesizer.

Designed and manufactured in Britain.

Since its invention in the late 1960s, the Stylophone’s raw electronic tones have been loved across the world.

Now DUBREQ are about to release the biggest and most powerful Stylophone instrument yet: the STYLOPHONE GEN R-8.

This touch Analog Synthesizer is packed with features you’d expect in larger, more expensive instruments, including a full analog signal path, Dual VCOs with Saw, Square and PWM, 8 waveform LFO plus sub-oscillators for room shaking bass.

It also comes with a 16-step sequencer, a sensitive 3-octave TOUCH keyboard. a 12dB VCF with Low pass, High pass, Band pass and wide Notch, plus Glide and Modulation for more expressive performance control. All within a hefty steel enclosure.

The Gen R-8 is the ultimate Stylophone instrument, aimed at serious musicians and synth fans alike. You can use it with any kind of hardware set up to get incredibly raw and gritty sounds and comes with 19 CV/Gate patch points for advanced modular patching

The first signs are that this new Stylophone instrument could become a future cult classic and DUBREQ are limiting the first production run to only 500 of these synths.

Price for the initial 500 units:
$349 / €329 / £299"

Stylophone GEN X-1 B Movie Horror Theme on 4 Track Tape

Published on Oct 27, 2019 ChrisLody

"Ahead of my upcoming review of the Dubreq Stylophone GEN X-1 here's a little Halloween treat, a B movie style synth horror movie theme recorded on 4 track tape. Hopefully it's your favourite nonexistent B movie horror theme.

The Stylophone GEN X-1 was supplied free of charge by Dubreq (Sponsored Content)"

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Shredding on Stylophone GEN R-8

Published on Oct 20, 2019 Stylophone

"You can play fast guitar-style licks and slides with bends and divebombs on the touch keyboard. Here's a video we made earlier in the workshop."

Dubreq - Stylophone Gen R8 - SynthFest UK 2019

Published on Oct 7, 2019 Sound On Sound magazine

See the SynthFest UK label below for more.

New SYNTHFEST 2019 Sonicstate Videos

Published on Oct 7, 2019 sonicstate

Update: EvenHarmonic Stomp Synth added to the playlist.

Playlist:

1. SYNTHFEST 2019 - Expert Sleepers Ultimate Interface ES-9

Expert Sleepers were on hand to show their entirely new ES-9 which takes the concept of modular and DAW integration with DC coupled connections, to its logical conclusion - featuring 16 IO interface, plus 2x balanced Audio outs as well as 8x8 minijacks, and optical IO, as well as compatibility with the ES expansion modules (for up to 48 additional outputs). You can now use this at the heart of your live or recording system in one go. Available soon priced at £499 UK

2. SYNTHFEST 2019 - IO Instruments Filter - With dual resonance types

New dual filter type from IO Instruments adding to their expanding range of affordable modules, this one featuring a ladder filter (24/12/6dB slopes) - with bass compensation and an MS type filter. With Linear FM, Keytrack and other controllable aspects. Sounded good, and is affordable, expected price is around €130 Euros

3. SYNTHFEST 2019 - More On The Modal Argon8

Modal Electronics were showing two of their Argon 8 Wavetable synths - things are moving on, there are now 4 in the world - so still at production prototypes stage.

News from the Modal Electronics camp, the Argon8 firmware is still being worked on, with some advances in DSP efficiency meaning more is happening in the on board FX department.

Still aiming for November production, but probably later in the month as opposed to early. But still largely on track.
Jackson kindly gave us a glimpse of some of the new features and DSP work thats been going on.
Argon 8 is expected by the end of November at a retail price around £579.

