This is a dream synth for me - my favorite type of synthesis and extreme portability! Love the color as well - got so tired of boring black boxes. You can easily play a couple of hours of ambient/experimental music with just this thing. Bravo 1010music!
Again, my thanks to Sweetwater for picking probably the most under-rated demo man in the industry these days (as opposed to Disney voice-over rejects, aspiring salesmen, over-dressed/under-developed hipster duos and the like), our good friend and reserved tech specialist Mr. Fisher, whose keen ear for ambience and dissonance remain unmatched in the often irritating world music/tech content. -Always the right man for the right machines, today being NO exception. I would have picked up the Lemondrop, anyway (at roughly $400.00, who wouldn't?!), but this demo definitely sealed the deal. Thanx again!
A lot of people are saying it is too expensive, but though it is a bit out of reach for me without saving up, what else sounds like this at the price range without relying on VSTs? It is quite cool. I'd jump on it if it was $100 less, but as it is I'll keep it in mind for a day where I feel a little flush. I'm just looking for gear that fills the gaps in my current live rig with no laptop. And damned if this doesn't fit right in.
Oh no, I wish I hadn't seen this, great sound and control over the wave form, touch screen is a nice performance feature and looks good to take on the go too
I have a 7 year old and he has 2 keyboards and one of my guitars and after digging this intro i will be claiming to get this for him but of course it will be for me!
I absolutely love this synth, it sounds amazing. Love the fact you can just play through it and tweak the waves in a granular manner and i looks really easy to import samples. It kind of reminds me of my Roli Lightpad but with much more functionality amnnd i dont need a computer
Didn't hesitate to pull the trigger on this and fireball, good job Daniel. All I originally started out to do was update my blackbox to 2.0, that's it, not to sound like Han Solo or anything, but it's not my fault! hahahaha.
Plus points: sound quality Minus points: price (100 quids less would have been more appropriate IMO), cheap looking plastic housing I bet Behringer will answer soon... and thanks to D. Fisher for letting the instrument speak for itself, without constant voice-over
If there was a pitch mode that enabled you to separate the pitch from the play speed of the sample (like the roland elastic audio v synth approach) this thing would have a stronger case for the price point in my eyes. More granular options is always great though. DF always bringing the demo magic as the synth god that he is lol.
Hi Fire Sail Studios. The external Eurorack oscillator was set to a fixed pitch. So all four of the processed notes you were hearing are examples of the Lemondrop's ability to change the pitch of either the internal or external samples, which is awesome. Thanks for watching! -_Daniel_
Granular synthesis is the sheeeeit. I feel like it is the last "new" or "futuristic" sound that will ever be invented. Who knows though. Maybe there are still new futuristic sounds to be invented or discovered and it is only my failure of our imaginations that no one has thought of it. Regardless, I love it. Gorgeous, chaotic, textural, and futuristic!
Additive synthesis is the future, it’s just too resource intensive and nobody has managed to make an intuitive/versatile frontend for additive synthesis.
Hi. You say that you can send a modular synth in the external input, but, in the site, it says max 2Vrms. In confused and I wouldn't want to break the Nanobox Lemondrop with a input level that's too high. 2Vrms is equivalent to what V level peak to peak when we're talking of a sine wave?
This is the best product review. He uses a keyboard controller to show the depth and flexibility of the the devices. This guy OWNED that electro harmonix Ego Syth engine pedal in the demo he did awhile back on Syths and guitar pedals.
Hi Ben. You'd probably have to put the mic through a preamp first and then adapt it down to an 1/8" TS cable. But you should know that the input signal gets buffered by several seconds so that it can be manipulated forward and backward in time. -_Daniel_
Hi Sweetwater. Can you use a DC5.0V wall charger to power the Lemondrop? I use it to charge my phone and KYBERS-light saber, and it works great. Thank You!
@@sweetwater Hi Daniel. My charger says on the back, minimum 150Mah and Maximum 2100 Mah, would this charger work? if not what would you recommend, as I would love to purchase the Lemondrop, but want the correct power source. Thank You Daniel Expanding Knowledge
hello daniel..my question is ..could you have multiple lemon drops playing all going through maybe a 1010 mixer..just wondered if this is posible or would it sound bad
First shout out to SWeetwater for their service, their patience,and my PolyEnd Tracker..Now here you go,with another gem,so I guess I will be ordering my Lemondrop soon..These gadgets along with my hardware samplers will give me a reason not to buy more keyboards...
Hi bloothbub. I received the prototype Fireball and Lemondrop units before there was a manual, so I'll have to dig and learn if Program Changes are implemented. But I do know for sure that MIDI CCs can be freely assigned to *any* of the parameters that have three Modulation Sources, and that the CC#s can be any number from 1-127. The samples, whether they're pre-loaded factory samples, or samples you've added, all live on the 32GB SD card and are loaded on demand. -_Daniel_
Hi whiteperill. All samples live on the SD card. You can add you own samples to the SD card, but you have to create the samples on your laptop or other device. -_Daniel_
Every granular synth demo is all about ambient weird shit. Wonderful. How about doing one where you sample a lead from a trance track and replicate it? Try Madagascar ferry corsten remix.
Granular synths are good at creating new sounds out of ones that already exist, which is good for experimental ambient. Mono synths are ideal for leads. You can try to play, what sounds like a, guitar solo with a violin if you want but it's best just to use a guitar.
