By definition, a synthesizer isn’t the keyboard-looking thing with knobs and dials that makes UFO sounds. ... programmable pads, 25 synth keys and on-board pitch bend and modulation wheels, ...

The Pocket Operator Modular 170 is an analog monophonic synthesizer with a built-in programmable sequencer and speaker. And living up to its name, the front panel includes plenty of room for patching.

You buy a Tulip, plug in a USB keyboard and battery if you want, and can turn it on and immediately make music on it directly. It ships with a drum machine, a Juno-6 analog style synth and a DX7 mode.

Korg is back with a refresh of its popular Opsix FM synthesizer. The Opsix mk II boasts twice the polyphony, 64 voices, and a bunch of new sound shaping options, like filters and LFOs.

Making its first public demonstrations of audio applications for field programmable analog arrays (FPAAs), Anadigm will show how its reconfigurable ICs can be used to create the industry's first ...