Synthesizers

Dreamtonics take their session singer in software to the next level.

Updated for a new generation, can the microKORG2 live up to the huge success of its predecessor?

The Archaea Exchange falls into what is possibly the author's favourite category of modules: essentially very simple but with massive scope.

The Lublin 1957 from XAOC Devices is a two‑channel pingable VCA module with three ping responses and a gain limiting circuit to prevent peaking or distortion.

One of the central figures behind XAOC Devices' success is Maciek Bartkowiak, a veritable heavyweight in electronic instrument design and a charming fellow to boot.

The unsettlingly named Seventh Summoner is a really simple sequencer, and as with the Arp Of Darkness, it does just enough to make itself fabulously useful.

The Anchoress joins Caro C to discuss her preferred recording methods, her obsession with vintage synthesizers, the decision to invest in her own studio and receiving three consecutive MPG Award nominations.

Acustica’s soft synth debut is a recreation of everyone’s favourite ’80s polysynth.

Pigments 6 is bigger, better and free to existing users!

The DitDit takes text as its stimulus and spits out Morse code, which makes for ideal translation into a language of triggers and gates...

Erica’s Perkons HD‑01 is one of the most inventive drum machines of recent years, and the Perkons Voice is a single Perkons’ synth voice in Eurorack form.

Refreshingly shrewd and not a little iconoclastic, Ross Fish founded Møffenzeef Mødular with all the creativity and risk you might expect, given the modules in the Møffenzeef range.

If any synthesizer can be considered to be greater than the sum of its parts, it’s Tom Oberheim’s enduring classic, the Two Voice.