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Sonicware Deconstruct Minimal is a hardware groovebox designed for ‘hypnotic minimal grooves’
The battery-powered beat machine features sampled drums, a loop player and 303-inspired bass synth
“An inspiring ideas machine that trades technical theory for intuitive workflow”: Telepathic Instruments Orchid ORC-1 review
Is Telepathic Instruments Orchid, a chord-friendly portable synth, the perfect tool for studio inspiration and song-writing on the go?
This one-button synth could be the wildest idea to come out of Superbooth 2026
With no keys, no knobs, no faders and no display, Cyma Forma's RND randomly generates a new idea with each button-press – its creators call it an "inspiration machine"
Soma set to unveil Enigma - a synth that responds to metal objects - at this year’s Superbooth
Enigma looks set to open up whole new avenues of sound design - and finally give a purpose for all those stacks of old coins in your kitchen drawers…
“An ‘instrument’ rather than a ‘synth’”: Ziggy is a desktop Buchla available for (just) under $1000
Complex oscillators and audio-rate modulation meets digital mod routing and effects in Buchla’s surprisingly approachable new monosynth
"It will always be my favourite”: Howard Jones takes you on a tour of the synth he’s owned since 1983
“The way it spits out those notes is incredible,” he says. “The attack… I just miss that on modern keyboards”
The ultimate synth shoot-out 2026: Hardware classics vs. their software successors - but can you really tell which is which?
Is there really any need to fork out for a hardware synth these days? We place a trio of hardware classics up against some immaculate software doppelgängers
How to emulate the sound of Gary Numan’s synth-pop classic Cars
We lift the bonnet on a foundational piece of synth genius, and demonstrate how you can achieve its distinctive sound yourself in your DAW
