Kastle 2 FX Wizard: Nine Effects and a Patchbay in Your Pocket
The Kastle 2 FX Wizard is a pocket-sized patchable stereo multi-effects unit from Bastl Instruments. With nine effects modes, 54 patch points, and an ...
DecadeBridge Albers: Drone Synthesis With a Human Touch
The DecadeBridge Albers is a handbuilt 4-oscillator drone synth from Cheshire, England, with light-dependent resistors, individual LFOs, and a low-pas...
Embodme Erae 2: The Controller That Feels Like an Instrument
The Erae 2 from Embodme is a polyphonic MPE controller with 16,000 force sensors, a built-in MIDI looper, and 24 CV outputs - a device that blurs the ...
The Chip That Defined an Era, in Your Hands
A personal take on the Twisted Electrons AY3 MK2 – a compact 8-bit polysynth built around the AY-3-8910 chip, the very same sound generator that power...
1010music Nanobox Lemondrop: Granular Synthesis in Your Pocket
The 1010music nanobox lemondrop packs a full-blown 4-voice granular synthesizer into a device smaller than a deck of cards. With a touchscreen X/Y pad...
Loess Labs Quad Creek - Filter Pinging as a Way of Life
A semi-modular analog synthesizer that ditches traditional oscillators in favour of four resonant band-pass filters you can ping, pluck, and patch int...
Prismatic Spray II - A Bytebeat Adventure in Stereo
Distropolis Goods' Prismatic Spray II is a dual-engine stereo bytebeat synthesizer that turns mathematical equations into surprisingly musical sounds....
Void9 Mõnai: A Portable Multitimbral Synth from Iceland
Void9, a new company from Reykjavik, is building the Mõnai - a battery-powered, four-engine multitimbral synthesizer that fits in a backpack. Still in...
Oddment ODD-1 - A Granular Modulation Lab That Fits on Your Desk
The ODD-1 from Oddment Audio is a compact desktop granular synthesizer with a touchscreen, modular-style patching, dual layers, and a deeply tweakable...
Sundog Song Studio: A MIDI Laboratory for Chords and Melodies
Sundog Song Studio by FeelYourSound is a standalone MIDI composition tool that helps you build chord progressions, melodies, and basslines from scratc...
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