Modal Electronics has announced the Modal CRAFTsynth – an assemble-it-yourself monophonic synthesiser, with full MIDI support through a Class Compliant USB port.

According to to Modal, the CRAFTsynth can be assembled in 10 minutes, with no tools, and ‘it brings real synthesizer performance to a new price point’.

Modal CRAFTsynth Specifications:

Monophonic DSP based self-assembly synthesiser, requires no soldering or electronics skills, tools or knowledge

Eight front panel potentiometers for editing control, with two pages of editing functionality

2 oscillators per voice sine, tri, saw, pwm, noise plus FM (OSC2 modulates pitch of OSC1) detune and fine detune for OSC2

Mixer stage for OSC levels

Unison / spread mode that splits the oscillators into four separate sub oscillators per oscillator giving a total of eight oscillators, de-tunable for a HUGE sound

LFO with six destinations VCA amplitude filter cutoff FM amount OSC mix PWM amount pitch / frequency

Four LFO wave forms, each invertible Sine, tri, saw, square

LFO auto syncs to MIDI clock if present

Resonant low pass filter

16 recallable EG presets for ease of use Soon to be released, CRAFTapp will provide full editing control of EG’s for custom envelopes which can be stored within a patch

16 patch storage locations (manageable through Modal CRAFTapp)

Playable touch panel interface with five note keys plus controls for scale and glide time Scale changes between major, minor, diatonic and blues

Delay and distortion (waveshaping overdrive, not bit crushing) effects

Headphone and line output

Class Compliant MIDI provided over USB connection to host computer or tablet

Powered by USB or optional AA battery pack

Modal CRAFTapp for iOS, Macintosh and PC coming end of 2016. Android support planned for Q1 2017.

Audio Demo:

Video Demo:

Pricing and Availability

The Modal CRAFTsynth is available now, priced at US $99.