Nyström HUM 2, announced at SB 2026, is a multi-engine sensory Synthesizer now ready for pre-order and shipping in early November 2026.
At Superbooth 2026, Albert Florén of Nyström Instruments introduced HUM 2, the successor to the HUM generative synth from 2024.
Good news from the developer: the HUM 2 is now available for pre-order and will ship in November.
Feature Highlights
HUM 2 is no ordinary synth; instead, it pursues a generative concept built around a unique tactile playing experience. Albert describes it as a sensory synth where you can use your hands in various ways to manipulate sounds.
To achieve this experience, it features six built-in sensors: distance, light, tilt X/Y, and two touch sensors, mappable to any knob for interactive modulations. It moves away from classic turning knobs and toward interacting with sound using your whole body.
Other features are:
- Multi-timbral engine with three voices, each with an independent synth engine, melodies, and parameters
- Multi-engine: subtractive, FM, wavetables, organ, Karplus-Strong, formant, and experimental ones
- Generative sequencer with patterns or fixed loops with quantization (one sequence for each voice)
- 4 multiwave LFOs
- multi-FX: delay, reverb, and overdrive
- 500 user preset slots
The Nyström HUM 2 is a synthesizer, but thanks to extensive connectivity, it can also be used as a sensor-based MIDI and CV controller. For example, the three CV outputs can be used to control/perform parameters in your modular system.
Connectivity: 3 CV outputs, 2 CV inputs. Sync In/Out, MIDI in/out. Headphone out, L/R line out, and MIDI + Audio over USB
The developer has released a new 10-minute demo showing how to perform with the synth.
Nyström HUM 2 is ready for pre-order from the official website or from retailers for $649/540€ + VAT. Shipping starts in early November 2026.
More info here: Nyström Instruments
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Article from May 12, 2026
Superbooth 2026: Nyström HUM 2 is a multi-timbral, sensory Synthesizer powered by multiple synth engines and generative sequencing.
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 its built-in features, which allow a unique, tactile playing experience.
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 onboard 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 an 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.
Nyström HUM 2 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 releasing 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.
I have the Crum Drum (you could easily mess saying this). Great piece of kit. Looking forward to the… CRUM drum2. Btw, jub Jub is my cat’s name
I agree with JubJUB that it’s better than another generic 2-oscillator clone box, but it still feels very gimmicky. Light sensors can be fun at home or on demo videos but you’d have to make this the centrepiece if you were going to use them live. As for the motion sensors, the standard flay synth design isn’t really set up for that is it? Meanwhile you’d have to suspect there’s a LOT of programming required to set things up to use these gimmicks. Can’t see this going anywhere. But best of luck for trying something different.