Plinky+ Polyphonic Touch Synthesizer

Imagine a synth where your fingertips become strings on an invisible harp, pulling fragile, melancholic tones from a grid of 64 capacitive touch pads arranged in eight monophonic columns for that string-like playability. This deluxe evolution doubles the original's play surface, unlocking deeper gestures and expression in a compact metal enclosure that's just 210 x 220 x 30 mm and USB-C powered.

At its core, it's an 8-voice polyphonic digital beast blending wavetable, FM, granular, and sample-based synthesis with four wavetable oscillators per voice, a versatile 12dB/oct lowpass/highpass filter, 16 envelopes, four LFOs, and a mod matrix for wild routing. Effects like delay, reverb, distortion, saturation, highpass filter, and limiter polish everything, while stereo audio ins/outs (including new 1/4" TRS mains and a dedicated front volume knob), headphone jack, poly aftertouch, MPE, velocity, arpeggiator, sequencer, and 256 presets keep workflows fluid. A bigger, sharper OLED screen simplifies navigation, and full MIDI (USB, DIN, TRS) plus CV/gate/clock I/O make it a Eurorack or desktop chameleon.

Players love its moody, dense soundscapes for ambient and experimental work—rich layers from granular sparkle to gritty noise—but note the touch interface demands a mindset shift from traditional keys, rewarding practice with intuitive, live-ready control.