Superbooth 2026: Nyström HUM 2 is a multi-timbral, sensory Synthesizer powered by multiple synth engines and generative sequencing.
Update: first look video
Superbooth 2026 starts next week. At the Analog Sweden booth, you’ll see the new SWEN2 analog synth and the CRUM2 drum machine, a collaboration with Nyström. The latter doesn’t have a booth but unveiled a new Synthesizer today.
Nyström HUM 2 is a new multi-timbral Synthesizer with a multi-engine designed around sensory. It’s the evolution of its HUM Synthesizer, released in 2024
Nyström HUM 2
HUM 2 is a multi-timbral digital Synthesizer designed for expressive performance and sonic exploration.
Nyström describes HUM2 as a sensory Synthesizer. This is due to the built-in features, which allow for a very unique and tactile playing experience with the synth.
The synth features three independent voices, each with its own assignable synthesis engines, melodies, and parameters.
You can choose between classic subtractive synthesis, FM, FM pluck, wavetables, organ, and more experimental engines like glitch.
The developer doesn’t specify how deep these go. However, on the hardware side, we can see that each layer has 5 parameters and 2 switches.
Alongside these engines, you also have a modulation engine with four mappable LFOs and a multi-FX processor with independent sends for the delay, reverb, and overdrive.
The Sensory Part
The highlight of Nyström HUM 2 is the ability to interact with these engines in different ways. Each layer has its own generative sequencer with which you can create patterns on the fly or fixed loops with up to 64-step sequencers.
Quantization is available with 17 scale options, so your sequences always sound in tune. A major level-up compared to HUM 1 is the synth’s deeper sensory component. It now features six built-in sensors: distance, light, tilt X/Y, and touch 1/2.
They can be mapped to any knob for interactive modulation. Once mapped, you can interact with the generative sequences in a very expressive way.
On the connection side, it features a L/R line output, a headphone socket, three CV outputs, two CV inputs, and MIDI + audio over USB-C. CV connectivity, for example, can be mapped to the sensors, allowing you to control your analog synths with them.
First Impression
Many instruments can do generative sequences. What few can do is offer the user ways to interact with them expressively. The HUM 2 seems capable of this, and that could be very interesting.
We’ll have to see how versatile it ultimately proves to be, but the Synthesizer concept sounds intriguing. And at first glance, it also seems like a nice evolution of the predecessor.
Nyström Hum 2 availability and price are TBA. The developer estimates to release this fall for a price between 600 and 700€
More information here: Nyström
Yeah, this thing looks pretty cool. I’d so much rather have stuff like this than yet another analog synth based on vintage this or that.