AliExpress Theremin all sounds 

lol i was thinkin the same thing

I would love to hear what you come up with! I'm impressed by the sounds available, and I had a lot of fun running it into some wild reverbs, I just haven't had time to explore it lately.

I've bought a couple antennas to try and improve on this and haven't had a ton of time yet to test them out. For $50ish I strongly recommend it as a musical tool to experiment with, and I love the Asian instrument sounds programmed as well as things like "broken piano" BUT many of those sounds react like an "on/off" trigger with the left hand, rather than a gradual volume. There are tones of traditional wave form synth/theremin sounds that do respond as expected to the volume control as well. Just wanted to keep you informed!

This is not really a theremin just a proximity trigger, if you want 'actual' playability and tone to use truly musically at budget look at the Open Theremin v4

Personally I can’t wait to get after this thing with some microcontrollers and cv signals. OP you are the man and a fuckin hero to-day. Love to you

You are right mister🎉😊

​@@nerdebynature hello mister!! I have a question.. where do you have bought the new antennas?? Thanks a lot

For the $50 or less price tag I'm really enjoying it. Especially with a nice reverb or delay pedal. I'm not great at controlling it yet, and there are two basic types of sounds. The continuous type, where the left hand controls the volume, or the trigger type, where the left hand triggers the beginning of the sound, if you lower your left hand to lower the volume on the trigger based sounds, it just cuts off the trigger, but again with the right reverb this is still plenty useful!

@@nerdebynature currently priced at $72 on Amazon in the US but I feel anything under $100 with this type of portability and list of features is well worth it... I do much more experimenting than recording so I really just enjoy the process... Great demo video though I feel I will definitely be picking one up soon...

@@nerdebynature id probably run it into my NTS-1, mini Kaos Pad, or my OP-Z to get additional FX...

@@iamYork_ so -if- you're comfortable ordering on AliExpress and waiting like 4 weeks you can probably find it for $45. I've had nothing but good luck with electronics on there except for the lengthy delivery dates. I also understand if you're not interested in using a site that some folks think is sketchy! I'm gonna give you a follow to see if/what you make with it! Take care!

@@nerdebynature don't know much about the site... Actually just ordered from Amazon... I like Amazon because of the speed and no question returns that can last almost two months.. especially with random tech like this... I have actually had better luck with Amazon then ordering direct from electronic stores around the world and direct from the manufacturer... Knock on wood... Thanks for the tip though... I will have a look at the site... In my case I am always ordering so much random tech for my experiments I would prefer it taking longer to receive hahah... So i get more time with my older equipment... Running out of space in my lab...

Thanks for checking this out! So, I have a lot of fun screwing around with it, but haven't made anything practical with it. I bought a separate standing antenna off of Amazon that I thought would be useful, but it has a long cord (it's meant to go on the roof of a boat or RV or something, and the entire cord counts as part of the antenna so I have to recalibrate it a lot. The bigger antenna didn't really help me with the accuracy. STILL, for under $50 I would recommend it to folks who like to fool around with electronic music gadgets. Some of the sounds are traditional thermin sounds, but some are just sampled sounds that moving your left hand triggers an on or off. And because it's a single sound, the lower notes are just the same sample played slower, which can have interesting sound results but far from perfect. I should do another video on this!

Mine came in approximately 5 weeks. I had some feedback/interference when running it off of a portable charger into a mixer, sounded like radio static in the background. Worked just fine with a traditional wall plug and even on it's own with the portable one, just not portable+mixer. So if you run into any feedback don't be discouraged. I'm excited to hear what you do with it!

Could you tell me how to change sounds? No other video explains it yet. One guy even seems clueless it has more than just the standard Theremin sound on his you tube video.

I do btw also already own a large MOOG theremin (I forget the model number but it's the large white torpedo shaped one) But I've ordered this for the large range of sounds in this.

@@bubcentral23 I will do a quick walkthrough video tomorrow! This is not gonna be as responsive as a Moog but I'm having fun with it!

Uploading a walkthrough video momentarily, sorry it took a few days! The hiss in the video is from the microphone, the theremin recorded rather nicely.

