News & guides for hardware synth lovers.
The OXI E16 isn’t just another MIDI controller—it’s a framework for building parameter relationships. With sophisticated grouping, snapshot morphing, and 1,344 controls, it promises depth that reveals itself over time.
Elektron’s Tonverk represents something fundamentally different: a complete philosophical reimagining of what a performance sampler can be when polyphony, multisampling, and elaborate routing converge in a single instrument.
The Mimetic Digitwolis doesn’t just improve upon the classic Mimetic Digitalis from Noise Engineering; it reimagines what a 10HP sequencer can be when every input becomes configurable, every output becomes flexible, and every parameter becomes a gateway to new creative territories.
The S2 continues the Organelle’s mission of democratizing computer music creation through Pure Data programming, but with the computational headroom to tackle patches that would have strained its predecessor.
The Lost + Found arrives as the second pedal in Chase Bliss’s Small Batch Bliss collection—a made-to-order line that abandons artificial scarcity for genuine accessibility.
The 2HP Module That Brings the Outside World Inside Most Eurorack microphone modules are contact mics designed for capturing vibrations from solid objects. But Intellijel’s MEMS Mic takes a different approach—it uses the same omnidirectional MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) microphone found in smartphones and cameras, delivering flat frequency response from 6Hz to 20kHz in just 2HP … Read more
The Organic Synthesizer That Bridges Melody and Noise Gets Smarter Bastl Instruments’ Softpop SP2 has always occupied a unique position in the synthesizer ecosystem—an experimental semi-modular instrument that treats the boundary between musical melody and organized noise as a creative playground rather than a technical limitation. But experimental doesn’t have to mean difficult, and the … Read more