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Feb 12, 2024December 6, 2024

Adam Szabo Viper 🧻🧻🧻💩

The Virus is Dead. Long live the Virus. In news just to hand Access, maker of the Virus synthesiser, has announced that the hardware is no more. The chips are…

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Dec 17, 2023

Blipblox After Dark 🧻🧻🧻🧻

On the base of this device its says ‘toy’. I’ll follow their lead, although I’ve owned non-toys less sophisticated than this. This is the third iteration made by Playtime Engineering…

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Dec 14, 2023September 21, 2024

U-He DIVA and HIVE 🧻🧻🧻

DIVA There was a time when DIVA was one of the few software synthesisers to sound like ‘the real thing’. In fact several of ‘the real things’ and furthermore ‘real…

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Dec 6, 2023December 6, 2024

Novation PEAK 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Revisited 6th Dec 2024 Perhaps due to the woody bits at the ends of the box it’s taken a while for the PEAK’s second hand price to come down to…

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Sep 20, 2023October 19, 2023

Rob Papen eXplorer-8 🧻🧻

Thanks to Dean G for a temporary look at this suite. I was not keen to buy it, after a small amount of access I am even less keen. It…

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Aug 29, 2023December 18, 2023

Korg minilogue xd 🧻🧻🧻🧻

It wouldn’t be Korg if it wasn’t kind of weird. Once upon a time Korg released a little toy called the Monotron (2010), which caused much excitement in the troops.…

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Jun 30, 2023December 6, 2024

Death to the ladder. We need new filters.

I hear much about oscillators: the unstable VCOs of yore, the digital waves of the 90’s, wavetables, geo-blends, samples… so many great ideas – but this luxury of waveforms is…

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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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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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