Synthesizers

Disrupter is an experimental, performance‑driven, 303‑style sequencer with innovative randomisation features that you can still control when needed.

Roland’s SH‑4d is an ambitious amalgam of synth and sequencer in a battery‑powered box.

The MiniFreak V is every bit as good as its hardware counterpart.

Arturia’s colourful soft synth goes from strength to strength.

Expressive E’s Osmose is a synthesizer like no other.

Cnōc and Cruïnn promise to bring something new to your modular system with their own distinct brands of Instruō ingenuity.

Klevgrand introduce a new take on wavetable synthesis.

Vector Wave is an extraordinarily playful multi‑levelled cluster oscillator with multiple modes, nuances, vector synthesis and FM algorithms.

Can Dreamtonics really deliver a session singer in software?

S‑CAT’s bespoke Bass‑Synth does exactly what it says on the tin...

The follow‑up to Pamela’s Workout sets the gold standard for clock division and rhythmic trigger generation all over again.

Slice records audio and plays it back as a loop. Being clockable means that in‑time stutter, ratchet and glitch effects are yours to command.

Californian start‑up Groove Synthesis haven’t just recreated the PPG Wave, they’ve made it even better.

Bastl’s Softpop SP2 reins in the chaos but is still a far from conventional synth.

Cherry Audio recreate that rarest of beasts, the Elka Synthex.

Now in its third decade, MetaSynth is still a synthesizer like no other, and its companion sequencer Xx follows the same path...

Comprised of an 18dB/octave three‑pole multi‑mode filter, a VCA, two different West Coast‑style wavefolders and a rectifier, at its mildest end the FIL4 very much does what it says on the tin: it sculpts timbre.

1010music’s diminutive Nanobox range has got it where it counts.

The LXR‑2 is a six-voice, 28HP module with the same sound engine as the LXR‑02...

Dawesome’s Novum is a granular synthesizer with a multi‑layered approach to sound design.

They may seem like an unromantic part of modular, but having the right case can make all the difference to your system.