STYLOPHONE 350S

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"STYLOPHONE 350S

The huge older brother to the small stylophones of the late 60's early 70's, this is a rare and amazing sounding synthesizer.

One rare & amazing sounding synthesizer, with multi-effects & two-stylus operation. This is the huge high-end older brother to the tiny Stylophone organs of the 60's & 70's. Bizarre sci-fi synth tones & effects, with a photo-sensor vibrato way ahead of its time. In great working condition, well-maintained & ready to play. This awesome rarity is a great addition to anyone's collection.

This is Dubreq's professional version of their original Stylophone. The 350S is much larger, to be played on a table or rack rather than hand-held like the Stylophone. It has two styli, a 3.5 octave keybed, many effects & functions, plus a larger speaker. Only a few thousand of these were sold & they're quite collectible now.

Dubreq Ltd estimates all Stylophone 350S's in operable condition worldwide to be about 200-300. This is rare for any musical instrument. This unit is fully functional, and it sounds just weird, out of this world, a musical time warp.

FEATURES:
Controls: Volume, Photo-Control Vibrato/Waa Waa, 2 waveforms, Decay, Reiteration, 2 styli, 3.5 Octave Keybed, Speaker

Tones: Woodwind, Brass, Strings & combined&, Pitch Tune Control External Jacks: Input, Pedal, Output to Speaker

Battery power: uses 2 x PP9 Batteries (which are INCLUDED)

CONDITION: Barely used, clean, works 100%. Working great."

Stylophone Trio

YouTube Uploaded by peahix on Mar 28, 2012

"Hear a fancy recording of this piece here: http://soundcloud.com/peahix/stylophone-trio [embed below]

This is a live performance of a trio I wrote for stylophones. The stylophonists are myself, Scott Paulson and Christian Hertzog. This was performed at the UCLA library as part of an all-stylophone concert organized by Scott Paulson. There are a few mistakes here and there, and the mix isn't great, but you get the idea!"


"I was commissioned to write a piece for Stylophone by Scott Paulson of UCSD to be performed as part of the Stylophone Festival he put on at the library there. I decided to write a Stylophone trio, and exploit all the various features of the instrument. The performance wasn't perfect (see video link), but I put together this recording that gets the piece across pretty clearly. The only thing I had to cheat on was the palm mutes, because I wanted to record direct instead of sticking a mic on the speaker. So I used a low pass filter in Cubase instead."

Stylophone Gen X-1 Stylus Hack: How to sequence the Stylophone Gen X-1 using the Korg SQ-1

video upload by Stylophone

"How to sequence the Stylophone Gen X-1 using the Korg SQ-1

1) Connect the Stylophone Gen X-1 stylus pen to a lead going to one of the CV outputs on the Korg SQ-1.

2) Make sure they are earthed together through an input or output.

In this video some Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator rhythm is added to the mix. Here the PO is connected at the aux input, which is all processed by the filter and delay on the Stylophone Gen X-1"

Stylophone S1 and Stylophone Gen X-1 jam!

video upload by Stylophone

"An awesome jam using the Stylophone S1 and Stylophone Gen X-1."

Stylophone Gen X-1 | Portable Analog Synth | Overview + Demo

Published on Jun 10, 2019 littleBIGsynths

"Dubreq Stylophone Gen X-1 Overview & sound demo

Hey guys! I recently acquired a Stylophone Gen X-1. I've always wanted to play an original stylophone, but this newer version seems so much more flexible and "useable". With the addition of a 2 wave LFO, resonant low pass filter, envelope generator, and other synth controls, the Gen X-1 takes the Stylophone to another level. 😉 This thing totally packs a lot of synth in a small, inexpensive package."

Stylophone Gen X-1: Create a spacey sound with a tape loop!

video upload by Stylophone

"How to create a spacey sound with the Stylophone Gen X-1 and tape loop!

1) Use the resonance knob on the Stylophone Gen X-1 to find some interesting harmonics

2) Manipulate the filter knob of the Stylophone Gen X-1 to create a whistling effect and add richness"

Stylophone S-1 tabs for Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division plus Stylophone Gen X-1 tutorial

video upload by Stylophone

"Learn to play Love Will Tear Us Apart on your Gen X-1. And...
Get that smooth, silvery ’string pad’ effect using your Stylophone Gen X-1 with the Zoom Multistomp pedal.

