UDO Audio DMNO: Knock Me Down Because This Domino Is a Beauty
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UDO Audio DMNO · Source: UDO Audio
UDO Audio DMNO · Source: UDO Audio
UDO Audio DMNO · Source: UDO Audio
UDO Audio DMNO · Source: UDO Audio
UDO Audio DMNO · Source: UDO Audio
UDO Audio DMNO is an eight-voice hybrid poly with twin control panels like an Oberheim Two Voice – but this new synth is all UDO.
UDO Audio DMNO
Feeling GASsy? I know I am. UDO Audio dropped DMNO, a very exciting new synthesizer, into the laps of Machina Bristronica attendees in Bristol this weekend. And while it’s definitely an UDO Audio synth through and through, it’s also giving Oberheim in a big way – at least cosmetically.
So what is it? If you guessed by the twin sets of synthesizer controls that it was a bitimbral machine, you’re right. And, although it may resemble a Two Voice at first blush, it’s very much not. To begin with, it’s eight-voice polyphonic (that’s four voices per internal synth) with polyphony reduced to four ‘super’ voices when in UDO’s slick Binaural mode.
Uniquely, the way you access the two synth layers changes depending on the Play Mode that you engage. There are eight, ranging from single to layers to splits, a Cycle mode (like on the Korg Mono/Poly), and some enticing random modes thrown in, as well as my favorite, Series, which lets you use the DMNO 1 audio output as a complex oscillator routed into DMNO 2’s oscillator mixer.
UDO Audio DMNO: Synthesis on the Run
How about those oscillators then? Each DMNO instance gives you two ultra-high sample rate, high-resolution FPGA-powered digital oscillators. These then run through DMNO’s exciting new filters. Known as Dynamic Multi-Core Stereo filters, each of these dual analog filter sections can be reconfigured into series, parallel, or stereo with multiple filter modes for each connection type.
You also get an LFO and two envelopes, one for the VCA and the other for oscillator pitch and VCF. Remember, this is per DMNO synthesizer section.
Other features include 32-bit digital effects, including reverb, delay, chorus, and distortion, a 64-step sequencer, and a multi-mode arpeggiator with smart hold.
UDO Audio DMNO: Hardware Focus
Unusually for the company, the UDO Audio DMNO comes not in a large-format synth but one with 44 keys. This may put some people off, but the Fatar keybed with aftertouch probably won’t.
And check out that screen. Not your usual OLED, it’s an electroluminescent glass vacuum fluorescent display (VFD). I love the future retro aesthetic on that.
In terms of connectivity, the new synthesizer offers five-pin DIN MIDI in, out, and thru, stereo mix and mono outs, a configurable auxiliary out, as well as an audio in, CV and gate connectivity, expression, volume, and footswitch ports, and a two-in two-out 24-bit USB class-compliant digital audio interface. It doesn’t say, but I’m assuming that you can also get MIDI via the USB.
UDO Audio DMNO: Price and Availability
DMNO looks like another winner from UDO Audio. I love the dual synthesizer architecture and, based on demos that are starting to emerge, the sound quality is second to none.
UDO Audio DMNO comes in two colorways, white and black, and should be available in early 2026. It will retail for $3500 / £2499 / €2969.
UDO Audio products are available at Thomann*.
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