Dutch boutique synths don’t get much more niche than a keyboard inspired by a 1982 Dutch synth that almost nobody ever saw. AnalogFX LARYNX is exactly that: a keyboard evolution of the company’s SER-2020 desktop box, itself a love letter to the Synton Syrinx, the rarely seen monosynth from Synton, another Dutch outfit that is long gone. The first run is capped at 50 units.
What AnalogFX LARYNX Actually Is
If you’ve been following the SER-2020, the engine here will sound familiar, because AnalogFX built LARYNX on that architecture. The oscillator section is two CEM3340 VCOs plus a sub oscillator, a ring modulator and a noise generator. The filter section is where the personality lives: a triple CEM3350 arrangement made up of two resonant peak filters (PEAK 1 and PEAK 2) and a low-pass filter. Two peaks that you can sweep and shape are the whole trick behind vowel-like timbres, and that’s the Syrinx lineage in a nutshell.
New for this version is Formant MODE, which calls up 16 preprogrammed human voice formants. That’s a shortcut for anyone who wants “ahh” and “ooh” territory without patching peak filters by hand. There’s also a digital five-voice Chord MODE, although the synth is a monophonic and duophonic analogue instrument at heart. So the “five voices” are a digital oscillator party trick, not a poly synth.
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The Keyboard Is the Point
The SER-2020 was a compact desktop unit. LARYNX swaps that for a 37-key velocity-sensitive keyboard with channel aftertouch, paired with AnalogFX’s Touch’n’Bend controller. Pressure into the filters is the obvious move for a formant synth: lean on a key and the vowel shifts. MPE support is on board too, which is a slightly odd marriage with a mono/duophonic voice architecture. I’d want to hear how that works in practice before getting excited about it.
Performance tools include an arpeggiator and a 16-step pattern sequencer, with 16 pattern memories and eight scenes of 16 slots each, so you can recall variations live. A stereo delay (DELAY L and DELAY R) rounds out the sound path.
Eurorack Hooks and Connectivity
Front panel CV inputs and outputs make LARYNX usable as a modular voice, with flexible routing so it doubles as a standalone instrument. At the back you get MIDI IN/OUT on DIN-5, USB MIDI over a USB type B port, an expression/sustain/hold pedal input, stereo line outputs and a headphone output.
The Catch
Fifty units. That’s not a product launch so much as a pre-sold collectors’ run, and anyone who loved the idea of a Syrinx-style keyboard may well find the shop sold out by the time they’ve finished reading this. The press materials also don’t spell out whether a second batch is planned, so consider it a limited edition until AnalogFX says otherwise.
There’s another wrinkle. If you already own a SER-2020, you’re paying for a keyboard, aftertouch, a sequencer and a few extras around an engine you know. Whether that’s worth it depends on how much you value playing a vowel sweep with your hand rather than a knob.
Pricing and Availability
AnalogFX LARYNX is on sale now in a first production run of 50 units, built in the Netherlands and sold direct through the AnalogFX online Shop. The press release doesn’t mention a price. Retailer listings put it at €1,249 including 19% VAT, so check the shop for the figure that applies to you.
