Since selling out two limited-release drops in minutes, Telepathic Instruments is set to launch the Orchid Drop 3 globally on 10 October 2025 at 10am in Australasia, Americas, and Europe/UK.
Quietly shaping the sound and songwriting of musicians around the world, Orchid has already become one of the most talked-about new instruments in music technology, used by artists like Janelle Monáe, Diplo, Ryan Tedder (from OneRepublic), Madison Beer, and Gracie Abrams.
Created by Kevin Parker aka Tame Impala more than a decade ago as a personal songwriting tool, Orchid has since grown into something much larger.
While Orchid might look like a synth, with a keyboard and some buttons, it is also an ideas machine designed to help musicians get out of their head and into the music. Built directly on feedback from its first 4,000 adopters, collectively known as The Garden community, Orchid Drop 3 introduces a host of new features that expand its creative range.
This includes exclusive pre-programmed beats by Kevin Parker, a dedicated cutoff frequency filter for shaping sound precisely, quantisation to keep loops locked on time, new rhythmic controls, 10 new sounds designed by Kevin Parker, as well as the ability to modify and save your own user sounds, and capture spontaneous ideas and bring them back instantly with loop save + recall.
Also available together with the Orchid is the original synth engine, Pistil, that Kevin used to design the Orchid’s 60 onboard sounds, which is now available as a plugin giving you access to the Telepathic instruments’ universe of sounds, the ability to create, customise and save sounds without an Orchid, and a two-way sync with Orchid that allows you to take sounds on-the-go and get ideas directly into your DAW.
To celebrate the launch, Telepathic Instruments has produced an instructional video starring comedians Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement that channels the eccentricity of 1990s synth DVDs, serving as an Orchid tutorial and comedy sketch that is a playful love letter to chords, synthesis and the joy of making music.
