The Erica Synths Steampipe Physical Modelling Synthesizer is now Available!

flat 🎙️ · 4th December 2024

Erica Synths Steampipe is available now for 990€ + VAT + shipping and starts shipping on December 17, 2024.

Love the Black Adder bit at 0:53

https://synthanatomy.com/2024/12/sup...gkUsOQS25_-XFA

The Erica Synths Steampipe Physical Modelling Synthesizer is now Available!

marcgood · 4th December 2024

Very interesting.

Granular Thorax · 4th December 2024

It looks cool, and could be interesting, but after my experience with the LXR-02, I find it difficult to get excited about anything from Erica. Still hoping on a stable firmware on my drum synth, but it's been 2 years since 1.6, and Erica has since moved on to other things. Hopefully they don't abandon this one with a buggy OS that drops sounds and changes routings at random.

vitocorleone123 · 4th December 2024

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Originally Posted by Granular Thorax ➡️

It looks cool, and could be interesting, but after my experience with the LXR-02, I find it difficult to get excited about anything from Erica. Still hoping on a stable firmware on my drum synth, but it's been 2 years since 1.6, and Erica has since moved on to other things. Hopefully they don't abandon this one with a buggy OS that drops sounds and changes routings at random.

Never had that issue w/my LXR-02 (I sold it awhile back due to disuse), and my Acidbox III has been going strong for quite a few years now.

tjontheroad · 5th December 2024

This is interesting to me. Will keep on my radar.

papadelicate · 5th December 2024

No issues with LXR 02 here about 4 yrs in

knippy · 5th December 2024

This is really cool! Taming the feedback loop and preventing huge ear-blasting jumps in volume, while keeping it fun and usable.. nicely done.

tjontheroad · 6th December 2024

I preordered. Or at least put my name on the order list. The hands on programming is very unique for physical modeling. It sounds very interesting.

Caesar Pie · 6th December 2024

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Originally Posted by Granular Thorax ➡️

It looks cool, and could be interesting, but after my experience with the LXR-02, I find it difficult to get excited about anything from Erica. Still hoping on a stable firmware on my drum synth, but it's been 2 years since 1.6, and Erica has since moved on to other things. Hopefully they don't abandon this one with a buggy OS that drops sounds and changes routings at random.

Don't want to get too OT here but I believe the issue with the LXR-02 firmware is that the original LXR creator remains the real brains of this machine.

As for the Steampipe, I'd love to hear it pushed much harder. Seems to have the potential for massively dark and dirty sounds. Can't get excited about bells and flutes.

eighteenisnine · 6th December 2024

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Originally Posted by Caesar Pie ➡️

As for the Steampipe, I'd love to hear it pushed much harder. Seems to have the potential for massively dark and dirty sounds. Can't get excited about bells and flutes.

Exactly, this looks like Prophet 12 / Evolver tuned feedback taken to completely different levels!

Ned Bouhalassa · 6th December 2024

The title of this thread is seriously long!

Much GAS for this beauty.

gentleclockdivid · 6th December 2024

It's in collab with the same developer (112 db , martijn Zwartjes ) who did a lot of reaktor ensembles , steampipe being one of them
The reaktor ensemble is essentially a karplus strong ( tuned delay line )
I wonder how much they will overlap

marcgood · 6th December 2024

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Originally Posted by tjontheroad ➡️

I preordered. Or at least put my name on the order list. The hands on programming is very unique for physical modeling. It sounds very interesting.

WOW.

That's some good stuff.

But I'm keeping my GAS in check, for now...

momomel · 6th December 2024

This kind of sound really feels so European. I personally don’t need a synth that only produces these kinds of darkish sounds, and I still prefer Yamaha, but it seems like it would be great for people making dark music.

apessino · 6th December 2024

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Originally Posted by tjontheroad ➡️

I preordered. Or at least put my name on the order list. The hands on programming is very unique for physical modeling. It sounds very interesting.

Ordered one too - did you order direct or from a US distributor?

in the past I got most of my Erica gear direct , but the last few were such a pain I learned my lesson. The risk of immigration issues is just too high. I am going with Sweetwater this time.

pr0gr4m · 6th December 2024

I'm not interested in owning one. But I totally dig this thing...totally.
It's like reverb developers decided to get into the synthesizer game.

gentleclockdivid · 6th December 2024

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Originally Posted by pr0gr4m ➡️

I'm not interested in owning one. But I totally dig this thing...totally.
It's like reverb developers decided to get into the synthesizer game.

What are you talking about ?
Martijn Zwartjes Steampipe dates back to 2004
From his Linked page

tjontheroad · 6th December 2024

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Originally Posted by apessino ➡️

Ordered one too - did you order direct or from a US distributor?

in the past I got most of my Erica gear direct , but the last few were such a pain I learned my lesson. The risk of immigration issues is just too high. I am going with Sweetwater this time.

I ordered from Sweetwater because no money is paid until they ship.

tjontheroad · 7th December 2024

Manual is here;

https://www.ericasynths.lv/media/Ste...b_03122024.pdf

pr0gr4m · 9th December 2024

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Originally Posted by gentleclockdivid ➡️

What are you talking about ?
Martijn Zwartjes Steampipe dates back to 2004
From his Linked page

Not everyone knows everything. It's ok.

your milkshake · 10th December 2024

this thing sounds awesome

donato · 11th December 2024

Seems interesting, but hard for me to get excited when 1/4 of the panel is dedicated to digital effects. Are there really no other sound shaping knobs there that would be more useful?

arrowsmith · 11th December 2024

Very excited about this one!

Yes it does seem limited in some ways but I don’t have any other boards I’m the same realm

empirix · 11th December 2024

no interest whatsoever

Stu Peter · 25th December 2024

OK I joined the club. Really wanted a physical modeling hardware poly to experiment with, and the price on this is reasonable given the usual build quality of Erica's hardware. Got it for 1322 CAD + tax from moog audio, which is the best price I've seen for it. They won't get it till end of January so will be a late Christmas present to myself .

apessino · 25th December 2024

Mine is supposed to ship tomorrow! 😎

Subverter · 26th December 2024

Well at least people that were hoping for the Aodyo Omega have a viable alternative now.

The UI reminds me of Triangle 2, a freeware VST from a few years back.

tjontheroad · 16th January 2025

SW is shipping my Steampipe out. Hold my calls next week.

Stryker Moonfall · 16th January 2025

Pretty much anything I've heard from them sounds ace and also look beautiful. Their gear definitely has character.

abruzzi · 17th January 2025

I'm having fun with mine, but it is very unpredictable. I posted this in the new gear thread but I had dialed up a nice sound then when adjusting the generator gain, the nice pitched sound collapsed into a "rasberry"*, and the entire range sounded like that rasberry, until I adjusted the gain very slowly to find that 1/2 a degree of arc that turned it into a pitched sound.

* rasberry is the sound you make when playing a trumpet without the trumpet.

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