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Bob Williams: The Analogue Systems Story
Who are the most successful British synth manufacturers of all time? Hint: they’re alive and well — and busier than ever...
Novation Mininova
Novation go back to their portable synth roots with a compact gem that reworks the Ultranova synth engine and adds a few extras...
Mutable Instruments Shruthi 1
If you’re handy with a soldering iron, buying the Shruthi 1 gets you a lot of synth for your buck...
Roland Jupiter 50
Roland’s Jupiter 80 has gained a little brother in the shape of the Jupiter 50. Does this slimmed-down synth offer the same Supernatural sound?
Sonic Academy ANA
Don’t let its low price fool you: Sonic Academy’s debut synth has a lot going for it...
Wave Alchemy Pro II
Wave Alchemy’s Pro II aims to fill the curious, Pro One-shaped hole in the soft-synth market.
Tascam iU2 • Reactable Mobile
We check out the Tascam iU2 audio interface, and sneak a peak at Reactable's Mobile tactile synth for iOS and Android.
Arturia Oberheim SEM V
Tom Oberheim’s classic two-voice synth gets the Arturia treatment in the form of the SEM V.
Izotope Iris
Izotope’s Iris offers a new take on sound design via its innovative sample resynthesis engine.
Rob Papen Blade
Is Rob Papen’s Blade the cutting edge of additive synthesis?
John Bowen Synth Design Solaris
Years in the making, John Bowen’s Solaris is finally with us. So is this hugely ambitious synthesizer everything we hoped it would be?
Analogue Solutions Leipzig S
Analogue Solutions make a bid for your cash with a retro-styled synth offering big, fat Moog-style sounds and a built-in sequencer. Could this be their best synth yet?
Moog Minitaur
The Minitaur may look like a simple beast, but there’s much more to Moog’s most affordable synth than meets the eye...
GForce ImpOSCar 2
GForce’s acclaimed OSCar emulator gets a major update — and a deluxe control surface, in the shape of the Touch Digital IMP2C.
Vermona Perfourmer 2
Vermona have beefed up their four-voice synth and the result is an analogue monster with the emphasis firmly on performance.
Arturia MiniBrute
Arturia have broken away from their soft-synth roots with the MiniBrute, a 100 percent analogue monosynth. We put it to the test in our world-exclusive review.
Keyboard Synthesizers
Self-contained keyboard synths have an immediacy that is seldom matched by synth modules or software instruments. There's a great variety of them available at the moment, but how do you know which one is right for you? Here’s a selection of the models we've looked at over the last couple of years, with links to the SOS reviews, to help you decide.
XILS Lab Synthix
XILS Lab continue to trawl the depths of obscure synth history, this time with an emulation of that rarest of beasts, the Elka Synthex.
Arturia Analog Experience
The latest addition to Arturia’s Analog Experience series takes their hybrid software/hardware synth concept even further.