The Korg Prologue's third oscillator just gets more and more interesting. Now someone's taken 6 synthesis models from the Mutable Instrument Plaits and ported it to the Prologue - nice!
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Polyphenom combines additive and subtractive synthesis in the hope of it adding up to something awesome. It certainly pulls off the dreaminess of additive and the power of subtractive in one neat package.
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How about a fist full of new wavetables, microtuning, double the LFOs, effects modulation, pitch bend mapping and useful initialisation options? Not bad for an update to the Novation Peak.
This is the last run of 100 Prophet 12s ever to be made. The Prophet 12 LE comes in icy arctic white and a maple body and is a superb hybrid synthesizer - get one while you can.
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Wave blending digital oscillators running 4 voices through an analog filter, VCA and envelope and a Karplus-Strong synthesis mode the Dark Arcade has a lot of cool things to play with for only $120.
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AnlogFusion is a rather tasty looking polyphonic synthesizer. It fuses two separate synthesizer engines, one analog and one digital making it less of a hybrid and more of a megasynth!
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Tanzbär 2 brings 8 channels of analog and 8 channels of samples into its advanced step sequencing eco-system. It includes a little bass synthesizer, 3 sample voices with analog filters and 10 sample ...
In a recent interview, Erik Norlander indicated there were conversations with IK about building hardware synths while developing Syntronik. The UNO synth is a direct result of that - could there be more on the ...
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It's great for those traditional instrument sounds, looping weirdness and Prophet style synthesis running through analog filters. The Prophet X isn't for everyone but if you want Kontakt in hardware then this ...
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Dave Smith Instruments are combining samples with synthesis in this tease of the new Sequential Prophet X. Will this be the best of both worlds or the mishmash of an incoherent workstation keyboard?
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The Waldorf Quantum is finally complete and NAMM gave us the fullest opportunity to try out this powerful hybrid synthesizer. Check out the sounds in this exclusive video.
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A huge leak from Korg ahead of NAMM and we gaze upon the polyphonic digital/analog hybrid synthesizer loveliness of the Prologue 8 and Prologue 16. Is the mystery solved?
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Arturia's second release is the MiniBrute 2S which is the MiniBrute 2 with the keyboard replaced with a sequencer with pads, knobs and pattern chaining. I wonder what number 3 will bring?
The march of the desktop effects unit continues with this analog/digital hybrid multi-effects unit from AVP Synthesizers. The Cosmwave FX will offer up Phaser, Flanger and up to 1 minute of delay.
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Roland take us back to the era of menu diving, painful programming and the pop music of the late 1980's with the Roland Boutique D-05 Linear Synthesizer.
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The MBS-100 is a classic looking bass synthesizer in a Soviet era style. Designed and built in Moscow does it have enough grit and character to penetrate the crowded mono-synth market? Now with video!