#DREADBOX EREBUS UPDATE#
#DREADBOX EREBUS PATCH#

Glad to see both synthesizers making a comeback in their old form. But if the kits are selling well, Yannis and his team will consider making assembled versions.

Like the new Dysmetria, the new Erebus and Hades will only be available as a beginner-friendly DIY. CV Outputs: LFO, Envelope (attenuated), Modulation Wheel (attenuated), Gate, Osc1 pitch (1V/oct), Osc2 pitch (1V/oct).CV Inputs: Osc1, Osc2, Echo time, VCF, CV, GATE, LFO rate, PW , VCA A faithful recreation of a dark synth legend.

#DREADBOX EREBUS PATCH#

On the right side, you can find a feature-rich patch matrix with 15 patch points including: Further, it comes with the same delay/echo unit that is loved by many.

#DREADBOX EREBUS UPDATE#

It uses also the same great-sounding circuit but now in SMD and with a small but good update in the modulation.Įrebus DIY gives you two VCOs with separate glide controls, a 2pole (12dB/oct) resonating lowpass filter, two digital envelopes (ADSR, AR), and single LFO with additional CV depth control. Dreadbox Hades Reissue Monophonic Analog Bass Synthesizer POWER & CABLE KIT. The second in the comeback bunch is Erebus semi-modular 2-voice paraphonic analog synth. Dreadbox Erebus Reissue Paraphonic Analog Synthesizer POWER & CABLE KIT. It can be played either via CV/Gate or via MIDI. There is a triangle wave LFO and it’s patchable via an 8-point matrix that is fully Eurorack compatible. The analog envelopes of the first version were very slow so they decide to use digital ones which are faster. There was also a note inside the manual, that this is the Erebus 1.02 model and there is now a dip switch.

On the modulation side, it now features two digital envelopes, a super snappy ADR, and an AR on the VCA. I must say that Dreadbox customer support is A++. It offers a 3-pole 18dB/oct Roland SH-style resonating lowpass filter, OTA-based distortion circuit, and VCA. Hades is an analog semi-modular bass Synthesizer with a single VCO with PWM, glide options, and two sub-octaves. It uses the same great-sounding circuit but is made this time in SMD and with a small update in the modulation. The Erebus is coming back this summer as a desktop/Eurorack module as a DIY kit.Īnd the Hades analog synth is also making a comeback in the same do-it-yourself format. Personally I don't mind too much as I planned to sequence it mostly with Hapax, but still a bit disappointed.Superbooth 22: Dreadbox brings the Erebus and Hades semi-modular analog Synthesizer back to the market as affordable beginner-friendly DIY kits.Īt the last Superbooth, Dreadbox announced that it was discontinuing its popular semi-modular analog synthesizers Erebus and Nyx due to chip shortage. If this is how it's supposed to work I feel it's a bit misleading to market it as eurorack compatible without mentioning that it's very inconvenient to use without midi. I don't think I could have messed the build as it didn't involve any soldering just plugging boards together. OSC 3 has a total of 6 wave forms, white noise, and allows a greater range of tuning.

Both OSC 1 and OSC 2 offer identical controls and features, except OSC 2 offers a triangle wave instead of a pulse wave. Do I have a faulty unit or is this how Erebus have always worked? I found some mention on V3 Erebus thread about poor cv tracking and Dreadbox telling that's expected. After mastering the effects pedal, Dreadbox invaded the synth world with their wildly popular Erebus semi-modular synth and the vintage-style Murmux. The Oscillators The Erebus v3 is equipped with 3 voltage-controlled, analog oscillators (VOCs). Then I tried with midi and everything seems to be working as expected, tracking is fine over several octaves and octave swithes work.Īccording to some interviews with Yannis from Dreadbox the diy kit should be very close to the mk2 Erebus except the envelopes which are digital and should be faster and slightly smaller form factor with eurorack compatible front panel. Second calibration didn't change anything so I concluded that the unit must be faulty. I thought that I had messed up the calibration somehow and went through the process again making sure everything went correctly. I tried to sequence with cv and the tracking was very bad. After the build and calibration I first tried the synth just by plugging the square lfo into gate input without plugging in any midi device and noticed I could only get very low notes out of it that way, the octave switches didn't seem to be doing anything even though they worked as expected during the calibration process. I recently bought re-issue Erebus diy kit and noticed that it's quite unusable without midi.

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