Erica Synths Resonant Filterbank Debuts At Superbooth 2026


Erica Synths’ big launch at this year’s Superbooth is Resonant Filterbank – an analogue/digital performance and production-friendly effects unit which sports ten bandpass filters to squeeze and maximise your input sounds, cutting and boosting specific frequencies at will.

But this sleek aluminium-housed box is more than just a simple 10-band filterbank, you can also use it as both an unconventional multimode filter or as an instrument in its own right, particularly when you play with the box’s various resonance controls.

It can become a standalone instrument via configurable feedback loops. “[It can be used] even as an experimental sound generator for no-input mixer-like setups,” state Erica Synths.

You can use the Filterbank’s Clocked Modulation Mode to program specific band positions in a set sequence and build oscillating stereo effects. This is done via 20 independent LFOs and envelope followers which can be assigned to any control parameter. It also features a spectral analyser and a dynamic EQ, making it a lot deeper than you might think upon initial inspection.

The small display screen gives detailed visual feedback as to what’s happening, with a helpful Macro view that can guide you when setting the sliders to access and control specific features and, orienting the machine to be used as a performance instrument.

Its user snapshot preset memory has 128 slots which you’re also able to morph between on the fly.

In terms of ins/outs, there’s 6.3mm balanced stereo inputs and outputs, a customisable footswitch input, and five-pin DIN MIDI in and USB for firmware updates and patch loading. There’s an analogue Gain Stage which boosts incoming signals up to +24dB.

Going back to the surface level filtering abilities, and its frequency range stretches across: 29 Hz, 61 Hz, 115 Hz, 218 Hz, 411 Hz, 777Hz, 1.5 kHz, 2.8 kHz, 5.2 kHz and 11 kHz.

So, however you use it – whether it’s applied to drum machines, synths, modular setups or even guitars, Resonant Filterbank sounds like it will expand the sonic scope and then some.

Resonant Filterbank is available to preorder for €660 (VAT not included) at Erica Synths website, the product ships on May 18

 

Buchla Ziggy Hands-On Demo


Superbooth 2026: In this video, via Stromkult, Nick Kwas offers a hands-on demo of the new Buchla Ziggy synthesizer.

Ziggy is a self-contained analog synthesizer designed to distill key elements of West Coast synthesis into a desktop form factor. It features a ‘West Coast’ complex oscillator paired with a modulation oscillator, a low pass gate, and depth-focused modulation sources, including the unique Cycler and an extra LFO.

Topics covered:

0:00 Introduction
0:20 Sound demo 1
0:45 Whats Ziggy?
1:10 Sound demo 2
1:33 Signal Path
2:09 Sound 3emo 3
2:19 Connectivity
3:23 Sound demo 4
3:30 How to use it?
3:47 Sound demo 5
4:37 No Patchpoints?
5:08 Shipping / Preoder

View the video overview and lets us know what you think of the Buchla Ziggy in the comments!

 

Make Noise Debuts Soundhack Plexiphon At Superbooth 2026


At Superbooth 2026, Make Noise has introduced the Soundhack Plexiphon, a stereo, modeless spatial texturizer which allows for continuously morphing between reverberations and multi-tap echoes, with “the widest range of possible results being neither reverb nor echo, and all results highlighting and amplifying character previously hidden in the source material being processed.”

Plexiphon is built from entirely new code by Tom Erbe, specifically for Make Noise’s newest digital hardware.

The Plexus control simultaneously modulates the number of feedback paths in the algorithm, and their entanglement together. The Size of the paths determines the temporal relation between them, operating like a “delay time,” or a “room size,” at either extreme of Plexus.

Diffuse and Color offer softening/sharpening/darkening/brightening effects over time.

Couple and Skew are stereo operations: Couple determines to what degree the left and right sides are isolated or intermingled (from “dual mono” to fully interlaced stereo), while Skew offers simultaneous inverse or tandem control of the left and right paths on the Plexus, Size, and Color parameters.

The Send gate input (normalled high, or patchable) determines whether and when the input signal will be fed into the Plexus.

An envelope follower is provided at the CV output for re-integration of the Plexus into its own controls or elsewhere in the voltage controlled system.

Features:

  • Modeless Plexus operation allows instant voltage controlled access to all possible combinations of settings, no mode switching or algorithmic isolationism
  • Stereo in, stereo out with mono sum normalizations for inputs and/or outputs
  • Smooth modulation of space, time and intensity via Size and Decay
  • Voltage control over stereo image with Couple
  • Shape texture timbre with Diffusion and Color parameters
  • Easy patching of dub echo techniques with Send gate
  • CV Out completes the conversation between Plexiphon and the rest of your system!

The Make Noise Soundhack Plexiphon is priced at $469 USD. Visit the Make Noise site for more information.