{"id":511,"date":"2018-11-11T22:51:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T03:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2018-11-11T22:51:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T03:51:38","slug":"dreadbox-lil-erebus-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Dreadbox Lil&#8217; Erebus Build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard good things about the Dreadbox synths so when they announced the Lil&#8217; Erebus kit I grabbed it. And I did a time lapse video of the build! <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C7fo3qHN6Q4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty cool little synth. One cool thing is when you add resonance the low frequencies don&#8217;t go away like they do with most low pass filters. It has a nice fat, buzzy analog sound that I really like.<\/p>\n<p>However it&#8217;s definitely not a synth for everyone or all situations. There are loud clicks when you let go of a note. There is no envelope generator for the VCA. I patched on in and found it didn&#8217;t work the way you would expect. Instead of the release<br \/>\njust slowly fading it would hold the note longer, then suddenly fades very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>And like the Polymoog, you have only a single waveform for each oscillator. This gives you a sawtooth and a square wave and that&#8217;s it. If you use this with a modular synthesizer it&#8217;s fine since you will have more oscillators and LFOs and this is just in addition to those.<\/p>\n<p>So all in all a nice addition to the modular synth, but it would be nice to just take a direct filter output and use an external VCA, or just mix it in with other audio before the VCA. <\/p>\n<p>All music in the video was done only with the Lil&#8217; Erebus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard good things about the Dreadbox synths so when they announced the Lil&#8217; Erebus kit I grabbed it. And I did a time lapse video of the build! It&#8217;s a pretty cool little synth. One cool thing is when you add resonance the low frequencies don&#8217;t go away like they do with most low &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}