Stylophone Theremin

What happens when you combine the quirky analog sound of the original pocket synthesizer with the technology of a vintage electronic instrument? Create crazy drones, spooky melodies, otherworldly sci-fi zaps, and much more.

The Stylophone Theremin is a portable, touch-sensitive synthesizer that creates experimental sounds by detecting your movement.

Just wave your hand around its antenna, move its slide from side to side, and go over the edge with mad modulation, wobbly vibrato, and crunchy echoing delay for crazy, quirky, sci-fi sound creation.

• Powered by AA batteries 
  
• Control with your body
• Portable
• Drone or trigger notes
• Built-in speaker with volume control
  
• Built-in vibrato and delay effects
• Connect any wired headphones and other equipment simultaneously
• Batteries not included

Analog sound-making gadget

Whether you’re a music maker, a beginner synth enthusiast, or you just want to have fun making noise, the Stylophone Theremin takes the retro analog sound of a synth icon and makes it wilder than ever.

Move, slide, touch, trigger

Make sounds by moving your fingers, arms, or whole body with the extendable antenna, quickly zip between musical notes with the slider, and choose between snappy triggered notes and drawn-out drones.

Experimental sonic extras

Make your sounds wobble with vibrato, create glitchy mayhem with interweaving modulation, and send the Stylophone Theremin echoing into orbit with a built-in delay circuit.

A fully portable Theremin

Take your sonic experiments anywhere you go. The Stylophone Theremin is compact, powered by AA batteries, has a built-in speaker & headphone connection, and its antenna can be easily collapsed for storage.

Synth and Software Review:

Top marks to Dubreq then for introducing several elements to the Stylophone Theremin design that are quite unexpected. . . the company knew how to make an analog sound circuit, but the options offered for controlling this are surprisingly novel.

The Theremin’s steadfastly 1950s industrial design comes courtesy of Axel Hartmann, who styled the Waldorf and many other electronic instruments. Its sloped panel gives space for a speaker and controls on the front, the aerial on top, and a slider controller at the front. A switch determines whether the aerial or the slider is the current controller. . . 

Switch from a sine-like to a more cutting tone and tweak the pitch as you go with the main aerial pitch knob. Then you can switch from this controller to the slider controller, which has its own independent overall pitch setting, and you can play that as sweeps or whale noises or low bass groans.

These techniques are the end of the possibilities for most Theremins, but just the beginning for the Stylophone. There are two Modulation settings that create metallic ring modulator-like effects, and you can combine the influence of the aerial and the slider controller.

A Vibrato setting gives the obvious type of variation to the sound, and finally the analog delay line with rotaries controlling delay length, mix level, and feedback. The longest delay time is very generous, and you can easily walk away from the Theremin, leaving it echoing . . .

On the whole, the Stylophone Theremin is great fun . . .