Two days ago, a British company Modal Electronics launched its new portable synthesizer SCULPT on Kickstarter. This is the first instrument in the new line of portable synthesizers, which, like the CRAFT line, will consist of small but much more functional instruments.

Among the features and capabilities of the synth’s digital sound engine there are:

• 4-voice polyphony with 8 oscillators per voice
• 2 waveforms with smooth morphing to choose from
• monophonic, duophonic and polyphonic modes
• a mixer for controlling oscillator levels, tone adjustment, as well as FM, PWM and RM
• an 8-cell modulation matrix with 8 sources and 37 assignments
• 3 envelopes for a filter, amplitude and modulation
• 2 LFOs, one global, one polyphonic
• a resonant filter, which from a low-frequency one can be transformed into a band-pass and a high-frequency filter
• an advanced arpeggiator
• a sequencer with the ability to record up to 128 notes and 4 parameter automations in real time
• delay and distortion (an overdrive, not a beatcrusher)
• banks for storage of 128 patches and 64 sequences
• optional delay and LFO synchronization via MIDI

You can control the parameters of the synthesizer with the help of knobs and buttons on the front panel, or with the MODALApp application on MacOS, Windows, iOS and Android, which is supplied with the instrument. The application will also provide an integration with instruments from the previous CRAFTsynth and CRAFTrhythm lines. The cost of the synth is about $275 and you can (and probably should) order it right now.