Best Synth To Buy in 2025: Comprehensive Guide & Sound Demos

🚨 About to splurge on a new synth? Pump the brakes and tune into this exhaustive guide before you spend a single dime! Welcome to your one-stop-shop for everything synth in 2025, where we break down the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of the synthesizer world.

What’s Inside:

From Noob to Pro: The best synths for beginners to gods of the keys!
Deal or No Deal: Which synths give you the bang for your buck without breaking the bank.
The Crème de la Crème: High-end synths that are basically the muscle cars of the synth world.
Tiny But Mighty: Small form-factor synths proving size isn’t everything.
Weird and Wonderful: The most innovative and most 'who asked for this?' synths of the year.
Hear Them to Believe Them: Sound demos that speak louder than words—recorded by yours truly or snagged directly from the synth lords at their respective YouTube channels.

Synthesizers Covered:

Arturia Minifreak, Arturia PolyBrute 12, Arturia Astrolab
ASM Hydrasynth Deluxe, Hydrasynth Explorer
Behringer UB-Xa, UB-Xa D, Pro 800
Cherry Audio Atomika
Dreadbox Hades Reissue
GForce Software IconDrum
Intellijel Cascadia
Korg Opsix Rackmount MKii, multi/poly, Modwave, Prologue
Melbourne Instruments Delia
Modal Cobalt 8M
Moog Muse, Mavis
Oberheim TEO-5
Pittsburgh Modular Taiga
Roland JX-08, JD-08
Tal Pha
Strap in and get ready to embark on a deep dive that could very well change your synth journey forever. Or at least make you sound cooler at parties.

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0:00 Intro
0:28 🏆 Best Beginner Synth
02:50 Value Analog Monosynth
04:11 Value Semi-Modular Analog Synth
06:04 Small Semi-Modular Analog Synth
07:47 🏆 Best Overall Semi-Modular Analog Synth
09:01 High End Semi-Modular Analog Synth
11:08 🏆 Best FM Synth
13:54 Small Virtual Analog Synth
16:14 🏆 Best Overall Virtual Analog Synth
19:08 Value Wavetable Synth
21:46 High End Wavetable Synth
24:13 🏆 Best Value Hybrid Synth
26:13 High End Hybrid Synth
28:58 Value MPE Synth
30:51 Small MPE Synth
32:08 🏆 Best Overall Poly-AT Synth
35:40 Value Analog Polysynth
39:05 Small Analog Polysynth
39:54 🏆 Best Overall Analog Polysynth
42:48 High End Analog Polysynths
48:34 Value Vintage Recreations
52:29 Value Analog Plugin Synth
57:30 🏆 Most Authentic Analog Plugin Synth
1:00:53 Most Overpriced Synth
1:04:47 Most IDGAF Synth
1:06:04 Synth I'm Manifesting ✨
1:10:01 Most Innovative Synth
1:11:47 🏆 Most Slept On Synth
1:17:40 Advice on Buying Synths