AFFORDABLE SYNTHS

Erica Bassline DB-01 €460

Full Review: FM359

A powerful sequencer and plenty of unique features make this much more than just another Bassline-clone.

Novation Circuit

£250

Review: FM299 A broad range of sounds with a fluid and intuitive workflow all adds up to make Circuit a winner.

Its sequencer is absolutely killer too.

Korg Minilogue XD

£565

Review: FM341 The four biggest Prologue features (Multi-Engine, user oscillator/effect import, filter-drive and stereo-effects) in an affordable form. Instabuy!

Arturia MicroFreak

£279

Review: FM345 If you’re looking to go beyond regular analogue synths and expand your sonic palette with an affordable creative tool,

MicroFreak should be top of your ‘must try’ list.

Modal Argon 8

£579

Review: FM354 A very versatile sound engine, which covers lots of territory – from warm analogue to cold industrial. Another great

British synth!

Korg Wavestate £699

Full Review: FM353

The price might be pushing what we’d usually call ‘affordable’ but with 64 stereo voices and a multi-timbral sound engine you get a lot for your money here. And it sounds great too!

Roland JU-06A

$399

Review: FM349 The JU-06 was already up with the best Boutiques, and this update is a winner all-round. A must-try source of classic sounds.

Korg Nu:Tekt NTS-1

£99

Review: FM351 Easy to build and fun to program, the NTS-1’s flexibility and expandability make it a mini synth to be reckoned with.

Arturia MiniBrute 2S

£575

Review: FM328 The second coming of ’Brute sees it take on an expanded synth engine and semi-modular architecture. The sequencerfocused 2S is our favourite.

Korg Volca FM

£129

Review: FM305 A great-sounding box of classic

FM sounds. It might lack the polyphony of the

DX7 but, apart from that, the sound is bang on.

Its motion sequencing is seriously powerful too.