Awesome Synthesizer

A special limited edition of Teenage Engineering’s awesome little Pocket Operator PO-35 Speak sampler and beatmaker, featuring a built-in mic, eight voice characters created by Justin Roiland himself, and Rick and Morty animations. Sadly, it looks like it’s already sold out, so it’s off to eBay for us.

Keyboardist Seth Everman decided to test out a bunch of the different sound modes on his Yamaha synth again, this time using Toto’s 1982 hit Africa as his test music. The pizzicato one sounded too much like Enya to us, and nearly put us into a sleep trance.

Not only is the new Seaboard Block the most portable and affordable version of Roli’s revolutionary keyboard, it can also be used with the Lightpad Blocks or another Seaboard Block. It comes with hundreds of sounds and can also be used with DAWs.

A crazy cool modular single-voice analog synthesizer that’ll have you cranking out fat beats, crunchy noises, and amazing electronic sounds for your musical creations. It works completely standalone, or can be controlled by studio apps, sequencers, or keyboards via MIDI.

A product demo reel for a crazy 1980’s musical instrument which combined a guitar with a MIDI synthesizer controller, which was basically the exact opposite of the Keytar. Why this thing never took off, we’ll never know.

The ACPAD gives guitar players the ability to control MIDI or DAW-based devices without taking their hands off their instrument. The slimline controller sticks onto guitars, adding pressure-sensitive pads and sliders which let you trigger sounds, record loops, and more.

This unique musical instrument replaces traditional keys with soft silicone bumps which can each tweak pitch, vibrato and other dynamics. The nuanced, ethereal sounds it makes are unlike any other keyboard we’ve heard.

An innovative add-on for guitar and bass players, the Guitar Wing lets you wirelessly control DAWs, MIDI effects units and even synths from the edge of your instrument. It offers pads, buttons, faders and a 3-axis motion sensor.

Performance artist Reggie Watts demos this nifty kit of electronic sound modules from littleBits and Korg, which lets you assemble your own analog synthesizers. The modules can be connected to other littleBits modules too.