Tame Impala’s Telepathic Instruments is hosting an Orchid popup store at this year’s Amsterdam Dance EventKevin Parker’s (Tame Impala) Telepathic Instruments will be taking over Filling Pieces at this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) for a five-day popup store, where the massively popular synth and chord generator Orchid will be available to try in Europe for the first time.
This year’s ADE runs from 22-26 October, a massive conference and festival for dance and electronic music lovers and professionals across Amsterdam. The event draws hundreds of thousands of visitors annually, with events from DJ sets to discussions about music technology. Google DeepMind, ElevenLabs and LANDR are among some of the brands leading music tech discussions at this year’s event.

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Following two sold-out drops of Orchid and its subsequent global launch last month, Kevin Parker’s Telepathic Instruments is bringing the device to ADE to allow “producers, artists, songwriters – and the simply curious” to take it for a spin.
Those first two drops sold out in minutes, inspiring Telepathic Instruments to scale things up for the global launch, introducing a number of community-requested features including pre-programmed beats by Kevin Parker, quantisation, drum FX, user sound saving, loop save and recall, and ten brand-new sounds.
The third drop also marked the release of Pistil, Orchid’s companion plugin which allows two-way sync with Orchid hardware and seamless integration into DAWs.

“Telepathic has turned feedback into features, ideas into interfaces, and accidents into innovations in this third release,” the brand said.
“Orchid is designed to help songwriters, producers, and artists find what’s on their mind, and what began as Parker’s sketchpad has evolved into a refined, community-shaped instrument, now ready for its first true global release.”
Conceived over a decade ago by Kevin Parker as a personal songwriting tool, Orchid is a 12-key, 16-voice polyphonic synth with an intuitive chord generating interface, three synth engines, and a chord logic system for quickly building chord progressions. 
Though relatively fresh to the market, Orchid is already making big waves in the music landscape, and can be heard, for example, on Kid Cudi’s Submarine, Don Toliver’s Call Back, and in the songwriting of Janelle Monáe, Diplo, Fred Again, Joy Anonymous, Madison Beer, Logic, Mark Hoppus, Ryan Tedder, Murda Beatz, Gracie Abrams, Sara Landry and many more.
Amsterdam Dance Event is underway, and tickets are still available.
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