Rorschach: When Your Synth Starts Drawing
The Rorschach from Lumatic Visual Devices is a compact analog-style video synthesizer that turns audio signals, gates, and CV into shifting black and ...
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 ...
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