Synthesizers

Don’t be misled by the colourful panel and eccentric name — the Moog Grandmother is a serious and capable synthesizer.

Thanks to Korg, it’s once again possible to walk into a shop and buy a brand-new, full-size ARP Odyssey.

In a move that may appeal to fans of the movie Inception, the 1010music Toolbox takes a modular approach to your modular’s modulation...

Rob Papen’s latest synth keeps things simple with single-page operation, but doesn’t compromise on sound.

Analogue Solutions’ new semi-modular synth is as flexible as it is fun.

The Model D app is based upon the 2016 Minimoog Model D — the one with the dedicated LFO and additional modulation routings — rather than the original Minimoog...

Elektron have treated three of their flagship instruments to a major redesign. We see what’s new...

Erica’s new Graphic VCO is a digital wavetable oscillator on which you can draw and save your own waveforms and wavetables....

A collaboration with a renowned composer and electronic music pioneer launches Spitfire Audio into outer space.

If good things really do come in small packages, this USB stick-based analogue synth ought to be a winner.

This synth app is aimed at drum synthesis and, if the App Store blurb is to be believed, also features a dollop of artificial intelligence.

Moog’s Drummer From Another Mother cocks an inventive snook at conventional percussion synthesis.

Phosphor 2 is Audio Damages' first of their desktop virtual instruments to be ported to iOS, bringing with it exactly the same features as the desktop version.

Kauldron is most certainly up there in terms of analogue sonics and with its combination of features and competitive pricing, should prove attractive to many.

Classic low-pass gates are probably best associated with the Buchla modulars. However, Rabid Elephant decided against the vactrols, aiming to produce something faster, more accurate, durable and natural-sounding.

Plonk uses AAS physical modelling to generate many voices of a typical drum machine, but it’s equally suited to creating strikes and hits with no real-world equivalent...

Roland continue to mine their considerable legacy with another Boutique module, this time based on the simple but much-loved SH-101.

Korg’s new “flagship analogue synthesizer” actually incorporates plenty of digital technology — and to great effect!

Formant Filter offers morphing between three different vowel sounds and via parallel band-pass filters, it delivers convincing vocal tones...

Rainmaker consists of a stereo 16-tap spectral delay paired with a 64-tap comb resonator, the latter sporting external triggering options that turn it into a (single-voice) Karplus-Strong synthesizer.

The original Polivoks is rare, iconic, nasty and fabulous in equal measure. So how does a modern-day reincarnation compare with the classic?