Shmøergh has introduced the Hog synthesizer, a fully analog two-voice monophonic synth that they say features is “designed for musicians who need a simple but fat synth in live situations.”
Features include a 100% analog signal and control path with two oscillators, a sub and noise sources, and “an extremely drippy diode ladder filter” that keeps the low end, even when resonance is fully on.
Hog is available now as a DIY project. All the hardware and software are open source and freely available, for anyone who wants to build their own.
Shmøergh Hog Intro Video:
Features:
- Fully analog signal path and control circuits
- Two voices with triangle, sawtooth, square waveshapes
- Sub or noise extra voice
- Narrow and variable pulse width for voice 1
- 10 octave precision
- 5 octaves switch
- Voice 2 with +/- 1/2 octave and detune
- 2 selectable LFOs for auto-wah and vibrato
- Playground with variable modulation paths
- Custom quick envelope system
- Glide
- Variable gate modes (envelope, gate and drone)
- MIDI upgradable
- Customizable, hackable, open-source
More demo videos are available at the Shmøergh Youtube page.
Availability:
The Shmøergh Hog is available now as an open source DIY project.
Fat is traditionally written “phat”
i love the design.
looks cool, but the tiny switches and some tiny knobs, that’s not gonna go over well with the sausage fingers..
This could be a perfect, feature-reduced entry-level synth …shame they’ve limited it to not be polyphonic.
I would have liked to see switches instead of knobs for both waveforms and octave and a much larger cutoff knob on the front panel.
It could. It is an opensource project, feel free to contribute!
I would buy it in a heartbeat.
Its fantastic, on point, looks great and sounds like what it promises to do.
I dont need another all arounder in my studio.
Please sell this
“Simple but fat”. Just like me.