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Critter & Guitaris 201 Music Synthesizer is its latest portable and hackable instrument..

This advanced MIDI synthesiser is easy to build and can be hooked up to any MIDI compatible device. It lets you explore the broad range of acoustic elements that capture the characteristics of real and imaginary instruments. It is more than an experiment – it is a full-blown instrument capable of forming rich, detailed sounds using a plethora of settings, envelopes and waveforms – a blank canvas. by Jeremy Leach

After recreating the Moog modular, Roland System 100M and ARP 2500 modules in Eurorack form, Behringer decided to tackle something more modern in the shape of a multi-engine digital oscillator module.

image-synth approach to sound synthesis, the sound synthesis is powered by pixels data produced on the graphics card by code. Fragment can be thought of as an oscillator-bank and It has many features making it a bliss to produce any kind of sounds and visuals and is aimed at artists seeking a creative environment with few limitations to experiment with, a programmable noise-of-all-kinds software / sound design tool. ...