Stylophone DS-2: Seven Fun Patch Ideas to Spark Your Dronespiration!

[@OscillatorSink]

Do you have a favourite tip, trick or patch? Let's share some drone-spiration in this thread!

[@BombaclartGarfunkel]

WHY ISN'T IT CALLED THE STYLODRONE

[@OscillatorSink]

OH MY GOD, IT WAS RIGHT THERE!

[@paulbeattie1182]

Oh it totally is now! ❤

[@defjeff2907]

Brilliant!

[@repeat_defender]

They really missed the mark on naming it!

[@cartertakesatrain7108]

Your joy is palpable 😊

[@OscillatorSink]

Synths are fun!

[@beaker1977]

Been playing with one of these on the coffee table on/off for a week - got some cool sounds as I have been figuring things out but these are next level. Inspired. Subscribed 🙌🏻

[@OscillatorSink]

@@beaker1977 hope you have fun exploring these ideas!

[@tomtebby7408]

Love the groove box patch - got straight into it with my DS-2.

[@OscillatorSink]

Yessss! Get to it!

[@ianhewitt5891]

A superb demo, pinging the filter, what a phenomenal patch.

[@OscillatorSink]

@@ianhewitt5891 thank you! That's probably my favourite of the bunch too!

[@repeat_defender]

I just bought one, can’t flipping wait!

[@OscillatorSink]

I hope you enjoy it!

[@defjeff2907]

27:28 at this moment I exclaimed OH SHIiiT!!! You rule Mr Sink!!

[@OscillatorSink]

Tfw the bass line drops.

[@joninio6542]

And it was at this moment he knew - "He had to buy it". Yep, went over to Dubreq's site and confirmed my order. Thanks again Oscillator Sink for helping my GAS habit.

[@OscillatorSink]

Send my heartfelt apologies to your bank account.

[@judaslukas]

I am so glad you got this synth! Such an amazing video! I did the filter pinging and spent a very long time doing it all while getting lost in the delay and reverb! It certainly takes on a whole other sound when you use the HP filter and mess around with the filter LFO depth. Thank you for another wonderful video sir 😁

[@OscillatorSink]

Thanks for the kind words! I'm a simple man: I see a filter, I ping it!

[@DMRobot101]

The Groovebox Patch at first sounds simple and limited but the DS-2 provides so many sonic possibilities. Really nice groove! 🕺

[@tomtebby7408]

I immediately had to grab my DS-2 to try it out - lost about an hour in acid land

[@nickdestruct]

Ahh i missed this video. This little thing has kept me busy for the last few weeks. 😊

[@OscillatorSink]

@@nickdestruct it's OK, you're only a day late! Good to have you here!

[@IntiAlonso]

That last patch is amazing.

[@OscillatorSink]

Synth becoming drum machine is my favourite genre of patches.

[@DMRobot101]

Amazing! At 16:15 I could start hearing the potential in having the DS-2 filter pinging and exploring the results. It feels like it transports one to a 50s style SciFi adventure. Thanks! 🚀

[@OscillatorSink]

Cheers! Pinged filters, especially when you find one that really responds well to it, are a wonderful thing, and yes, often very evocative of those early, experimental days of electronic music.

[@SonicVibe]

Let’s go 🎉! It’s a amazing piece of gear ⚙️ thanks for the tips, I’ll save this video and can’t wait for the rest of the models in the series. Side note speaker is way more useful then first thought 💭

[@I.O.M.]

Thanks for the patch ideas. I really want to see what can just be done in the box 👍

[@sound.workshop]

Wow awesome patches. My favorites were the pinging and the pitch shifting delay.

[@OscillatorSink]

Those are definitely the prettiest of the bunch.

[@SphericEl]

Inspiring stuff as ever Mr Sink. That ping was just magic. I'm still not going to buy one but hope to try that on my behringer Kobol Expander - just turn the Oscillators right down 🌝👍

[@zoned7609]

27:50 absolutely magical

[@OscillatorSink]

Yeah, this patch is really good fun (and very on-brand for me)!

[@markparker4362]

Mines finally arrived so looking forward to trying some of these ideas. Great work!!

[@OscillatorSink]

@@markparker4362 yessss! Have fun with it!

[@sequencist]

this is gold

[@rolandpyle8914]

Thank you for these suggestions.... very helpful in exploring the DS2

[@OscillatorSink]

You're very welcome - have fun exploring!

[@Kothag]

So far my favorite is making RD-D2/Droid sounds. Crank the resonance on one of the filters, and route the LFO to the cutoff with max LFO depth. Works best with one of the square wave type LFO shapes. Then experiment with the LFO rate and cutoff.

[@OscillatorSink]

@@Kothag the classic bleep-bloops never go out of style! Try using a low-tuned square wave oscillator on the other drone voice rather than the lfo - you'll get some really fun ring-mod-esque tones that way!

[@Kothag]

@ thanks for tip! That ended up being an amazing patch.

[@OscillatorSink]

Audio rate modulation of a filter is ususlly a good time.

[@kevinaaronson]

Thank you for the tips, especially the second nasty filter one, holy cow.

