NAMM 2023: Intellijel's Cascadia looks like it has enough power, connectivity and features to massively appeal to the hardcore modular synth community, but an encouraging approach and workflow that could see it adopted by a wider fanbase.
Cascadia is a desktop, semi-modular synth that does, as Intellijel says, sit in a footprint about the size of your laptop (it's around 35 cm by 25cm). The company has managed to pack a lot into this small space including very flexible oscillators, a lot of connectivity and a huge amount of modulation. The synth boasts flavours of both East and West Coast synthesis, and while it has over 100 patch points, there's a logical connectivity and colour standard so you shouldn’t get lost if you are new to modular (and semi-modular), or if you want to dive deeply into the synth. And there's certainly a lot to get into.
