Kevin Parker’s Telepathic Instruments launches Orchid Drop 3 worldwide

After two limited drops that sold out in minutes, Telepathic Instruments - co-founded by Kevin Parker of Tame Impala - has announced the first-ever global release of its breakthrough songwriting instrument, Orchid. Drop 3 lands on October 10th, 2025, at 10am local time across Australasia, the Americas and Europe/UK.

Orchid may look like a synth, with all the keys and buttons in familiar places, but to call it that would be to sell it short. It’s an ideas machine, designed to get musicians out of their heads and into the music. Plus, new features in the third instalment include exclusive pre-programmed beats by Parker, a precision filter, quantisation, loop save and recall, drum FX, user sound saving, and ten brand-new Parker-designed sounds.

To celebrate the release, actors and synth obsessives Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement star in a hilariously tongue-in-cheek, 90s-style instructional video showing fans “How to Orchid.”

Orchid Drop 3 lands on October 10th, 2025, at 10am local time across Australasia, the Americas and Europe/UK.

Originally built by Parker over a decade ago as his personal sketchpad, Orchid has since become one of the most talked-about tools in music. It’s already popped up on Kid Cudi’s “Submarine”, Don Toliver’s “Call Back”, and is in the hands of artists like Janelle Monáe, Diplo, Fred Again..., Madison Beer, Logic, Mark Hoppus, Gracie Abrams and more.

Until now, access was limited to Orchid’s first 4,000 adopters - known as The Garden - who helped shape the instrument, turning feedback into features, ideas into interfaces, and accidents into innovations in this third release.

The Telepathic ecosystem now also extends beyond hardware. With Pistil, Orchid’s synth engine is reborn as a plugin, allowing ideas to move seamlessly from instrument to DAW. Users can customise and save sounds without the hardware, sync back and forth with Orchid, and dive into a complete sound editor powered by three engines - polyphonic subtractive, FM, and vintage EP. Pistil ships bundled with Orchid ($699 USD) or as a standalone plugin ($129 USD).

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