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Sonic Joy Awards 2016 – The Best Synths Of The Year

Fab, January 9, 2017January 11, 2017


Welcome to our 2016 Sonic Joy awards for the Best Synths category.

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2016 was a great year for the synthesizer industry. Analog is back, Eurorack is stronger than ever, new synth-related events are popping up everywhere…

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As consequence, we’ve seen many excellent new instruments and this list could have been much longer than it is. After considerable internal discussion (and a few drinks), however, we decided (as for other categories) to restrict the number of winners to 5.

So, without further ado….

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