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Andy Price

Got some loose change? Well, it might just be the starting point of your next electronic masterpiece if you stack it atop Soma’s Enigma – the synth that's controlled by metal objects

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SUPERBOOTH 2026: This year’s increasingly essential synth expo Superbooth is set to begin in just a few days time, and we’re already foaming at the mouth in anticipation of some of the upcoming treats we’ll be getting our hands on when the doors open at Berlin’s Fez on May 7th. Chief among them, the tantalisingly unique Enigma from Soma Laboratory.

Marking ten years since the company put out its very first synth, the Lyra-8 (and 4) back in 2016, Soma’s Enigma is continuing the company's innovative ethos, and is sonically manipulated by the position and movement of metallic objects upon its surface. It harks back to the pioneering sound design-based experiments of the foundational synth progenitors, when the rules were, well, still being written.

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