Synthesizers

The user interface has always been a barrier to FM synthesis. Can Fors’ elegant approach make it more accessible?

Alchemy’s granular engine is a sonic playground with infinite possibilities!

Mark J.T. Griffin’s unofficial biography stems from a long‑held interest in and passion for Vangelis’ work.

SED‑CSM, from Berlin’s Rides In The Storm, is a full analogue synth voice, with its own mixer, packed into a big‑but‑really‑very‑small 36HP.

SuperKar+ can produce up to 32 voices and has a bi‑timbral split to offer a Chord voice and a separate polyphonic Solo voice all within the one 12HP module.

Founder of Rides In The Storm, Berlin‑based Uwe George Giegler is a designer whose precocity is matched only by his talent at circuit building.

The SOS team pick their highlights from hardware and software launches from 2025.

Vicky Clarke discusses her experimental approach to sound, from field recording and neural synthesis to AI technologies and spatial audio.

Instruo’s first foray into standalone synthesizers is both ambitious and original.

The Boundary Layer is a module whose design actually harks back to a much more classic synth topology. How will Schlappi fare in the heritage game?

The humble kick drum has come a long way and perhaps we’ve reached the peak with the Ohmforce Bohm “frontier of kick synthesis” system.

This diminutive module combines an envelope with a VCA to accept audio signals and render them, well, percussive.

While it’s often most natural in a patch to assign one control signal per destination, there is enormous creative scope in sending a single voltage source to several destinations simultaneously!