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Jul 11, 2023July 15, 2023

E-Mu Proteus 2000 🧻🧻🧻

Here comes the new bass same as the old bass. In the beginning was the 1981 Emulator which was cheaper than the Fairlight, but eventually too expensive against the AKAI.…

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Jul 6, 2023August 8, 2023

Izotope Iris 2 🧻🧻💩

File under Where Are They Today? I don’t actually remember there ever being an Iris 1, but I recall v2 coming out with much fanfare. It included a decent sample…

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May 10, 2023February 10, 2024

DS Audio Thorn 🧻🧻🧻🧻

I think that Thorn has not been a smash hit. It had accolades on first release in 2018 but has not been prominent since – the fate of many spectral…

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Mar 30, 2023April 4, 2023

Roland SH-4d 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Roland. Wake up.Huh? What time is it? Is it 1983 … 84? Where am I?You need to wake up. You’ve been asleep for a long time. Everything has changed. WAKE…

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Jan 27, 2023May 16, 2025

Arturia MiniFreak and MiniFreak-V 🧻🧻🧻💩

It was my fault for pre-ordering the MicroFreak based just on the advertising. It did everything that was promised but when it came down to it that wasn’t enough. Sum…

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Dec 3, 2022April 3, 2023

Softube Modular et al. 🧻/🧻🧻🧻

Here we are at the end of another Black Friday, a little poorer, a little shame-faced. Just a little, as greed has fed on less human flesh than usual. I…

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Nov 14, 2022April 2, 2024

xils-lab XILS4 🧻 and PolyKBIII 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Warning. One of these things is stupidly large. I have never warmed to the VCS3. I’ve tried the real thing, I’ve tried several emulations. At no point have I ever…

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Nov 14, 2022September 26, 2024

Cherry Audio Originals

This page will hold Cherry Audio’s original (and much more interesting) software titles. It is in progress – please stay tuned. Their replica instruments can be found here. Sines 🧻🧻🧻💩…

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Nov 13, 2022May 18, 2024

GForce ImpOSCar3, M-Tron Pro, Orchestron

Orchestron 🧻🧻 Let’s just start with the Orchestron. A shitty optical disc based sample playback machine that went nowhere EXCEPT that Kraftwerk bought one and lathered it all over their…

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Oct 11, 2022December 11, 2024

Integra-7 Ultra-yacht 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Why seven? Is it sins? Dwarves? I don’t see sevens in the design. There wasn’t an Integra-6. Or was it like RoboCop – took a few goes? It’s the top…

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