Plinky 12: One Device, Three Touch Instruments
Plinky 12 is a collaborative touch synthesizer from Alex Evans, Making Sound Machines, and Toadstool Tech. Its standout feature is a set of three swap...
Gene Synths CHROMAGENE: Two Halves, One Lovely Mess
The CHROMAGENE by Gene Synths is a hand-made all-analog polyphonic synthesizer built around a split architecture - eight conventional voices on one si...
Neutral Labs Scrooge: Five Voices That Would Rather Sound Broken
The Neutral Labs Scrooge is a sequenced malfunction generator - a five-voice analog instrument whose passive voice design produces glitchy crackles, u...
Leploop: The Groovebox That Forgets on Purpose
The Leploop is a handmade Italian analog groovebox that embraces unpredictability as a core feature. Its capacitor-based sequencer slowly drifts and d...
Synthux Touch 2: a Tiny Synth That Shapeshifts
The Touch 2 by Synthux Academy is a compact touch-sensitive synthesizer built on the Daisy Seed microcontroller. What makes it genuinely interesting i...
Ableton Finally Made Hardware, and It's Actually Good
Ableton - the company everyone associates with a laptop and a DAW - has made a standalone portable groovebox. And it's a surprisingly honest, well-tho...
Erica Synths EDU DIY Labor: A Breadboard Playground for Eurorack Experimenters
The EDU DIY Labor is a circuit design playground from Erica Synths that puts a breadboard, a built-in power supply, and a set of ready-made audio buil...
Haken Audio ContinuuMini: Touch the Sound
The Haken Audio ContinuuMini is a portable MPE synthesizer built around an unusually sensitive playing surface. It packs the full EaganMatrix sound en...
Cosmolab: Build Your Own Instrument, the Proper Way
Faselunare's Cosmolab is a modular open-source DSP kit built around the Daisy Seed. It lets you prototype synthesizers, effects, and MIDI controllers ...
Manifold Research Centre Antilope
The Antilope from Polish studio Manifold Research Centre is a pseudo drum machine built around dual pingable resonant filters, a Sunn O))) Beta Bass-i...
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