Synthesizers

Korg bring West Coast modular synthesis to the masses with their most ambitious Volca yet.

Make Noise proudly promote the René as "the world's only 3D Cartesian Music Sequencer". I had no idea either, but it's been...

Pittsburgh's desktop semi-modular has its eye set firmly on the experimental.

If you're Eurorack curious but short on space or cash — or simply allergic to 3.5mm patch cables — Softube's Modular might be for you.

IK Multimedia's UNO packs a surprisingly capable analogue monosynth into an attractively priced and eminently portable box.

Yamaha's seriously capable MODX is a Montage for the masses.

Thankfully Bassline is not a TB‑303 clone: its acidic pedigree is very much its own.

It's hard to imagine any modular system not benefiting from a dash of randomness; Marbles offers three streams of triggers/gates and four voltages...

Audio Damage’s latest plug-in instrument gives an accessible but versatile take on granular synthesis.

Latvian Erica Synths have partnered up with French company e-licktronic to develop drum modules with a distinctly Japanese flavour.

The Sonicsmith Squaver P1+ is not your ordinary semi-modular synth...

The Entity PS's 100-percent analogue circuitry is capable of producing a huge range of percussive effects including, but not limited to: snares, claps, toms, rim shots, hats, synth percussions, zaps and blips, bass and lead sounds and even new flavours of kick-drum sounds.

You don’t have to play synths or ‘real’ instruments to make music: embrace the experimental, and you could use almost anything...

The Sequential Prophet X combines analogue and sample-based synthesis in one enormously ambitious and flexible instrument.

Waverazor offers an aggressive take on waveshaping synthesis and some seriously deep editing.

The Treadstone packs a lot of analogue synth into a very small box.