Hi friend! The listing I purchased it under was called "TZT theremin" but the way most of the things on AliExpress work is warehouse style, I've always purchased from whoever has the cheapest price including shipping. I've never had any issues with electronics not functioning properly, the only issue being long delivery times. I see this one on AliExpress for $35.99 right now, or on Amazon for $56.99, so it's a matter of if saving $20 is worth 4 weeks of waiting to you, for me it usually is worth the wait to save the $$$

@@nerdebynature Thanks man. Much appreciated. I'm gonna get one through AliExpress then...as the $20 difference is worth the wait.

If you are exclusive after the theremin sounds and effect I would go with the stylophone when it comes out. I imagine it tracks a bit better than this one. I enjoy this one for the extra sounds of the traditional Asian instruments built in, but it triggers those more like a keyboard than a theremin if that makes sense?

I can't even find a model number for this online to try to find any online forums

my goal is to have played like a full sized theremine, with both hand on the inside on the upright antenna. I've accomplished that but it still have to sort of do these odd motions, that are a tad inconsistent still, that are not typical in normal theremine playing

Oh neat! Where did you get the antenna replacements? I was interested in this myself. I haven't taken the time to try to make sense of the options in the settings as they seem poorly translated. I need to pick one sound and try to figure out what each item in the settings does.

@@jdangosilent5340 I tried playing around with some settings for about an hour tonight. I had fun toying around with it but didn't get much better about being able to find notes accurately.

@@nerdebynature I got the antennas on amazon in a pack that included both for 11.99 CAD. I played around with this for hours on end as well and watched way too many videos of people playing to try to match the classic sound. so this is what I landed on. let me know if you have a better plan. factory reset, settings, pitch sensitivity> turn all the way up, and keep it on the default sound. Then back out of the settings and head to the pitch settings and turn that up to 42. recalibrate. This is the closest I can find to being what a normal classic theremin sounds like, in my opinion

There are adjustable controls, but the only one I figured out how to control is how to extend your lowest notes. The interface isn't complicated looking, but not well translated maybe? There are multiple things that say they adjust left hand controls for instance but none that say they adjust the right hand (and at least one of these does adjust the right hand)

It has an 1/8" stereo out, seems to be identical signals, dual mono if you will. I think I'll be getting it out to play with a little more tonight!

Thanks! Have you heard about the new Stylophone Theremin? It looks pretty cool and pretty affordable?@@nerdebynature

@@jameslanclos568 It does look really cool!! I just got a stylophone beat for Christmas so I won't be grabbing their theremin right away, but it looks like it'll be worth buying!

Of course I'd love to get the Moog Theremin, but the Stylophone is more affordable and I will probably get it to play around with. And if I can do something with it, later I can get the Moog version.@@nerdebynature

This is a glorified toy. It is fun to play with, but it's barely compatible with headphones, let alone anything wise. I've had no luck improving the note accuracy, even with a much larger antenna for the right hand. But it was $50, and can make weird noisies and I can put it through pedals, so I'm satisfied!

It probably needs a larger antenna and higher voltage. Theres pluggins that allow you to translate base frequencies into midi signal so using one of those plugins this could easily be used for midi

No midi out, unfortunately. Just a 1/8 inch headphone jack.

No computer needed! Comes with 2 antenna, charging cable, and the unit itself. It does have an internal speaker but I have it hooked up to my mixer in this video

I bought it for like $47 on AliExpress. Took like 6 weeks to arrive but worth it for the fun!

@@nerdebynature Is niiice. Great success??

If you Google "AliExpress theremin" it will pop up in the sponsored/shopping section. AliExpress is seen by a lot of folks as a sketchy site/app, and this same product will be listed a dozen times with varying prices/brands attached to it. I got it for around $45 on there, it's available on Amazon for $72 at first glance.

@@nerdebynature I'm cool with Ali it's bigger overseas fa sho

No midi control,

Im going to be using mine for ios music apps. Theres one called midimorphosis that takes the signal from a guitar and translates it into live midi so i can use any sound i want with it

It is cheap sounding, but it is cheap!

Yes it can! It has a headphone out jack that I use a 3.5 mm to 6.35mm adapter to run it into effects pedals and a mixer.

@@nerdebynature perfecto 👌