{"id":153425,"date":"2026-05-13T20:21:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=153425"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:21:32","slug":"melancholytron-synth-available-now-only-makes-melancholic-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/05\/13\/melancholytron-synth-available-now-only-makes-melancholic-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Melancholytron Synth Available Now, Only Makes Melancholic Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GESPR\u00c4CHSKONZERT (Lecture Concert): FRAKnoise at SUPERBOOTH26\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qtIJH66u1SM?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>At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/tag\/superbooth-2026\/\">Superbooth 2026<\/a>, <strong>FRAKnoise<\/strong> showcased the <strong>Melancholytron<\/strong>, described as &#8220;a synthesizer that always sounds melancholic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s inspired by the Mellotron, but really leans into the melancholic sound.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what they have to say about it:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;The Melancholytron project is first and foremost a book about melancholy. About the quiet, reflective emotion that has accompanied artists, thinkers, and musicians for centuries. Melancholy is not simply sadness. It is a more ambiguous state: a bittersweet awareness of time passing, of beauty touched by loss, of moments that cannot quite be held.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Alongside this book you will find a synthesizer, also called the Melancholytron. It was created as a companion to these pages. Rather than explaining melancholy, it allows you to hear it , and perhaps to play it. Each sound in the instrument is an attempt to capture a particular shade of this elusive feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing and Availability:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Melancholytron<\/strong> is <a href=\"https:\/\/melancholytron.com\/\">available<\/a> to pre-order at the project site for \u20ac 625.00 without keyboard and \u20ac 825.00 for the keyboard version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s inspired by the Mellotron, but really leans into the melancholic sound.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/05\/13\/melancholytron-synth-available-now-only-makes-melancholic-sounds\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Melancholytron Synth Available Now, Only Makes Melancholic Sounds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148962,"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":[12,29],"tags":[35745,36311,35841,30615],"class_list":["post-153425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-keyboard-synthesizers","category-strange","tag-fraknoise","tag-fraknoise-melancholytron","tag-superbooth-2026","tag-synthesizers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/melancholy-synthesizer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153425","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=153425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153427,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153425\/revisions\/153427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}