Brume synth
Ranked 4 of 5 synthesizers by recommenders
Recommended as a fun 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5, with a Lua scripting layer; commenters note the voice engines could be faster.
Recommended as a fun 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5, with a Lua scripting layer; commenters note the voice engines could be faster.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fun and fleshed out
“Would be a lot of fun and I could find a lot of uses for something like this”
Comment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5” “Looks really fleshed out and fun though”
Comment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Voice engines could perform better
“the voice engines implementations have a lot of room for performance improvement”
Comment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5”
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The four most recommended other synthesizers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| KORG phase8 Acoustic Synthesizer | 21 | 7 | 75% | 2 | — | — |
| Yamaha DX7 | 8 | 3 | 73% | 5 | — | — |
| Roland TB-303 | 8 | 3 | 73% | 2 | — | — |
| Brume synthThis page | 7 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
| Zynthian | 6 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“you've done a fabulous job!”
“it Just Works on macOS. It builds and runs, with UI.”
“I'm very inspired by the Lua scripting layer, this seems to be just a great solution.”
“Would be a lot of fun and I could find a lot of uses for something like this”
“Looks really fleshed out and fun though”
“the voice engines implementations have a lot of room for performance improvement”
“The demo song sounds fantastic.”
“I wanted another multi-part hardware synth, so I thought it would be fun to see what I could come up with”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.