NEKTAR Bolt $99
Subtractive synthesis has long been the most established and prevalent form of synthesis. Like a good pair of well-worn shoes, it provides the user with a familiar environment, which can be taken from one synth to the next.
Bolt, however, is billed as a Harmonics Synthesiser, which gives us a pretty fair clue about the way it operates. In essence, Bolt is not so much about starting with a waveform which is full of harmonic content and subtracting harmonics from the top down (as we tend to with a low-pass filter), as it is starting from the bottom upward and opening up the harmonic content until we have what we need. So far so good,
