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The pipe lets you use your voice to make the sounds you hear inside your head, but can never get out. It's surprisingly playable and fun, once you master the hand position. My neighbors are very concerned about this instrument.

This is the most "fun" synth I own. You can pop it on to make space noises and robot farts, quickly build a rhythm and start singing, or incorporate it into a midi chain and use it for beat and flourish (midi is an add-on kit - google it). It also uses batteries and it's small! I pop it on a goose-neck mount in my car, connected to the car stereo, and enjoy the traffic jams.

The NDRL is a fantastic Synth controller that will play 4+ Synths, so you can focus on twisting knobs and fiddling filters. Almost every time I start using it, I stay up until 2am with a smile on my face. It's the bridge of your sonic starship. It's able to play frustrating synths (menu-miners) with minimal oversight, and it's able to convince your old-school synths to play nice with digital new-comers. Fantastic online community and active support from the designers.

Rather goofy to play in a controlled fashion, but fascinating to take on a walk or use a soundtrack to travel. Also very useful when sweeping a room for transmitters, comrade.

On a rack that is hauled into the woods, powered with a generator, and slogged with beer every now and then. Sounds great and is able to drive vintage SUNN PA gear with aplomb.

Very power conscious, never falters. Sounds clean.

A bit of a learning curve, took me a few video's to grok how to sequence. Now it's super fun and my go-to when I want to explore a new song. While I appreciate the compact size, this does mean every Midi connection has a dongle... I'm always scared I'm going to set up, and discover the dongle is still at home, being chewed on by the cat.

Sounds better than my 4-pedal chain. And it's stereo in/out which is great for synths. It's a large footprint - so make sure you have space. The ability to recall settings is great, it's done w/ knobs - unfortunately my in-skull memory is questionable so often there's a post-it note with E-4, B-8, to remind me stuck somewhere on it. Of course that post it note usually falls on the floor while setting up. The spring reverb is fun and sounds great. And you can tap the window to generate percussion sproings. Unfortunately you can also bump the table and generate percussion sproings, so disable the reverb when you don't want it!