The synth is a collaborative effort with celebrated British synth designer Chris Huggett.
Newly announced by Bristol’s PWM, the Mantis is a hybrid synth loosely inspired by the 1970s EDP Wasp, using digital oscillators, multi-mode filters and multi-stage VCAs to create a duophonic architecture.
The Mantis is a collaborative effort between PWM’s Paul Whittington and celebrated synth designer Chris Huggett, the man responsible for British classics like the Wasp, OSC OSCar and Novation Supernova. Huggett worked on the Mantis’s mathematically generated digital oscillators and its analogue signal path before sadly passing away in 2020. Whittington talks about his relationship with Huggett and the origin of the Mantis in the video above.
The PWM Mantis is available to pre-order now, priced at £1,349.
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