Boo! Or… Bow! Paulee at Magical Synth Adventure has a lineup of picks for the 13 most haunted synths. I’ve gotten an advance look at this one, and the chapters reveal the selections (spoiler — don’t read past the video then). What’s great about this: these are not your average picks. This is definitely not giving you Necco wafers as a treat; it’s the real deal.
00:44 Honourable Mentions
02:55 Waldorf Blofeld
04:34 4MS Metamodule
07:13 Liquid Sky D.Vices
11:00 Roland V-Synth
13:06 Technics WSA-1
15:42 Ensoniq EPS 16+
17:05 Mutable Shruthi-1
19:47 Intermission: Cold War Synths
20:08 Kurzweil K2000
20:59 Korg Nautilus/Kronos
22:49 Casio CTK-1000
23:56 Beast Tek Modules
25:35 Gotharman’s Polyspaze/Zaturn
28:17 Evolution EVS-1
Shruthi-1 is really a callback to a classic, and the instrument that launched Mutable Instruments before the better-known modules. And Liquid Sky D.Vices deserves its own shoutout, as some of the most haunted stuff out there — more on those soon.
Here’s my very deeply in-depth story on the first modules from them:
An update:
And the PPG has also been infected with the haunted weirdness (in the right way):
That said, which synth is haunted for you?
Which synth is your sleep paralysis demon?