It sure looks cute!!!
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It looks like those little 500 in 1 retro handheld game things from aliexpress. Wish they gave a few details about the actual synth so I could make a counterpoint comment in it’s defense! Very cute!
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It will be at Superbooth. Looks like an AI generated image!?! 
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Off topic environmental aside
I love my pretty synth boxes as much as anyone but a lot of these new minimal design things make me wonder if we can’t just have some open music operating systems that slot into various reusable instances of button, encoder, fader combinations. It might be because I work in the environment sector, but I’m starting to worry about the amount of single use for a few years and then discard plastic boxes the electronic music world is putting out.
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how I feel about this handheld device I’m typing on right now
I’m curious because it’s FM, and it’s cute. I don’t like the button placement near the bottom if it’s to be held in the hands while in use. Less interested if online connection is required too…
We’ll see!
This looks very TE gimmicky, price probably going to be higher than it should
Good point! I wonder if it’ll be easy to hit those buttons with the corner of the thumb knuckle, similar to using a video game controller.
This synth is way too cute for me, but I’m very interested in it. 4-part multitimbral and 12 voices… Why aren’t more synths multitimbral these days?
The interface looks pretty awesome: looks so easy to set up different FM algorithms, with the big complex envelope in the middle for modulation.
Has anyone heard anything about the release date?
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Lots of love for this at SuperBooth. But if you want to make FM easy or understandable, you need to show it in the frequency domain. All these fancy time-domain animations look pretty, but are not very illuminating when it comes to sound. IMHO, YMMV, etc. etc.
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I see what you did there! 
Good point. The frequencies didn’t seem as well described on screen: just dragging up/down on the circle that represents each operator. If I understood correctly, the knobs might have both coarse and fine control of frequency, but I don’t know. I guess I’d have to try it myself.
I’m still very interested, because I like these alternative interfaces for FM. For example, the operator mixer on the Opsix was a new design and I think it works quite well.
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It’s much bigger than I expected, so much less concern from me about the button placement since it would probably stay firmly seated on a table.
I think they mentioned that the interface might evolve before production which would be welcome IMO. It’s a bit too iPad app for me at the moment, which pains me to say, but I’ll be watching the development. Consensus was that it’s fun.
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This thing has a lot of potential. It seems like it should be at the moment, but if you play and hear it in person, all would probably agree that it deserves to live in its own box and not be an ipad app. It’s a very cool take on FM synthesis and even at this early developement stage shows a lot of promise. At least to me. The devs are also very down to earth and passionate, and were one of the standouts for me at SB.
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Since it’s multitimbral, I wouldn’t mind separate outputs
So true. the 1010 Nanoboxes fit into this category for me. My Lemondrop felt like it wasn’t going to hold up long - sold it off quick, lesson learned.
Absolutely, that’s why I cringed when I said it was a little too iPad for my tastes. I think a lot of naysayers were changing their tune after playing it at SB. Definitely something I’d love, no pun intended, to play myself. It’s one thing to judge gear on how it looks on YouTube and another to actually play it. But most of us are armchair synth geeks on account of not being able to play a lot of gear.
Is it? I mean, it’s a four op fm synth. Nothing unusual in its sounds compared to a DN, Essence, Preen, or any other FM in hardware or software. The interface is the differentiator (which is always the case with FM since the sound engine is identical across all of them). This one looks to be focusing on cool visualizers which don’t seem like they’ll add much to the process of making a patch, but probably won’t hurt either. And nothing wrong with wanting stuff to look pretty.
But apart from that, seems very standard. What am I missing?
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I dont know, but the ease with which one can create cool sounding patches and have fun doing it is above else I think. It also sounded quite good to me. I mean, it’s very early so time will tell. But I always root for new passionate developers who take a gamble on some aspect of their creation. And I really liked the whole presentation, design and the people behind it.
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Yeah. FM is really cool, but can seem obscure depending on approach.
I think it’s super nice if this is a way to help it “click” for people that have had a hard time with other workflows, or are curious but aren’t interested at all in other UIs they’ve seen.
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