Superbooth 2025: Paul of PWM previewed the M30 project, a new 16-part multi-timbral digital wavetable Synthesizer for 2026.
The British company PWM, founded by Paul Whittington, launched its first Synthesizer, Malevolent, in 2021. This is an analog semi-modular synth. This was followed in 2023 by the Mantis, a hybrid Synthesizer with digital oscillators and analog filters à la OSCar in collaboration with Chris Huggett.
Paul from PWM brought a mysterious new synth (project M30) to Superbooth 2025. It will be a digital synth that completes its first roadmap.
PWM M30 System
The new Synthesizer, under development (project M30), had not yet been displayed. However, the first details of the new PWM Synthesizer and the first sounds have been revealed.
Paul Whittington states that the sounds previewed at Superbooth 2025 is based on their DSP synth system M30. It hasn’t been decided whether it will be a keyboard or a desktop synth. The name M30 will also change that just the development name.
What is known, however, is that it will be the first all-digital PWM Synthesizer with 16-part multi-timbral capabilities.
The exact number of voices hasn’t been finalized yet, but they promise that the DSP engine can handle many voices, almost limitless, but always depending on the processor. With 16 parts multi-timbral, I don’t want to have one voice per part.
At its core, it will be a powerful wavetable Synthesizer engine with Serum wavetables import, and samples/multi-samples (PCM). Paul said you can easily import samples, and the engine will automatically adapt them.
There will also be a pattern-based sequencer, turning it into a groovebox Synthesizer.
First Impression
I’m looking forward to seeing what the device will look like. The sounds already sound very interesting, and 16-part multi-timbral sounds like many possibilities.
The new PWM (M30) Synthesizer availability and price are TBA. Paul estimates a release in 2026.
More information here: PWM
Well I hope they put a big iPad Pro sized screen on it, otherwise the synth experts who comment on this site will dismiss it without a second look.
Manufacturers providing reasonable screens to make sound design and playing the instrument a delight instead of a chore. What a wild idea, to haved designers think about the users of their machines, instead of what looks pretty.
Not everyone wants their instrument to look like a lame ipad. Udo Super Gemini would have been ruined by a color screen. If the great vintage synths didn’t need them, we still don’t. 3rd wave looks so damn lame.
Anybody know what is the helmet cable holder ?
Thanks 🙂
It’s Zardonic’s helm, he is sound designer for GForce Software and other hardware and software brands :
Thanks Tom 🙂