Amongst the many midlife crises I've stacked up in recent years - most of which have been accelerated by the pandemic - is a growing fascination with the world of synths. It started with one of Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operators, gathered momentum with a Volca then became a thing with a couple of Roland's boutique models - and next thing you know I'm driving a van to Tunbridge Wells to pick up a mint example of Casio's 1985 CZ-5000. Given how it's now hard to move in my shed for it all, it might have started to become a bit of a problem.
I've yet to let modular synths get their hooks into me, with their patch bays offering up a tinkerer's paradise and a surefire way to overnight bankruptcy, but my wallet's grateful that someone's stepped in with a facsimile of the whole thing in The Signal State - a brilliantly tactile puzzler that turns the tangle of cables and muddle of modular units into a challenging, Zachtronics-esque game of logic.