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“A happy bending of the rules of nature”: Elektron’s latest Syntakt update adds sample synthesis and new sequencing tools to the hybrid drum synth

Given that it’s been on the market since 2022, you’d be forgiven for assuming that we’d seen all that Syntakt has to offer. But Elektron – a company with a history of releasing lifespan-extending ...
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Superbooth 24: Tracker+ updates Polyend's flagship groovebox with 4 new synth engines, stereo sampling, an expanded sequencer and more

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. SUPERBOOTH 2024: We were big fans of Polyend’s Tracker when it arrived in 2020. Although it draws ...
Hackaday

ChipKIT Sketch: Mini Polyphonic Sampling Synth

In our hands-on review of the Digilent chipKIT Uno32, we posed the question of what the lasting appeal might be for a 32-bit Arduino work-alike. We felt it needed some novel applications exploiting ...
Hackaday

Dot Matrix Synth

This project initially started as an attempt to build a Mellotron, a tape based sampling synth. Paul Slocum recorded samples using a tape recorder and then taped the segments to the printer’s feed ...
Spin

Hear Mortar & Pestle’s Pinball-Sampling Synth-Pop Scorcher ‘U.V.’

Mortar & Pestle’s “U.V.” is all radiant synths and glossy production, with pinball sounds giving way to singer Janaysa Lambert singing buoyantly about “sunshine.” But the Oakland trio is born out of ...