The Swarmatron

And this is #1 on every 5yo's Christmas (can we say that word?) list and #1 on every mother's "Ain't no way" list.

the guy that said it looked like a 50's thing was absolutely right. often older stuff becomes trendy, so maybe it will catch onfor a while.

Oooooo, sweet! All Analog, dual ribbon controllers, Control Voltage In/Out, lots of knobs for real-time Oscillator, Filter & Amp tweaking, and I like the idea of the 8 oscillator slaved together but tunable over a select spectrum via a single Span Control knob. The Dewan boys sound really interesting in their own right:

"Dewanatron"

I had a similar idea for a guitar effect: a Gate-triggered Sample-and-Hold goes into a splitter amp (I was thinking 1-to-20, but 1-to-8 does sound more doable; maybe make the amount of splits selectable with a control knob? anyway...), each signal is pitch shifted up or down, with knobs to select the general pitch shift & width of the frequency spread, then each signal goes into individual Auto-Wah/Auto-Tremolo/Vibrato effects, with knobs to adjust the central frequency & frequency range for the LFO driving the filter & volume shifting, then mixing the results down to a stereo signal with an adjustable cut control so you dial it back from massively overdriven down to typical guitar output and lower.