Stylophone DS-2: A Drone Box That Fits in a Eurorack
The Stylophone DS-2 is a fully analog drone synthesizer with two 3340 oscillators, a 3320 filter, 14 LFO waveforms, delay and reverb, and twelve patch...
Behringer D Mini: A Minimoog Sound That Fits in Your Pocket
Behringer has announced the D Mini, a tiny analog synthesizer that borrows the look and the sound of the 1970s Minimoog. It packs three oscillators, a...
Tembo Turns Beat-Making Into a Board Game
Musical Beings made a wooden drum machine where you build beats by placing little magnets on a grid. It looks like a toy, but it plays like a real ins...
Gotharman Zaturn Zero: A Modular System Folded Into a Box
The Gotharman Zaturn Zero is a redesigned hybrid synthesizer and groovebox from Denmark. It packs a 76-module patchable engine, a choice of analog fil...
History
Dubreq Stylophone S-1: The Pocket Synth That Never Quite Went Away
The story of the Dubreq Stylophone, from a repaired toy piano in 1967 to the modern S-1. A look at how a tiny stylus-played synth charmed David Bowie ...
Teenage Engineering EP-136 K.O. Sidekick: A Pocket Mixer That Snaps Onto Your Sampler
Teenage Engineering has released the EP-136 K.O. Sidekick, a slim two-channel stereo mixer that doubles as an effects box, sequencer, and USB audio in...
Terraphones Nymira: A Synth Built Around the Circle of Fifths
The Terraphones Nymira is a standalone synthesizer that maps the circle of fifths onto a physical interface. With three sound engines, a walnut body t...
The Drumboy Grows Up - and It Looks Like a Proper Groovebox Now
Randomwaves takes their tiny open-source drum machine, gives it tactile buttons, eight rotary knobs, a 5.3-inch screen and a battery, and turns it int...
Neutral Labs Queen Elmyra - An 8-Voice Drone Synth With Real Tubes and 96 Patch Points
Neutral Labs has taken its small Elmyra 2 drone synth and scaled it up into a desktop instrument with eight voices, up to 24 wavetable oscillators, an...
Bastl Kalimba: A Hybrid Thumb Piano with FM and Physical Modelling Inside
Bastl Instruments has unveiled the Kalimba, a fully portable hybrid instrument with a built-in speaker, USB-C rechargeable battery, and 12 touch- and ...
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Plinky 12: One Device, Three Touch Instruments
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