Neutral Labs has released Luna, a CMOS-based synth in the style of Stanley Lunetta’s DIY machines from the 1970s.

Here’s what they have to say about it:

“Luna will take you back to a time when digital didn’t mean perfect. It meant raw.

Luna is a love letter to the Lunetta machines of old: Living, breathing organisms built from CMOS logic chips. But where those machines were fragile experiments, Luna is a weaponized instrument of sonic confusion.”

Features:

• 5 oscillators
• logic gates (2 XOR, 2 NOT, 2 AND)
• 5 logic blocks (5-step ring counter,4-bit binary counter, 2 shift registers, 4-channel multiplexer)
• 3 touchpads that generate logic signals
• 3 channels for audio manipulation (low-pass gates with adjustable decay and switchable trigger mode, gain, tilt EQ)
• 13 audio effects that can be freely assigned to 2 effect slots running in series (drive, delay, reverb, 6 filter types, bitcrusher, phaser, chorus, comb filter)
• CV control for effects and 2 oscillators
• MIDI control over 2 oscillators, all 3 low-pass gates, and 3 logic outputs (MIDI TRS A socket)
• 2 sequencers with up to 64 steps, syncable to clock or MIDI
• audio output is headphone compatible
• available as a desktop synth or 42 HP Eurorack module (desktop version comes with a 12-pack of black/gold braided patch cables)

Pricing and Availability:

Luna is available now to pre-order, with a street price of $799 USD.