NI teamed up with Bob Moog Foundation to create a distinctive Kontakt instrument that captures iconic modular synthesizers, programmed and recorded by renowned producers and musicians.

Elektron adds a powerful new model to its hardware family with Digitone Keys, with dedicated outputs per-track, 8 voices, brand new customizable controls and much more.

Korg have announced the desktop module for their most popular analog synthesizer, the Minilogue xd and it weighs in at just over $500 USD.

The original CS-80, the synth behind the classic Blade Runner soundtrack, is on the 'clone' radar for Behringer. Here's the details and images they've announced so far.

Steinberg's Retrologue 2 is an excellent VST synth plugin that, thanks to Mind Music Labs, becomes better and more usable when it becomes a desktop, hardware synthesizer.

Super 8 from Native Instruments is a new virtual instrument for Reaktor 6 that offers a modern take on vintage polysynth sounds.

Get the lowdown on hooking up and connecting your Korg Prologue in this short video. You'll be up and running in under 4 minutes.

Looping and QWERTY mode are coming - see the loop functionality demonstrated in this teaser video for version 3 of the Deluge firmware.

This multi-talented new instrument for Reaktor combines looping, slicing, sampling and much more to provide a whole galaxy of ways to morph and mangle your sounds.

With 90 modular patch points, 4 analog VCOs and a 256 step sequencer, Moog's new Matriarch synth looks set to cause a stir when it's previewed at Moogfest.

With 2 voices of 4 oscillators each, mono, duo, chord and drone playing modes are possible. Here's more about this intriguing new hardware synthesizer.

A cryptic post together with a rather massive-looking synth from Russian specialists ELTA Music has appeared... what could it all mean?

Grab this free sound pack and learn how to use Korg's Monologue to make percussive beats and sounds you just can't get from a conventional drum machine.

This NES-inspired chiptune synth is shipping in March and has USB MIDI, a plug-in for remote management and much more. Here's the details.

Get the most out of your UNO hardware synth with 222 brand new patches, but without having to build them yourself. Here's the new collection from Ultimate Patches.

This monster synth from Waldorf could be one of the biggest we've ever heard in terms of its power and feature set. We got a chance to demo it at NAMM 2019.

This cool little synth, just announced by Arturia, has a pressure sensitive playing surface, multiple synth engines and it's more affordable than you might expect. Here's the lowdown.

The free 2.0 software update for Waldorf's Quantum synth adds a brand new fifth synthesis engine for even greater sonic flexibility. Here's what you need to know.

Well, well, well. Teenage Engineering have pulled the synth out of the bag with their new Pocket Operators... and these 3 machines are billed as affordable modular synths.

This unique desktop synth uses Phase Locked Loop Synthesis to generate some weird and wonderful sounds, and it has a whole bunch of tricks up its sleeve. See and hear it in action here.

2018 was a great year for hardware synths. Demand for hands-on music machines continues to grow year on year. Here's some of our favorite hardware synths released this year.