{"id":148968,"date":"2025-05-25T21:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=148968"},"modified":"2025-05-25T21:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:06:06","slug":"frap-tools-magnolia-synthesizer-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/05\/25\/frap-tools-magnolia-synthesizer-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Frap Tools Magnolia Synthesizer Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Magnolia 8 Voice Synthesizer by Frap Tools at Superbooth25 | Interview with Simone | Audio Examples\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y-tCQ-BC-K0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Developer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCI0s4bZCPPoRLSqowQUCTGg\">Christian Halten<\/a> shared this interview with <strong>Simone Fabbri<\/strong> of <strong>Frap Tools<\/strong> about the creation of their new keyboard synthesizer, <strong>Magnolia<\/strong>, described as a &#8216;West Coast Polysynth&#8217;.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Magnolia is one of the most interesting new synths introduced at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/tag\/superbooth-2025\/\">Superbooth 2025<\/a>. Frap Tools showcased two pre-production Magnolia synthesizer keyboards at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Magnolia is an 8-voice analog through-zero FM synthesizer. Options include waveshapers, wavefolders, and analog linear through-zero FM &#8211; features associated with the &#8220;West Coast&#8221; synthesis world &#8211; in addition to analog oscillators and filters. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing and Availability:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frap Tools<\/strong> expects to <a href=\"https:\/\/frap.tools\/magnolia\/\">release<\/a> the <strong>Magnolia<\/strong> synthesizer at the end of summer 2025.<\/p>\n<p>They note that the release version \u201cmay have a more refined interface, it will feature digital effects, and some of the features currently under evaluation may disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Magnolia is one of the most interesting new synths introduced at Superbooth 2025.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/05\/25\/frap-tools-magnolia-synthesizer-interview\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frap Tools Magnolia Synthesizer Interview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,12,1],"tags":[30931,35709,35364],"class_list":["post-148968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","category-keyboard-synthesizers","category-music-news","tag-frap-tools","tag-frap-tools-magnolia","tag-superbooth-2025"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/frap-tools-magnolia-synthesizer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148988,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148968\/revisions\/148988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}