4. SYNTHFEST 2019 - Isotonik Studios Control For Akai Fire - Soon Come

Isotonik Studios spend a lot of their time figuring out what MIDI controllers work well with Ableton Live and construct custom scripts that will allow them to be used in ways that allow for excellent studio and live workflows. In this video we look at the way that new hardware can be hooked up. Using ClipEx Pro and the bindings feature, its possible to create your own complex, custom setups.
Also on show was the soon to be released set of functions including a Euclidian sequencer and control for the Akai Fire. Which is an FL Studio controller that's has been hijacked to work with live with some more clever scripting and a Max4 Live sequencer device.
Available soon via isotonikstudios.com

5. SYNTHFEST 2019 - VCVRack Updates And More To Come

VCV Rack as we know hit its V1.0 earlier this year and as such started to become more highly featured. We caught up with Dale from module developer Valley and talked about the environment, and future plans.
https://github.com/ValleyAudio

6. SYNTHFEST 2019 - Tranzient - VR Music Creation APP from AliveInTech

We saw some of the VR integration for Ableton Live from AliveInTech's Jim Simons a couple of years back. Since then VR headsets and hardware has reduced in price, making it more available, and so a new application has been developed which has a complete single software solution - with the VR, audio engine all in the same application.
Its called Tranzient and Jim gave us a look at the application in action.

7. SYNTHFEST 2019 - Stylophone Gen R8

The Stylophone Gen R8 is continuing its path to release - in fact its just about to ship.
Its an analogue synth voice with Stylophone heritage - ie it has the touch keypad.
All with in-house Stylophone designed Oscillators, Filter and JFET drive circuit.

8. SYNTHFEST 2019 - EvenHarmonic Stomp Synth

Evenharmonics were showing a proof of concept modular analog synth built into discrete, patchable pedals controlled by guitar.

See the SYNTHFEST UK label below for more.

Dubreq Stylophones Set w/Case

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Included:
-Stylophone.
-Mini Stylophone.
-Stylophone Beatbox.
-(3) cables to interconnect the units.
-Game Keeper hard case.

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Dubreq Stylophone® + BEATBOX

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Stylophone Gen R-8 Sneak Preview At Superbooth 2019

Published on May 24, 2019 Synthtopia

"Here's a sneak preview of the Stylophone Gen R-8 synthesizer from Superbooth 2019.

The Gen R-8 is sort of an uber-Stylophone - combining the original's stylus interface with a much more powerful semi-modular synth engine."

Dubreq Stylophone GEN-R8 Coming to SUPERBOOTH

Dubreq will be at booth H374 at this year's SUPERBOOTH 19 showing their new GEN-R8.

You can find a demo of the GEN-R8 here.

NAMM 2019: Stylophone Gen R-8

Published on Feb 3, 2019 CatSynth TV

"We spend a couple of minutes with the Stylohphone Gen R-8 from Dubreq at NAMM 2018.

"DUBREQ launch[es] the Stylophone Gen R-8, a brand NEW Touch Analog Synthesizer, designed and manufactured in Britain. Packed with features of much larger and more expensive instruments.
The Stylophone Gen R-8 is sure to be a highlight of NAMM 2019.

Full analog signal path
Steel enclosure
Dual VCOs with Saw, Square and PWM (oscillator 1)
Sub oscillators and Subsub oscillators for room shaking bass
Unique British design 12dB VCF with Low pass, High pass, Band pass and wide Notch
Fast and punchy envelope
Supersensitive 3-octave TOUCH keyboard
Glide and Modulation keys for expressive performance control
8 waveform LFO with S&H and One-shot feature
19 CV/Gate patch points for advanced modular patching
Grungy analog style Delay with modulation CV
Drive knob for extra boost and fatness
16-step sequencer with 8 banks and on-the-fly switching
MIDI in/out"

The Stylophone was a lot of fun, but we only had a few minutes to scratch the surface in a crowded and noisy corridor at NAMM. We hope to have a chance to explore it in more detail in the future.

