The Texture Lab excels at ambient glitch like Microstoria and Fennez, it’s not that expensive, portable and has a workable keyboard.
I’ve found it really useful as an extra source of texture with the Syntakt, weaving in pads, vocals, garbled this and that, stutters, stretching, tearing sounds and general psychedelia.
It has an Elektron-lite form of sequencing, but cc mapping is good too, so it can be sequenced and parameter locked with the Syntakt.
The small crop of YouTube videos give a fair indication of its capabilities and how it is to programme.
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the great thing about the Nords is that they sound great, can sound warm or cold… and the randomization is intelligent, plus they make it really easy to save 50 patches that you like in in the mutators buffer so that you can organize them easily and quickly… QOL!
then you can combine your sfx into 4 slots and really sculpt them into anything you want to be used separately or together as a performance patch
L4 for honorary mention
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Another vote for Gotharman being likely the weirdest of all things weird. I only have hands-on experience with the LD3, but it gets weird AF. Regardless of whether I use the synth or sampling engine, I think it’s the open bus system and the morphing sequencer that really does it for me. I haven’t used or heard any other instrument like it.
I generally enjoy pushing synths into weird territory, but I have to say I get to weird places much faster with samplers. I find myself discovering much crazier sounds with a handful of samples in an Octatrack, M8 or Renoise than with most synthesizers.
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I’m with you. Blast beats it’s the most alien sounding device that I ve had.
Its quirkiness probably plays a part in this feeling ^^
I would add DSI Evolver with companion software (paid) which has the Genetics Patcher which combine elements from two presets and you can choose different modes of combining plus a random generation which is one of the weirdest digital/buzzy noises generator I’ve encountered since my first synth in 2003.
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in soft…syntplant2 and all of bitwigs as endless as easy options for eternal sounddesign trips…
in hard…microfreak, hydrasynth and digitone…
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