NTS-1 : 20 minutes to build, 15 minutes to start tweaking and playing

Although tests and Youtube are unanimously very positive, its always a gamble when you were unable to audit the product yourself. I Due to the lockdown I was unable to visit a synth/music shop, and not willing to wait because it was intended for a present, I trusted my intuition based on the specs.

Building this synth is very straightforward. After a quick look at the owners manual and scrolling through a YouTube tutorial, you will be ready to play and tweak the sound to your hearts content. The sound quality is amazing for this price and the extendibility is endless due to NTS Digital Librarian. Installing the NTS Digital Librarian and uploading different new oscillators, modulators, effects and reverbs is straight forward.

One small downside, you want to connect to it via MIDI be sure you van a MIDI to TRS type A connector cable, Arturia comes with type B and cannot be used. However routing the MIDI signal via USB and DAW solves the problem.