Swedish designer Love Hultén is known for producing weird and wonderful instruments, often incorporating existing hardware into custom-designed, one-off constructions that regularly blow us away with their unique and highly creative aesthetic.
Hultén surprised us all this week with the announcement that he'll be partnering with Analog Sweden and Albert Nyström on the development of a new instrument that'll be going into mass production; prototypes for the instrument were on display at Superbooth last weekend.
Crum2 is an update to Nyström's Crum Drum, a generative drum synthesizer that makes use of FM synthesis. Hultén hasn't given much away in his Instagram announcement, but information provided on Analog Sweden's website reveals that Crum2 will follow the same thread while significantly expanding the capabilities of its predecessor.
Crum2 offers you four channels that can be used to trigger six internal sound engines that cover both percussive and melodic bases. Equipped with a standard step sequencer, the drum machine is also capable of live recording and probabilistic beat generation. You'll find master reverb, delay and overdrive effects too. The pictures on Hultén's Instagram show the synth alongside a hexagonal drum pad controller.
No word yet on release date or pricing - when we know more, so will you.
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