SYNTH WEEK 2026: Synthesizers are weird. They’re musical instruments but they’re also consumer electronics, and as such they aren’t allowed to sit still. You don’t see classical instrument companies falling over themselves to constantly reinvent the violin or piano, but that’s what happens every year at trade shows like NAMM and Superbooth: new synths with new synthesis architectures.
Perhaps someday we’ll all decide that the Minimoog is the ultimate expression of the instrument, the Stradivarius of synths, and leave it at that, but until then we’ll have to keep coming up with new ways to wrangle sound.