[@OscillatorSink]

@@kevinaaronson I *KNEW* there would be other lovers of disgusting sounds in my audience! Even if you're the only one, it was still totally worth it!

[@steviemac2000]

I got two 'proper' synths the same week I got the DS-2 and have barely touched them. This thing is unexpectedly great. The pinged filter bit pure reminded me of Backdrifts by Radiohead.

[@OscillatorSink]

It shouldn't be surprising that Stylophone are well placed to understand what makes a synth fun, but I don't think most people were ready to just...enjoy it!

[@fischergreen4134]

Wonderful stuff

[@OscillatorSink]

Cheers! Thanks for watching!

[@BobHoskins-nv8bt]

Thanks for this video

[@OscillatorSink]

@@BobHoskins-nv8bt thanks for watching!

[@ProfessorHumblesDelusions]

Great video. Could you advise on a supplier of proper good quality patch cables? Thx

[@OscillatorSink]

Thanks! I think I've just bought mine off Amazon - not had a single one fail and for this synth in particular they don't need to be long at all. You didn't say where you were from, which probably changes the answer, but an alternative in the UK would be a dedicated synth shop like Elevator Sound, Signal Sound or Juno.

[@zoned7609]

Yay!

[@OscillatorSink]

@@zoned7609 ❤️

[@karlirish8396]

Have you gotten any interest to make a video about the Sonicware Liven Ambient 0?

[@OscillatorSink]

I personally have an interest in it, but it's a case of too much cool gear, but not enough money to buy it all (and the 5 or 6 quid I'd make off the video doesn't really cover it). There's so much cool gear I'd like to do videos about if money was infinite!

[@thomp9054]

Sweet

[@SirSybian]

Why did dubreq have monkeys demo'ing their stuff at namm? You'd think they'd want to sell their products right?

[@DarrenKeig]

This is eye-opening stuff. As a total beginner, just watching you work helped me to understand how some of this stuff works. Don't suppose you want to do an idiot's guide to how to approach it?

[@OscillatorSink]

Thanks for watching! I'd actually suggest taking a look at some basic videos on modular synthesis in general rather than something tailored just to this synth. Getting a grounding in the basic building blocks of subtracting synthesis (this is fundamentally a subtractive synth) and thinking about how to apply them to this synth will probably help you bed in the concepts better. Andrew did a good primer: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYjWnYaKidCcfLcsi=0REKLgX3ESpwochY As is this one from Dave: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXO3ZayZodmZeKcsi=SqY826Ii7ojmA_UY

[@theinvisibleman-e8v]

Try doing that on a VST

[@odd_sundays]

unboxed mine when i got home from work today and immediately lost 3 hours inside the wormhole.

[@OscillatorSink]

That's the way it goes!

[@shrinkingted]

Sounds really, really good. Very inspiring. Can´t wait to try it out. Thanks.

[@OscillatorSink]

Thanks for watching! It's a super fun little box!

[@TheKaptainKernow]

No, I didn't like the video, it's just cost me £200, and my Postie's going to get annoyed with me badgering them to see if it's here until it arrives.

[@OscillatorSink]

@@TheKaptainKernow I hate it when that happens to me, so I sympathise. Enjoy your new synth!

[@kingtetvideo]

Too hard to watch, all these finger movements while you're talking is like a children's puppet show. Good info, but hard to watch. Please consider eliminating the puppet show on future videos. Maybe just show your face when you're just talking. Thank you.

[@OscillatorSink]

@@kingtetvideo constantly cutting between my face and the synth would be maddening. I wouldn't want to watch that.

[@SphericEl]

That's like saying please don't speak Oscillator Sink - that's why we love him:)

[@kingtetvideo]

@ I understand, the logistics are an important consideration. You can simply do the intro parts without waving your hands around. There's another tuber that does this excessively and I had to stop watching.

[@OscillatorSink]

@@kingtetvideo I suspect you might have to stop watching me too then. My hands move when I speak in real life too. That's OK, not everyone is going to be to your tastes.

[@repeat_defender]

Bro, I think that’s a you problem. Nobody else is bothered by this.

[@defjeff2907]

Delisiosly discusting!!

[@OscillatorSink]

@@defjeff2907 that's the vibe.

[@jpm9628]

Can you patch an SQ 1 into it and get cv/gate control of the oscillators? Sort of traditionally?

[@erlannderrantem6972]

Yep others did videos of that already

[@OscillatorSink]

CV for pitch, filter (which is also v/oct) absolutely - I actually show this in the first patch - I'm even using an SQ-1, although it's off-screen. You don't have a VCA or an envelope so "gate" is less useful, but a great, inexpensive way to "fix" that is to use a little, passive low-pass gate (a 0HP one is most convenient). I'm planning a video where I pair the DS-2 with other stuff, and that'll be one of the pairings.

[@DMRobot101]

@@OscillatorSink I have a Keystep, Beatstep and Werkstatt-01. Would love to see how the DS-2 pairs with these 😃

[@nicksrc908]

Haha I set the knobs exactly like yours , at the ending and it’s perfectly in tune, in stereo.😊