Static between radio stations, ghost melodies drifting in from neighboring cities, and long evolving tones all fold into a single tabletop instrument here. This is a digital drone synthesizer designed not just to generate sound, but to listen to the world around it and turn those signals into music you can play with your fingertips.
Siluria is a polyphonic, multi-timbral synth and effects processor built around a 12-tone capacitive touch keyboard with velocity sensitivity and polyphonic aftertouch. You can treat it as a playable drone synth with separate waveforms for a constant underlying layer and the main voice, or control everything via MIDI and even use it as a MIDI controller for other gear. Its internal engines run on a 1GHz dual-core RISC-V processor with 512MB of memory and a 48kHz audio codec, giving it the horsepower to stream, process, and record complex textures while staying responsive.
Where it really diverges from typical drones is in how it accepts and transforms external sound. You can choose from three input sources: a built-in FM radio, stereophonic line input, or WAV files from a microSD card. Any of these can either feed the multi-FX section or act as modulation sources, letting radio hiss, field recordings, or prepared samples bend your drones in real time. The onboard processing includes a resonant filter, reverb, delay, flanger, and a pitch shifter, with parameters shaped by eight smooth analog knobs and visual feedback on a compact OLED display.
Connection options keep it flexible in the studio and on stage. Six 3.5mm jacks provide audio in and out, MIDI in and out, a separate unprocessed FM radio output, and an external antenna connector to complement the built-in half-wavelength antenna. USB-C handles power and data, so you can run it from a power bank or computer and move recorded WAV files and firmware updates directly to and from the SD card. There’s no speaker or battery on purpose: Siluria is meant to sit at the center of a system, quietly pulling sound from the air and pushing it into whatever speakers, mixers, or recorders you trust most.
