Stylophone Retro Pocket Synth - 2024 report by Whydis
Stylophone Retro Pocket Synth
Style:Stylophone
The Stylophone is a miniature stylus operated synthesizer invented in 1968 and used by such iconic musicians as David Bowie, Kraftwerk and Erasure. It features a metal keyboard played by touching it with a stylus. That's right, ove...
Pros: simple and fun, unique, cheap, works as a portable speaker for an mp3 playerCons: not incredibly high quality, I can see the novelty wearing off after a whileI got this as a gift for my brother who loves music and plays piano and a few other instruments.
I tried the headphone output to computer speakers, sounded decent but just the internal speaker of this unit is fine for the young fellow.
The original stylophone actually sounded pretty decent when you plugged it into a good speaker, but with this remake, doing so just makes the the ugly aliasing of the samples way more apparent
Use the line in to play with music, and the line out to hook up to better speakers
I was able to use this synthesizer on the go with my headphones as a tool for composition as well as a speaker for music playback and as a fun toy to mess around with
A good toy to goof around with, but really couldn't recommend it.
I was able to use this synthesizer on the go with my headphones as a tool for composition as well as a speaker for music playback and as a fun toy to mess around with
He recently started composing his own tunes so this was a great toy for him to use when deciding on notes
It might be easy to pass this mini-synth off as just a useless toy
It's a fun toy but some may use this offbeat tool to make music.
i have the stylophone and this device is even more fun.
Sounds nice and all, but the low C and B are the same note on the one i got, renders it rather useless to me.
When I gave it to my friend he showed me all of the amazing things this little device is capable of.
Its not something that I'm going to put my PRS or Strat down for, but its a cool little device for some neat little additional riffs to mess around with when you're playing, or to try to transpose stuff you love into a cool fun little pocket format, but geek style
This is a great little device its so fun to make music on this thing its so fun
Liked the sound, had a nice retro cheesy/creepy sound I guess you could say
This is a great little retro synth, three sound variations, tuner, and a vibrato setting
This is a really good styolophone and is super retro looking
Awesome retro sounds, and perfect to set on the end table for unplanned jam sessions!
I saw that Bowie used 1 of these little things in his song Space Oddity & decided to pick 1 up for kicks, due to its miniscule price & cool retro looks.
Great gift for a quirky musician who loves retro sounds
Got this as a Christmas present, and it proved to me a tad on the annoying side ( that may have been partly due to its recipient)But, it was a great gift and has lead to hours of fun
Unfortunately, I am one of the unlucky gift givers who received a nonworking unit on the first try
Bought it as a gift for someone and they were not impressed with the quality of the item
My nephew really loved this gift for Christmes a year or two ago, it was unexpected and quirky
Bought this after seeing a neat Stylophone video and it failed right out of the box
Our arrived as described above in good working order and was quickly getting enough use from myself and visitors that my girlfriend wanted to bash me with it...hooray stylophone!
this new stylophone is just a marvelously stupid and wonderfull as the original - except it's NEW... excellent!
There are some real stylo-Beethoven types on YouTube, but for most people the stylophone will be a bit like a kind of musical rubik's cube or pin art... a neat little coffee-table style object to mess around and make little tunes with.
For anyone who grew up when I did, the Stylophone immediately brings to mind David Bowie's "Space Oddity," and that's reason enough to me to justify owning one
It was great watching him go from confusion to delight as he figured out what this thing was.
Noted recordings which feature this instrument are David Bowie's 'Space Oddity'
Was ok but A and B on the key bord were exactly the same same thing with C# and D# don't waste you're money on this
Was ok but A and B on the key bord were exactly the same same thing with C# and D# don't waste you're money on this
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Style:Stylophone
The Stylophone is a miniature stylus operated synthesizer invented in 1968 and used by such iconic musicians as David Bowie, Kraftwerk and Erasure
It features a metal keyboard played by touching it with a stylus
That's right, over four decades ago with computers the size of a gymnasium and nary a PDA in sight the Stylophone was a portable electronic music instrument with stylus based control
This exact recreation of the original sounds the same as it did in the 60s
Simply remove the pen and tap any key for classic synth sounds
There is a switch to add vibrato and you can choose from one of three different retro organ type sounds
The tuning knob on the bottom allows for some pitch-bend effects if you must
The Stylophone is one of the simplest electronic instruments you will find, but it's minimal style is a big part of its charm
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