SinTH2 is a new hardware synthesizer built around five sample oscillators, a noise oscillator, 60-voice polyphony, four LFO generators, and two envelopes.
Its synthesis architecture includes 18 dB low-pass, band-pass, and high-pass filters, while an integrated effects DSP provides additional sound processing.
The instrument features motion recording for its controls, four OLED displays, 120 potentiometers, nine encoders, and 36 buttons. A 16-step polyphonic sequencer is included, along with 1,920 preset cells, a Fatar dynamic keyboard, symmetrical XLR audio output, and a stereo audio input routed to the effects processor.
Video Overview (in Polish):
Features:
- 60-voice polyphony
- Five sample oscillators
- 3GB of waveforms
- Noise oscillator
- Four LFO generators
- Two envelopes
- 18 dB low-pass filter
- 18 dB band-pass filter
- 18 dB high-pass filter
- Motion recording for all knobs
- Integrated FX DSP
- Four OLED displays
- 16-step polyphonic sequencer
- 120 potentiometers
- Nine encoders
- 36 buttons
- 1,920 cells for presets
- Symmetrical XLR audio output
- Stereo audio input to the effects processor
- Solid wood casing
- Fatar dynamic keyboard
- Available in folding-panel, fixed-panel, and desktop configurations
Pricing & Availability:
The manufacturer states that the SinTH2 is built to order, in the following form factors:
- The folding-panel version is listed at €6,999 including VAT.
- The fixed-panel version is listed at €6,799 including VAT.
- The desktop version is listed at €5,800 including VAT.
I love big swings like this.
Not sure why the fixed-panel version exists. If you have €6,799 to spend on a synth, you have €6,999 to spend on the much cooler folding-panel version of the same synth.
I agree. The fixed panel version will end up being very rare at that price. When collectors go for these in the future the folding panel version will obviously hold its value more.
It is a very cool synth…but it costs more than I paid for all of my current cars (individually, not combined) so it will just have to be something I admire from a distance, like a Moog One.
Unless the fixed version can have the panel more vertical than the movable version, yes, just spend a little more for the ability to move it.
No electrical engineer listed on team. Be sure to take a good look inside before committing to anything.
don’t graphic designers also do circuit simulations and PCB layout? lol. good call.i fwiw, it’s a digital synth, probably just a PC inside with a bunch of knob panels. (monday morning)
Probably a Raspberry Pi.
From what I can gather, the engineer is a guy named Tom Horn (Tomasz Ro?ek).
Surprised that there’s no English language overview yet.
Really puzzling is how English is missing from the CC translation for Youtube videos. Every other language is still in the list, but English is gone. I have filed a feedback with Youtube.
Will says: “Not sure why the fixed-panel version exists”
I’d hazard a guess that it’s size/weight considerations?
The weight of the extra wood is probably significant.
I don’t mind an all-digital hardware instrument, but at that price I would hope for some kind of multitimbrality, if not through analogue outs then through multichannel USB audio.
except the massive and impressive UI, this could be an iPad app.
The same thing can be said for literally ANY classic synth from the past 50 years.
I’m glad fresh, modern synths like this exist.
It might be one of the classics in 50 years time.
Jarre is one of the very few who seriously tour with this kind of synth. It has ‘studio creature’ written all over it. I look forward to better sound examples. You certainly don’t need a mega-beast like this to make good music, but with a GUI like that, it definitely has big synth-d*** energy. There are a lot of $5K-$10K instruments popping up lately…. Interesting.
Who will buy this?
Not one sound I heard was €6,999 sound!?
One can buy a lot of gear for this kind of money…not just one synth.
I would be surprised if they sell five of them…
And you are listening to Youtube audio through your 3/4″ laptop speakers? Yes, that’s a fine example of high fidelity. The 5.1 audio in my laptop is about as good as one can expect from a laptop, and this new synth sounds pretty intense.
My all Polish staff are translating for me. LOL. They’re asking what the hell an oscillator is.
$20 digital rompler plugin in €6,999 box….
6.999 is a good price for a synth that sounds like a 1999 VST plugin
Compare a Bugatti Veyron with a Bugatti Veyron driving simulator running in your computer. They may look the same when you are looking straight ahead, but look at the whole world around you and you see one is the real deal and the other is a toy. Before you say that isn’t even a fair comparison, you brought up comparing hardware with software.