For more information, please visit https://dubreq.com/genr8/

For more NAMM 2019 coverage, please subscribe to this channel and visit www.catsynth.com"

Dubreq Stylophone GEN R8 Sound Demo (no talking)

Published on Feb 1, 2019 Bonedo Synthesizers

Stylophone Gen R-8 Synthesizer At NAMM 2019

Published on Jan 28, 2019 Synthtopia

"At the 2019 NAMM Show, Dubreq introduced a new stylus synthesizer, the Stylophone Gen R-8."

NAMM 2019 part 3 - IK Multimedia, East West, Dubreq Stylophone, Novation

Published on Jan 25, 2019 SynthMania

- IK Multimedia: new SampleTank 4
- East West: new sample libraries
- Dubreq: new Stylophone Gen R-8
- Novation: new SL MkIII controller keyboard

NAMM 2019 Dubreq Stylophone GEN R-8 Analog Synthesizer

Published on Jan 24, 2019 SYNTH ANATOMY

"At NAMM 2019, Dubreq presented the Stylophone GEN R-8 semi-modular analog Synthesizer with an analog synth engine, sequencer and touch keyboard. Here is a first look video! Sorry for the bad audio, I had major recording issues."

Prototype Dubreq Stylophone S2 SN 8P3G1P

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"This is a very rare pre-production version of an obscure, but amazing-sounding 2-VC0 analogue synthesizer that was handmade in very limited quantities in Hastings in the UK. There's no box, but has a downloaded manual and is in very good condition.

This prototype has the beautiful metal ends that were replaced on the production version by not so nice white thermo-moulded plastic. This means the end cheeks are not labelled on this machine, but the controls there are just CV; gate; tuning; volume; external input; and power input.

This may appeal more to a collector given its somewhat eccentric design, but capable of very raw and powerful sounds, particularly if you like Radiophonic-style music or vintage EMS-style sounds. See Cuckoo and Automatic Gainsay clips on Youtube for a good demonstration of what it can do.

The S2 can be played from its own Wasp-like keyboard (by hand or stylus, included) or controlled via CV/gate. I ran it with a Roland A-01 for MIDI control, but any standard MIDI-CV converter such as a Kenton would do the job."

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Dubreq Announces the Stylophone Gen R-8 Pro Analog Synth

Published on Jan 15, 2019 Stylophone

"The Stylophone Gen R-8 - the latest analog touch synthesizer from Dubreq.

The Stylophone GEN R-8 is a dual VCO British made boutique synthesizer with a fully analog signal path and a touch keyboard that you can play with your finger.

The VCOs have "divide-down analog" sub-oscillators (one octave down) and subsub oscillators (two octaves down) that all can be switched on at the same time for a total of six oscillators sounding at once.

The filter is a proprietary British design 12 dB state variable filter with Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Wide Notch modes.

An eight waveform LFO with dual outputs can be patched to all of the GEN R-8s CV inputs or external CV inputs on other instruments.

There's a patch panel with 19 3.5mm jack CV/Gate and audio patch points which makes it integrate nicely with Eurorack systems.

The traditional ADSR envelope has been augmented with a short hold stage at the Attack/Decay peak for a punchier sound.

An analog style Delay (based on the Princeton pt2399 chip) is nice and grungy and can be modulated with the Time CV input.

The mixer has a unity AUX input which allows external sound sources to be processed through the GEN R-8s Filter/Delay/Drive audio chain, where the Drive is a classic British silicon diode overdrive circuit with an added JFET booster stage.

A step sequencer with 8 banks and 16 steps per sequence can play the GEN R-8 synthesizer engine or external synthesizers through the CV/Gate or MIDI outputs.

The GEN R-8 also works as a MIDI controller keyboard (with Local ON/OFF) where the CV/Gate outputs on the sequencer doubles as keyboard CV/Gate when the sequencer is not running.

Finally, the 3-octave touch keyboard has two additional performance keys for momentary engagement of Glide and Modulation, and it's all enclosed in a heavy duty black powder coated steel casing."

https://dubreq.com/genr8/

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