More Stylophone tutorial, tips and tricks: www.instagram.com/stylophone_official ✌️❤️"

Stylophone S-1 Bowie: Unboxing & Demo (Limited Edition w/optional case)

video upload by Musical Miscellany (Poorness Studios)

"I got this as a Christmas present. The Stylophone Bowie is a limited run of the S-1 Stylophone dedicated to the late David Bowie. It functions like a normal S-1 Stylophone but has a slightly different aesthetic. I also check out the Limited Edition case in this video.

Intro - 0:00
Stylophone Unbox & Overview - 1:13
Case Unbox & Overview - 2:54
Sound Samples (direct audio) - 3:33
Included Tabs - 6:33
Internal Speaker Demo - 7:44
Conclusion - 8:37"

Stylophone S1 and Stylophone Gen X-1 jam!

video upload by Stylophone

"A great jam using the Stylophone S1 and Stylophone Gen X-1."

Dubreq to Launch New Stylophone S2 on Steroids - All Analog with 10 Knobs

"The iconic ‘Stylophone’ pocket synth, played by everyone from David Bowie toKraftwerk to Orbital to Gotye, which has sold over 4 million units since it’screation by Brian Jarvis of Dubreq in 1968 has just grown up....

Dubreq Ltd, now run by Ben Jarvis, a product designer and son of the Stylophone’soriginal inventor, today launches the Stylophone ‘S2’ on the world synth market. The S2 is a portable (just 308mm X 120mm X 26mm and less than 1kg/2lbs inweight) fully spec’d analogue synthesizer that is designed and built entirely in theUK.

The S2 features the famous Stylophone metal keyboard, now 3 octaves long andplayable with the included wire-free stylus or by finger touch, a +/- 2 octaveshifter, an all analogue signal path, a classic British style 12dB/octave state-variable filter, dual all-transistor voltage controlled oscillators, sub-oscillators for super-fat bass, an eight waveform LFO with a 14 octave range, an auxiliary-input to use the filter and envelope-generator for other instruments, a 1/4” output jack socket as well as an internal speaker and headphone socket and a CV and Trigger input sockets.

Recommended retail Price of the S2 will be just £299 UKP or $479 USD

The S2 will be shown at NAMM in California January 23rd to 27th 2013 on theStylophone stand (stand 1033). Dubreq are working in the UK with our distributionpartners John Hornby Skewes and the S2 is available globally direct from Dubreq" http://www.stylophone2.com

Stylophone 305S

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"First of all, it’s certainly true to say that it’s much larger than the regular Stylophone – which is, after all, about the size of an inch-and-a-half thick postcard.

The 350S is a souped-up Stylophone in every way: instead of the Stylophone’s 20 notes – an octave and a half – the 350S has 44. That’s three and a half octaves, and you can see in the picture the difference in length between the two keyboards.

Not only that, the 350S has eight voices, as opposed to one (or even the S1’s three), and some of these are themselves in different octaves.

The voices are designated ‘woodwind’, ‘brass’ and ‘strings’. In these days of sample-based synths, none of these sound terribly much like what they say they are, but they have the general qualities of these instruments – and, despite what you may read, one or two of them are quite like the distinctive tone of the regular Stylophone that we all know and love!"

You'll find additional details on the 305S at the listing or Andy Murkin's Music Electronics blog, where it appears to have been pulled from.

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Stylo-101 (Stylophone+SH-101) for iOS

Another one from the makers of Advanced Mobile Drummer posted earlier today.

"I-phone 5 friendly! What do you get if you cross a Stylophone with the famous Roland SH-101? Well We have circuit-bent a virtual Stylophone and added Roland SH-101 modifications. You can create wacky and eerie sounds to meaty bass lines. As well as the Stylophone sound, you now have an extra oscillator driving a sawtooth wave with filter and resonance from the SH-101. You can adjust the mixer for each oscillator and the LFO can control oscillators and amp. We have increased the LFO speed and depth of the pitch modulation. We have also added an SH-101 style sequencer for creating bass lines or arpeggios. It is still monophonic but the notes will continue to decay if you release your finger before playing another key. You can also play over the top of the sequence while its playing.

