Tom Horn SinTH2: the hand-built Polish polysynth with five oscillators and 60 voices
Five oscillators, 60 voices, 3 GB of waveforms and a 120-knob front panel: Tom Horn's SinTH2 carries the Roland JD-800 spirit into…
Music
Synido TempoKEY K32 Play: the 32-key controller that makes music with no computer attached ($149)
The TempoKEY K32 Play tucks a sound module, a battery and a speaker into a compact MIDI controller. The pitch: make music…
Jamstik Loon: a multi-engine soft synth built for MIDI guitar and expressive keys
Jamstik has launched Loon, a software instrument that stacks three fully independent sound layers — virtual analog, four-operator FM, multisamples and filters…
reFX Rippler: the acclaimed free physical modeling synth goes commercial, gains wavefolders and filters
reFX, the company behind Nexus, is stepping into synthesis for the first time with Rippler, a physical modeling synthesizer. It's the commercial…
Like the NI Super*Saw: 8 synths for a real wall of saws (free and paid)
Native Instruments just dropped a synth dedicated to the supersaw. Time to sort the field: eight plugins — two free, six paid…
Eventide H9 Harmonizer Gen 2: the full H90 engine in the cult pedal, at $599
Eventide had left its H9 untouched for a long time. The brand is correcting that with the H9 Harmonizer Gen 2, a…
Polyphonic tuning patent: Behringer’s parent company loses its case against Boss
Empower Tribe, owner of Behringer and TC Electronic, tried to enforce a patent on polyphonic tuning. A US judge dismissed its case…
Native Instruments Super*Saw: A. G. Cook’s signature supersaw becomes its own synth for $99
Native Instruments has turned A. G. Cook's signature sound — the man behind Charli xcx, Caroline Polachek and Oklou — into a…
Analogue Solutions Filtopia: the analogue monosynth built around five parallel filters (£1,799)
Analogue Solutions unveils the Filtopia, a monophonic analogue synthesiser that flips the usual logic on its head: instead of a single filter,…
Analog Sweden SWEN2: the Swedish boutique monosynth built for modulation, out now for around $699
Analog Sweden is finally shipping the SWEN2, a desktop analog monosynth that carries the DNA of its 1996 swENIGISER forward. A 12-mode…