UPVOTED SYNTHS
Got everything it takes to be a musician, except musicianship? Richard Purvis is here to help you express yourself with nine fruity sound generators…
MINIATURE MAYHEM
The wee workstation IK Multimedia Uno
Making electronic music used to involve surrounding yourself with banks of giant modules like the captain of a very noisy spaceship. Now look at this iPad-sized beast. It’s fully analogue but programmable, comes with 100 presets, and includes an arpeggiator and 16-step sequencer.
€200
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The DIY demon Teenage Engineering Modular 170
One day Teenage Engineering will slip up and produce something that isn’t cool enough to make people grow a beard on the spot. Until then, we’ll have to carry on being seduced by gadgets like this, a self-assembly analogue squelcher with eight little patch cables and a built-in speaker round the back.£399 / teenage.engineering