The Phonicbloom Siluria – a boutique drone synth with a built-in FM radio, is now available to pre-order.
The Phonicbloom Siluria is polyphonic, multi-timbral synthesizer with effects that features a sensitive capacitive touch keyboard.
Features:
- Fully controllable via MIDI
- Can be used as a MIDI controller
- External signal can be processed by effects, or used as a modulation source. There are three audio input streams to choose from: FM radio, line-in and WAV files imported through the SD card.
- USB-C supply port for power and data transfer
- Six 3.5mm Jack connectors: audio In & Out, MIDI In & Out, a separate output from the FM Radio (unprocessed signal), and an external antenna connector. There is a built-in half wavelength antenna, but if it’s not enough, you can add a longer one.
- OLED display for navigating settings
- 1GHz Dual-core RISC-V processor, with 512MB memory, and a Hi-Fi audio codec running at 48,000Hz sampling rate.
- 12-tone capacitive keyboard
Siluria Synthesizer Demo:
Pricing and Availability:
The Phonicbloom Siluria is available to pre-order for €599, with shipping expected in 1-3 months.
An FM radio receiver built into a synthesizer seems like nothing more than an invitation to plagiarize. Hearing something on the radio does not mean it is in the public domain.
Alright grandpa, let’s get you to bed.
That’s not very nice.
Ageism is bigotry by the uninitiated. Your meme is the tired thing.
It’s a fair point, if someone was piping radio through fx, uploading that content and getting some clicks. Don’t know if that kind of use would get flagged or not.
I think the OP-1 has an FM radio as an input source.
What is often under-appreciated about FM, is that with the right FM transmitter, you can have zero latency wireless audio. I’ve bought a few of these stereo FM transmitter modules from a popular online retailer. The brand is Weewooday. They have a mic, line-in, multiple power options, and can even act as a USB audio output device (broadcast to FM). And they are tiny.
Transmitting is OK, becoming one’s own extremely local radio station. Kawai made a toy keyboard shaped like a lemon that has an FM transmitter, so it can use a radio in the same room as an amplifier. I am always on the lookout for one. In twenty years I have only seen three on the web, they are that rare.
Have you seen the RCA voicecaster 1010 ?
No. I will go looking. Thanks.
Dude there is so much amazing noise and broken audio artifacts between stations! Have you never played with a radio slowly scanning and listening to the sounds in between the stations and faint audio from stations with interference and too far away? it can be quite fun and entertaining, such a great source for all sorts of staticy weird sounds, listening to commercial radio was the furthest thing from my mind in regards to this and other modules and synths with radio receivers built in
It’s a drone synth, which to my understanding means that the incoming FM signal is stretched and manipulated to the point where its source is unrecognizable. It sounds like a really cool idea, inviting unpredictable random textures into the resulting sound.
Radioactivity is in the air for you me.
Sold out on website and no more orders being taken. What a shame.
As of today, they are taking pre-orders with 1–3 months until shipping.
These guitar knobs of a gibson guitar are looking strange. But btw inserting my old Radio in my modular doesnt need any expensive Modul. Just use a cheapo analog radio and get random noise, best is LW, MW and KW