It's not often we spot a pin matrix on a new synth these days, but that's exactly what you'll find adorning the right side of ALT, a new analogue synth from French manufacturer Cyma Forma.
Taking us back to the days of the EMS Synthi and the ARP 2500, the pin matrix is a system used for patching on non-modular synthesizers; with inputs and outputs on each axis, a pin is inserted in the matrix to connect the two. ALT's matrix is used for modulation, hooking up one of its four modulation sources (two LFOs, one random step generator and one envelope follower) to a choice of seventeen destinations.