2 oscillator monophonic synth
oscillator 1: saw, tri, square
oscillator 2: SH-101 Saw with SH-101 filter, SH-101 resonance (4 preset levels) and detune
LFO-pitch
LFO-AMP
Master Transpose
Mixer for osc1 and osc2
Arp/sequencer with tempo
Release controls notes played and sequencer
Attack controls notes only
2 oscillator monophonic synth
oscillator 1: saw, tri, square
oscillator 2: SH-101 Saw with SH-101 filter, SH-101 resonance (4 preset levels) and detune
LFO-pitch
LFO-AMP
Master Transpose
Mixer for osc1 and osc2
Arp/sequencer with tempo
Release controls notes played and sequencer
Attack controls notes only

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Stylo-101 (Stylophone+SH-101) - Rob Wilmot


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Stylophone Model 350s

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Like a reversed Atari 2600.

"For auction is a very rare Stylophone 350s. This was an early Syntesizer made in the UK. The original models were made for home use, but the 350s was DubReq's venture into a "professional" performance instrument.

It's weird, and that's good. Bands like Jon Spencer, Kraftwerk, artists like Bowie and Jack White, all used this or a version of this on recordings. Most notably, Bowie used a Stylophone in his seminal song Space Oddity.

This particular model was purchased new, however it did not include the actual box, only the styrofoam packaging. I used it a couple times several years ago, maybe a total of 3 hours, only at home and only by me.

The 350s works by using to electric styli to operate a keyboard. There is also a photo sensitive cell that works similar to a pitch bend. The unit has input and outputs and operated on 9v or an AC adaptor (both not included).

Here are the specs:" [at the bottom of this post after the pics]

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The Stylophone BEAT - Take a 360 degree tour!

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"Get right up close and check out all the features of the Stylophone BEAT!"

Also see: Introducing the Stylophone BEAT

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.

STYLOPHONE GEN X-1 GUIDE: How to sequence the STYLOPHONE GEN X-1 using the Korg SQ-1!

video upload by Stylophone

"Connect the Stylophone Gen X-1 stylus to a lead going to the one of the CV outputs on the Korg SQ-1.

(Make sure they are earthed together through an input or output for it to work)

In this video some Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator rhythm is added to the mix too. Here the PO it is connected at the aux input, which is all processed by the filter and delay on the Gen X-1✌️❤️"

Learn the Stylophone S-1 tabs and Stylophone Gen X-1 bass settings for Kraftwerk’s Tour de France

video upload by Stylophone

"Play along to Kraftwerk’s classic Tour de France using the tabs and watch our easy-to-follow settings tutorial to get the bass sound on your Stylophone Gen X-1."

Stylophone S2 Analog Synthesizer At 2013 NAMM Show

Published on Jan 27, 2013 James Lewin·15 videos

"Ben Jarvis of Dubreq introduces the new Stylophone S2 synthesizer.

Though it 'shares some DNA' with its precursor, the regular Stylophone, the Stylophone S2 is a different beast - intended to be an full-on analog synth."

First Video of the Dubreq Stylophone S2

Published on Dec 19, 2012 by dubreq

http://www.stylophone2.com

"The new Dubreq Stylophone S2 takes the basic idea of the Stylophone, a stylus played instrument that uses a printed circuit board as the keyboard, and turns it into a fully spec'd analogue synthesizer.

The Stylophone S2 is an entirely British made, analogue synthesizer that will fit in a laptop bag. The S2 features include; All metal construction, a full 37 note 3 octave keyboard with +/- 2 octave shifter featuring a wire-free stylus and finger-touch playing method, an all analogue signal path, a classic British style 12dB/octave state-variable filter, dual all-transistor voltage controlled oscillators, sub-oscillators for super-fat bass, an eight waveform LFO with a 14 octave range, an auxiliary-input socket to use the filter and envelope-generator for other instruments, a 1/4" output jack socket as well as an internal speaker and headphone socket and a CV and Trigger input sockets."

Stylophone GEN R-8 demo part 4/4 full video - Giorgio Moroder Chase

Published on Jan 22, 2019 Stylophone

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

Stylophone GEN R-8