Synthesizers

Rob Puricelli talks to Ian Boddy, who has been a fixture on the electronic music scene for over 40 years, as an artist, a sound designer and a label owner.

Cherry Audio recreate Moog’s classic polysynth at a fraction of a fraction of the price of an original.

IK go pro with desktop and keyboard versions of their expanded UNO Synth.

SOS reader Ashley Pomeroy celebrates the creative power of gates.

This upgraded sequencer module maintains all the key traits that made its predecessor a hit while expanding its horizons with a second gate and CV track, three auxiliary inputs, two assignable control knobs, on‑the‑fly playability and a cavalcade of new modulation options.

This 8‑pole variable character stereo filter has an analogue core with digital control...

The Wangulator is a performance controller for Eurorack that was designed by someone with a need to get all their fingers modulating different things all at once.

The latest lavish offering from Bjooks collects some of the world’s rarest and most desirable synths between its covers.

Synth Gems 1 sets out to document, both visually and in words, some of the most incredible keyboard synthesizers ever made. Hear how it came to be...

Erica Synths’ Matrix Mixer could change the whole way you think about modular.

Analogue Solutions have taken a perfectly good synth... and made it better.

ROLI’s Equator2 is less an update than a full rebuild.

Picnic Basket contains a sequencer, Pluck physical modelling unit, a CEM3340 VCO, multimode filter, kick, reverb, ADSR envelope and random voltage generator in its 42hp-capacity Lunchbox casing.

Interesting and unique synthesis techniques seem to be plentiful of late, and the E‑RM Polygogo is no exception. It’s...

Sam Battle, also known as Look Mum No Computer, chats to Caro C about his love of electronics, '80s music and re-using discarded technology.

Behringer’s TD‑3‑MO isn’t just a TD‑3 with extra knobs: it’s a completely different instrument.

Korg’s Modwave is a wavetable powerhouse that can import Serum wavetables without conversion.

When Make Noise label an instrument an ‘experiment’, you know things are about to get interesting...

Modal’s SkulptSynth SE packs an awful lot of synth into a very small package.

A long way from their rackmounted Minimoogs, Studio Electronics’ SE‑3X is a four‑filtered, paraphonic monster.

David Bessell talks to Rob Puricelli about how he was inspired by Physical Modelling and sought to explore it further using modular synths and software.