Synthesizers

Everything you need to know to get your DAW talking to your modular system via your audio interface.

Arturia's latest instrument is a software recreation of Oberheim's pinstriped polysynth.

The NiftyBundle offers an extremely affordable gateway into the world of modular synthesis.

Continua is a three-oscillator, twin-filter analogue-style synthesizer plug‑in for Mac, Windows and iOS, and there's even an experimental Linux build too.

Xaoc's Odessa aims to bring additive synthesis to the Eurorack world.

The Fusion Series is all about valves. It's Erica's premium offering of Eurorack modules and is dripping with extreme saturation and deep gooey darkness.

Any synth can be coaxed into producing vintage-sounding patches...

XILS Lab have recreated a classic Roland string synth, and made a few improvements to boot.

The Tetrapad and its expander, the Tête, offer a wealth of functions based around four touch- and pressure-sensitive...

The Jupiter name comes loaded with expectation. Can Roland hit their own high standards?

Moog love to push boundaries, and the Subharmonicon may be their most unusual synth yet.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. From a damaged, poorly-maintained Soviet-era monosynth that suffers from crackles, frequency drift and other problems, RR saw an opportunity to create an unusual polysynth...

Kyra's FPGA-based synth engine is technologically innovative, but what's it like as an instrument?

The original Chord module, reviewed in SOS February 2017 by Jyoti Mishra, offered an excellent way to get polyphony and, more...

This Voltage Controlled MIDI Controller takes all your Eurorack–based manipulations and maps them to the parameters of any MIDI device.

The Preset offers a tantalising promise: presets in your modular, allowing you to save and recall up to nine control voltages in up to 1024 'presets'.