FIRST LOVE - Information for retailers
Perfect synergy between touchscreen and tactile controls; FIRST LOVE is an exploratory synthesizer that rewards fearless curiosity. Portable, standalone, multitimbral and polyphonic, FIRST LOVE takes you off the grid, both in your location and sonic possibilities. Including everything you need to create music, a low barrier of entry and a high ceiling for exploration brings you into instant creative flow anywhere, anytime.
FIRST LOVE LIVE SESSIONS
Using prototypes of FIRST LOVE students from the Iceland University of the Arts and the LOVE Synthesizers team performed live following a short workshop
Where to Buy
FIRST LOVE will be available through select retailers worldwide, ahead of our September 2026 launch.
Current Retail Partners
Europe & UK — Schneidersladen, Berlin
US — Perfect Circuit
Iceland — Tónastöðin, Reykjavík
Direct — lovesynthesizers.com
Interested in Carrying FIRST LOVE?
We work with Sonic Sales for distribution across Europe, UK, and the rest of the world outside the US. Please reach out to the relevant contact below:
Germany, BeNeLux, Austria
Michael Menze — 0049-151-59899700 — michael@sonic-sales.de
France
Eric Pascal — 0033-607377726 — eric@sonic-sales.eu
Portugal
Ingmar Koch — 00351-925-17581 — liquidskyberlin@gmail.com
Rest of Europe (excl. UK)
Jürgen Blome — 0049-178-3554122 — juergen@sonic-sales.de
Marketing
Jonas Kemmler — 0049-159-01034848 — jonas@sonic-sales.de
Inhouse Sales & Marketing
Sven Pritzlaff — 0049-5204-9247732 — sven@sonic-sales.de
For general inquiries: sales@lovesynthesizers.com
Key features
FIRST LOVE WILL BE AVAILABLE 2026
HIGHLY EXPRESSIVE SOUND SHAPING
Quickly design sounds with custom FM connections, expressive wave shaping and morphing envelopes. Add effects and modulation. Express yourself with tactile controls and a touch screen.
MULTITIMBRAL & POLYPHONIC
Play up to 4 different instruments, polyphonic and monophonic, simultaneously. Combine instruments and midi channels for multitimbral patches.
CREATE YOUR UNIQUE INSTRUMENT
Customize your instrument to your compositions. Play all four timbres and quickly switch between musical scales, quantized or microtonal. Tune your own musical scales to play along with instruments from anywhere in the world.
RIFF YOUR SEQUENCES & ARPEGGIATE
Combine notes and silences in any order. Mix different timbres and play them on pressure sensitive pads, the touch screen and the looper all at once. Set your rate and arpeggiate with a highly versatile arpeggiator.
MIDI LOOPS & ARRANGEMENTS
Create a loop. Multiply. Bounce. Overdub. Merge or add to the end or beginning. Arrange and bounce. Play in your own groove or set up a quantized backbeat. Expressively morph and shape the sound.
SOUND ENGINE
4 PARTS MULTITIMBRAL
POLYPHONIC
MONOPHONIC
WAVE SHAPING & FM
FAST ENVELOPE EDITING
AMP AND MORPH ENVELOPES
STANDALONE
VERSATILE ARPEGGIATOR
RIFF SEQUENCER
SCALE BUILDING
MICROTONAL TUNER
LIVE LOOPING
QUANTIZED QUICK LOOPS
LOOP ARRANGEMENTS
FX AND MOD MATRIX
POWERFUL EFFECTS
FLEXIBLE MODULATION
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL MODULATION SOURCES
MULTIPLE MODULATION DESTINATIONS
CONNECTIONS
¼" TRS STEREO HEADPHONE OUT
¼" TS L&R LINE OUT
DIN5 MIDI IN
DIN5 MIDI THRU
MIDI SYNC
⅛" SYNC IN AND OUT
1/2/4/24 PPQ
USB-C MIDI DEVICE CONNECTION
USB-C POWER AND PC CONNECTION
OUTPUT ROUTING
STEREO LINES AND HEADPHONE
4 MONO OUT
BUILT-IN SPEAKERS
BATTERY OPTION
COMPARTMENT FOR 4x18650 LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES
UI COMPONENTS
SMOOTH AND RESPONSIVE ROTATING ENCODERS
SOFT-TOUCH PUSH-BUTTONS
PRESSURE SENSITIVE PADS WITH VELOCITY AND AFTERTOUCH
Testimonials
The LOVE synth sets a new standard in human interaction with sound synthesis, as it is combining classic synthesis methods with a groundbreaking user experience
Kurt Uenala
This instrument offers unprecedented ways to explore the sonic world of an FM synthesizer, effectively and beautifully solving one of the most difficult interface problems of FM synthesizers
Úlfur Hansson
Kári has designed a uniquely user-friendly interface for FM synthesis, a sound mixing technology notorious for being difficult to master.
Þórhallur Magnússon
It could be said that the FIRST LOVE interface is the first to make FM synthesizers accessible and understandable to users.
Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson
I was blown away by how clever these people made FM
Jeremy Blake
Fantastic visual response, really brilliant, beautiful
Nick Batt
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