Nowadays, the market of electronic musical instruments is extremely large, so for beginners who have decided to acquire a hardware setup, the choice of instruments becomes a problem, as it is difficult not to drown in the variety of options and find inexpensive devices with a wide range of functions. Last time we offered you a setup of three digital instruments, now it's time to dig into the analog instruments market and figure out which ones are worth buying for the widest possible range of features and the least amount of money.

Already world famous for its analog synthesizers company Arturia has recently launched a new instument in continuation of its Brute line - DrumBrute Impact. This compact drum machine is smaller than its big brother Drumbrute but it has an interesting option - built-in FM synthesizer. The creators promise that this synth will change the way you create rhythms forever.

The last week has brought a lot of interesting news for the amateurs of modular synthesizers, such as a new oscillator with waveform change functions from Pittsburgh Modular, a Link module (Evaton Technologies) for connecting several modular systems, a percussion eurorack-module Fracture, which uses granular synthesis to create a variety of percussion sounds, and new plans by Behringer.

The Gotharman company presented its new two-voice multi-timbral synthesizer/sampler duoSpaze, which in essence is a smaller version of PolySpaze — four-voice synthesizer from the same company. 

IK Multimedia has released an analog synthesizer for everyone - UNO Synth. It has a rather fat sound, it has everything you need for beginners in subtractive synthesis, and even a sequencer. In addition, it is very compact, has an intuitive control and costs only $199!