I see that Frequency Factory is showing this year at Buchla & Friends ( thread ).
This looked promising, but was an early prototype, so it will be interesting to see the progress on this a month from now.
ADDED : I see that CLANK, Sound Workshop, and Frap Tools ( see this post above ) will also be at the show, so look for updates on their GIP as well.
This is something that could be happening rather than is happening.
The Hydrasynth Desktop has poly aftertouch pads arranged like a three string guitar. The Diosynth has the wavetable parts, and the LFOs and envelopes, and mod matrix from the Hydrasynth, combined with a two layer multi sample play back part, all battery powered with wireless MIDI output. If they put these parts together with a well done industrial design, and a new collection of sampled sounds, maybe adding a Karplus-Strong section, and this could make a very interesting, and capable, and unique synth / controller.
( I’m a hw sw product designer, so i well know the amount of work involved, beyond the elevator pitch but thought this worthy posting here. )
Neutral Labs who makes Scrooge and Elmyra 2 have a new, device set to be announced March 2nd.
ADDED : Any new word on this ? That announcement date is fast approaching.
ADDED : It’s a patchable CMOS logic board ( fits Eurorack ) made musical, called Luna ( thread ).
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It looks like Oddment may be formalizing some binaural effect processing into their ODD-1 granular synth, due out the middle part of this year.
Oddment founder John Woodruff has background in the science of binaural audio and put together this video specifically on that topic, also applying the use of the ODD-1.
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Dreadbox had and maybe still has a keyboard synth in development. @rklem posted about it back in October of 2024, based on an interview, where Yiannis of Dreadbox talked about using a Fatar keybed in a new synth. To my knowledge there has been no new word on this, but i wouldn’t doubt that this could still be under way.
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I posted about this earlier :
There’s a new video out, and they’ve added a lot of new, what i think, are very useful features.
Three and a half minutes long.
Due to ship in June 2026.
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Rob Puricelli of Prosynth Network asked Glen Darcey this question, together with other future product questions, and Glen gave the standard, “will not confirm or deny” answer, though he added he knew the answer to some of the questions.
As i’ve said elsewhere i think a direct follow on to the Hydrasynth is fairly likely. One problem i see is there are four HS products already; do you release four Mk2’s ?
The Hydrasynth has been around for a while, but it’s seems to me it’s no where near EOL.
Another possibility would be to just have something else with a whole new name that inherits some aspects of the Hydrasynth but goes in some new directions too.
I don’t see the Hydrasynth losing its place in the market anytime soon. It’s the affordable and versatile MPE-friendly sound designers synth and they just marketed serious upgrade over it to compete with the other actual upgrades over it. Its IO and interface are perfectly fine and not specifically showing age and to this day nobody else has sold a 600 dollar 8 voice keyboard synth with polyphonic aftertouch, digital or otherwise.
If it isn’t facing manufacturing problems or a real drop in sales the only reason to make a mk 2 would be if they figure out a way to add more voices and layers and a sequencer without making it more expensive.
That said they should just strap a new manufacture but otherwise unchanged access virus Ti2 to their 61 key polytouch board with ribbon and start printing money.
Richard from Pittsburgh Modular teased something new in SonicTalk #883.
It seems a sequencer!
Eager to hear more! I really like, PM stuff.
Edit: There’s the Cre8audio logo printed on the device, so we can estimate something along the line of the Boom Chick and Assembler; So cheap and feature packed 
A closer ( slightly blurry ) look from the same video :
Looks like the product will be called Programm.
PM hired a software developer a year plus back, so this may well be part of her well crafted work.
Looking forward for more on this.
ADDED : There is a thread on this now.
It seems that Synthanatomy already made and article a couple of days ago!
Here’s the link: Cre8audio Programm: upcoming performance sequencer with Pittsburgh Modular - SYNTH ANATOMY
An excerpt:
*The Program sequencer features four CV tracks and 8 drum tracks. You can select tracks using the buttons on the left. The step sequencer has 32 pads, which suggests it has 32 steps. However, I suggest there will be multiple pages, and so you have at least 64 steps.
Alongside classic transport controls (play, record, stop), you can find various workflow buttons, including page, octave down, octave up, sequencer, and clear. There are also shift functions like hold, song mode, save, copy, MIDI settings, and more
The Programm sequencer also seems to have a number of creative tools built in, so that you can build very evolving patterns.*
My estimation on this is that, if there is going to be a Mk2 generation, there won’t be any HS Deluxe Mk2 and probably any HSD either.
Midicake has some sort of new hardware product ( i think ? ) under way !! See this post.
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Enjoy Electronics is about to ship The Don, a quadraphonic effects unit.
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A startup in Chicago ( that obviously has some money ), ALAN Instruments is working on a drum machine SpaceDrum.
The Monk Project TMA Machine
i got ads for this on ig, after looking tho, i believe they were just samples
Stuff I’m looking forward to:
New Faderfox Controllers (wrote some mails with faderfox and they said they’ll have new midicontrollers in summer:
#1 - 88 encoders, 13 buttons, OLED
#2 - 16 (100mm) fader , 21 buttons , OLED
#3 - 32 high contrast encoders + 4 OLED
All 2 midi in/out minijack + usb c
All encoders will feature a resolution of 2000 steps instead of 128
They will come in a alu-enclosure (same as the old solid-controllers)
Stylophone:
One the fly - sequencer
Behringer - Engima (ill leave it at that):
Something thats already out there I’m eyeballing Manifold Research Centre - Antilope:
Interesting – 88 encoders, 13 buttons.
88, like notes on a piano ?? 13, an octave plus one.
Some sort of keyboard sort of function, or what ?
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I was looking ahead at the exhibitors at SynthFest France which is less than a month away. They always have new gear you don’t see elsewhere. For instance :
For two years running, Lionel Gély has shown up with interesting new stuff. Maybe the Alkohol binaural synth makes it beyond prototype this year.
ADDED : Alkohol has transformed into a new in progress product called Alkove – see this post.
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Another company at SFF that often shows up with unusual new Eurorack products is Kaona ( post from 2025 ). They have new firmware for their Zazou module, but they look primed for something else weird and new as well.
ADDED : Kaona does indeed have a new product called Fractaos. See this post below.
Looking at the timetable Pylobolus will indeed be there (Saturday 15:30). But I see absolutely no mention of Kaona this year. Edit: they are listed on the site but no demo room, maybe just a booth
One unusual piece of gear that caught my eye was Sp3ctra (Sunday 13:30)
We must have different lists then. Kaona is definitely on my list of SFF exhibitors in 2026.
I think you are looking at SFF performances. The SFF 2026 exhibitor list is here.
Also for possible new gear at SFF keep an eye on – Baloran.
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Not at SFF but around the same time, coming up new in Eurorack, Knobula has a major new module announcement ( perhaps a drum module cow ) coming out in a few weeks.
ADDED : It’s called Drum Farm. See the Superbooth 2026 thread link just after this post.
Sadly I have no more information about the faderfox but I assume it is more into the direction of their PC12 and MX12 controllers, as I was asking the owner if they have any stock left for sale.
Indeed I was…
Another manufacturer who is going to demo their stuff, and which I haven’t seen much talk about is laguna, a sort of portable grovebox, moving in the same space M8 is making waves I think.
