Digital oscillators

ALM Busy Circuits MCO £139

The compact MCO offers great sound and affordability, in a compact module format. It’s capable of morphing from one wave to the next, using the process known as wavetable, but is also equipped with a dedicated sub-oscillator output, in order to shore up those thundering bass sounds. It’s got a slight digital crunch in its tone, lending itself well to contemporary production styles. busycircuits.com

Mutable Instruments Plaits £199

Plaits is a simple-to-use and effective oscillator, which has been designed from the ground up to offer immediacy in tone selection, and the ability to change its sound in real time, either manually or within your Eurorack. It offers a beautifully digital tone, with capacity to create a vast number of interesting timbres, as a starting point for tone creation. mutable-instruments.net

Qu-Bit Electronix Scanned £325

This digital oscillator is classed as an organic wavetable oscillator. While it can produce more usual subtractive-style synthesis tones, its strength lies in its ability to animate and exaggerate the waveforms, through modulation elsewhere in the modular. It can sound tame and gnarly in very equal amounts. Definitely an oscillator with hidden depths and attitude! qubitelectronix.com