#synth

Cherry Audio just resurrected one of the rarest synths ever built and I have thoughts. The original Gleeman Pentaphonic was a 1981 oddity. Fewer than 70 were ever made, and one of them sat in Depeche Mode's

Rob Papen just dropped Quad-2, the successor to his 2014 Quad synth, and I have been poking at it all week. The core idea is still the same but sharpened: two oscillators built on phase distortion and

I keep a folder of beta instruments that sounded like trouble, and this week Thicket from zc devices just barged into it. It is a polyphonic node-based modular synth, and it might be the most fun I have

Tresse from Våld Labs showed up on my radar with the 1.3.0 update this week, and I had to try it. This thing is a dual layer polysynth with 39 synthesis engines crammed inside. 24 of them carry the DNA

Okay, this one is wild. Shnolk took the actual DSP program from Elektron's cult Monomachine box and got it running inside your DAW, emulated on a virtual Motorola DSP56300, JIT-compiled to native code.

Found a new toy this week and I am honestly a little blown away. CA-72 is a free synth from a small outfit called Idle Foundry, and it is a love letter to the early 70s Minimoog Model D. Not a rough

Stumbled on this one a few days ago and it has not left my drive since. Parasite from Voidscan Audio is a 3-operator FM synth with six algorithms, but forget the polite DX7 vibes. This thing is built for