Superbooth 2026: AUXY Svensson 49 is a new playful hybrid Synthesizer designed around loops developed in collaboration with Cuckoo.
For the past few weeks, Swedish musician and YouTuber Cuckoo has been teasing a new instrument he’s heavily involved in developing. Now, just one week before the start of Superbooth 2026, the secret is out.
The company is called AUXY, and with them, he’s developed Svensson 49, a new loop-based Synthesizer that will premiere at Superbooth 2026.
AUXY Svensoon 49
AUXY—The name is probably familiar to many iOS users. The same company developed the Auxy Studio groovebox app, which is still available and regularly updated.
Now, the Swedish developers at AUXY are venturing into the hardware world for the first time with the Svensson 49. Cuckoo described it as a clutter-free, easy-to-approach, lovely-to-use, high-quality playing experience. It’s a Synthesizer, but not a very traditional one.
It starts with a white interface that’s very minimalist, with a few color accents. It has the charm of retro toy keyboards, but in a more modern, bigger form.
Six knobs, various buttons, a tiny screen, and a large grill on the right side with a built-in speaker form the user interface.
No swarms of knobs to turn or sliders to push. A different approach to an instrument. It’s made out of a metal body, manufactured in Germany.
The keybed is a 49-key semi-weighted, velocity-sensitive FATAR keyboard. It doesn’t seem to have aftertouch, or at least it wasn’t mentioned.
Hybrid Sounds By Cuckoo
Svensson 49 offers four sound categories: drums, bass, bread, and butter; each of these includes a variety of sounds designed by Cuckoo.
The engine uses a mix of samples and wavetables to generate sounds that range from acoustic to synthetic, with a special focus on everything in between. Synthesis access is not available via the keyboard.
It’s unknown whether an editor will be added later, where you can build your own sounds. However, the keyboard offers four parameters that function like macro parameters: tone, mood, and shape.
Depending on the selected sound, they can have a different effect on the sound. As you can see, this isn’t your typical sound-shaping synth.
Loop Experience
With AUXY Svensson 49, it’s all about playing, not sound shaping. The instrument’s centerpiece is a built-in, playful looper. It’s dead-simple to operate. Simply select a sound, press the loop button, and you’re off. It records your loops and plays them back instantly.
Loops can also be deleted without navigating through menus using the Clear button. Having four sound categories doesn’t mean you are limited to four layers or loops. You can easily experiment with multiple loops per layer.
And the loops can be as long as you want, and can have as many layers as you want. A lovely, clever feature is the history function, which allows you to travel back in time and return to previously created loops.
Press shift and the arrows, and you can instantly call them back, even in a performance. Like a traditional looper, you can also mute individual layers at any time. And to keep you on the grid, you can use a correction tool that can be deactivated.
Connectivity
The built-in speaker is custom-made by Swedish speaker maker Ingvar Öhman. It’s surprisingly loud and lets you play so other people can hear without additional gear. Perfect for living room jams.
On the connection side, it has a stereo output on 6.3mm mono sockets, a headphone socket, a sustain pedal input, and two USB ports: a USB-A host for class-compliant audio and MIDI devices and a USB-C for power and data.
AUXY Svensson 49 First Impression
Among the many new synthesizers being released in the coming days, this instrument certainly stands out. Especially because synthesis isn’t the main focus, and there aren’t rows of knobs to tweak. I find it exciting that it prioritizes playing over sound design.
AUXY Svensoon 49 will be available soon. The price is not fully locked in, but the developers expected it to be around $999/899€. Preorders for the first limited batch will start soon. The first units will ship to customers in early fall 2026.
More information here: AUXY
Looks like those are full size quarter-inch output jacks in the pic.
yes, stereo connectivity on 6.3mm mono outputs. Error fixed
I really don’t see the value at 900 quid.
Might as well get an Astrolab 37+ an Arturia keystep pro/novation sl mk3/erae2
Maybe it has a good Fatar keybed although the never published which type it actually is and it doesn’t even have a MIDI DIN out for some weird reason. Hardly any controls and the loop functionality is as basic as one could imagine.
And all this been marketed as something we should thrive for and throw money add. Screw that bs! Seriously are we trying to dumb down the synth community even further? Basically your first Casio keyboard from decades ago offers more than this. To be fair that probably doesn’t have the Fatar keys and boomy mono speaker. But hey it’s hyped by Cuckoo so probably no real criticism coming from the populair websites.
so it’s a basic Rompler with an inaccessible synth engine but with unpredictable macro controls and a looper? to me it’s like a Novation Circuit but with an expensive case, speaker and keyboard. like someone else said, the very cheap Casio sand Yamaha arranger type keyboard might run laps around it.
Still, not useless but just expensive for what it is in paper (Rompler sketch maker). I guess we’ll have to see if we can get access to the synth engine via an app or what other features they mention in release date.
It’s a beautiful, playful synth – designed to get you playing and jamming outside the box. I love how it makes things intuitive and exploratory, designed to catch serendipity and the moment, rather than complex workflows and painstaking iterations. Not for everyone for sure, but as someone who on the one hand has a lot of tools that have depth and complexity I’m genuinely excited about something that flips the balance towards sketching quick ideas and getting them down fast without clicking and reverting to the DAW until later.
The easy to use concept is intriguing!
However:
In the FAQ it says: “Does it have octave switches? No.”
So you are locked into the 4 octaves the keyboard has? Really, or am i missing something?
They have to implement switching the octaves somehow, maybe with a shift key combo, oterhwise this design flaw will make it totally unintresting for many.
It’s quite the unappealing and gimmicky product being promoted here by a synth-influencer YouTuber. There is yet symmetry to the universe.