Superbooth 2026: Error Instruments founder Paul Tas shared this sneak preview of the SmartLAB, a new synthesizer, created in collaboration with This Is Not Rocket Science (TINRC).
The SmartLAB is a new standalone hybrid synthesizer, designed for experimental sound design and performance. It offers multiple synthesis approaches in a single touch-based device.
At its core, Smart Lab features advanced granular synthesis, alongside more than 36 physical modelling engines, distributed across two powerful sound engines.
The expressive touch interface includes motion recording, allowing you to capture gestures and replay them as evolving modulation—similar to a looper, but for movement and sound shaping.
Smart Lab also functions as a versatile sound processor, offering over 15 effects, including delays and textures inspired by organic, fluid soundscapes. Tas describes it as “somewhere between an ambient machine and the playful unpredictability of a bubble-based synthesizer in the spirit of Rob Hordijk.”
Features:
Standalone touch interface with motion control and gesture memory
Dual synthesis engines with granular and physical modelling capabilities
36+ physical modelling sound engines
Experimental delay and effects processor (15+ types)
External LFO input and audio input support
Built-in microphone for instant sound capture
Easy sound saving and recall
Smart Lab is currently in prototype stage, with a planned release in July–August. For more information, visit the Error Instruments site.
Audio Wanderer has introduced Noise Maker, described as an “ultra-niche synth created for those who want to make awful digital noise that would terrorize the neighborhood and make the cops go to your place several times a week”.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
“A non-idiomatic synth made not to be controlled or understood in any manner, but to be experienced. Based on poor signal-to-noise ratio transmissions and glitch aesthetics. The key to playing with this noisy device isn’t to reach perfection in its operation or to try to predict the way it is going to work to achieve similar results every time we use it.
No, the idea is to abandon ourselves to the noise and be freed by the chaos… and then the noise will set you free.”
The Noise Maker synth is expected to be available soon, priced under $50.
Developer Momo Müller let us know that he has released a Patch Editor and Soundbank for the Behringer CZ-1 MINI synthesizer.
The CZ-1 mini Editor gives you direct access from the DAW to the Behringer CZ-1 mini parameters, allowing you to integrate it into the DAW project. In the PlugIn VST version, you can also record controller movements and so the sound change can be saved.
With its 9 different random functions, you can explore the full sound potential of the CZ-1 mini.
Features:
Simple handling of the CZ-1 mini without menu surfing.
Complex sound changes can be made easily and quickly.
Change Behringer CZ-1 mini Sounds directly from Editor.
Many controllers can be automated.
X-Y modulation of all parameters.
You can random the Controllers of the Behringer CZ-1 mini Synth to produce new sounds.
You can use your Behringer CZ-1 mini as a sound module in your DAW.
9 different random functions
A Editor sound bank with over 50 new sounds is included.
The CZ-1 MINI Patch Editor is available now, for Mac and Windows, for € 6.90/$ 7.
