Cherry Audio today introduced Synth Stack 4, the 2023 update to their virtual instrument collection, which now features 22 software synthesizers.
Synth Stack 4, available for macOS & Windows, includes 19 emulations of classic vintage synthesizers, three original synthesizers, a modular synthesizer platform, and nearly 8,000 presets.
Synth Stack 4 includes:
- Voltage Modular Core + Electro Drums, a collection of modular madness including 120 modules and over 600 presets.
- DCO-106, a recreation of the Juno-106 polysynth of the 80’s.
- CA2600, a powerful, self-contained duophonic synthesizer inspired by the ARP 2600 synthesizer.
- Surrealistic MG-1 Plus Synthesizer, a recreation of the Moog MG-1 synthesizer, sold in Radio Shack stores in 80s.
- Polymode, inspired by the Moog Polymoog synthesizer, one of the world’s first polyphonic synthesizers.
- Eight Voice, an emulation of the Oberheim Eight Voice, one of the world’s rarest and most desirable vintage instruments.
- PS-20, a polyphonic take on Korg’s MS-20.
- Memorymode, based upon the Memorymoog, one of the very best-sounding polyphonic programmable analog synthesizers of the 80s.
- Mercury-4, an emulation of the Roland Jupiter-4.
- Quadra, a reimagining of the 1978 ARP Quadra.
- Dreamsynth, a “tribute to the celebrated hybrid analog/digital synthesizers of the mid-to-late 1980s”.
- Miniverse, a virtual emulation of the granddaddy of all portable synthesizers.
- Lowdown recreates the sounds of “the most legendary dual-oscillator bass pedal synth ever made.”
- Elka-X, a virtual synthesizer based upon the Synthex, a rare Italian analog synth manufactured by ELKA in the early eighties.
- Sines, an original polyphonic synthesizer that utilizes diverse waveshaping methods to bend pure waveforms into variable and complex shapes.
- GX-80, Cherry Audio’s visionary flagship synthesizer that combines the sound and features of the Yamaha GX-1 “Dream Machine” and its descendant, the CS-80.
- New! Mercury-6, a recreation of the Jupiter-6 analog synthesizer.
- New! Novachord + Solovox, a collection emulating two early electronic instruments that were precursors of modern synthesizers.
- New! Octave Cat, a recreation of The CAT duophonic synthesizer, by Octave Electronics in 1976.
- New! Harmonia, an original from Cherry Audio, designed to easily create rich, evolving polyphonic tones.
- New! PS-3300, an emulation of the rare semi-modular analog polyphonic synthesizer released by KORG in 1977.
- New! Pro Soloist, an updated take on the preset-based analog synth, originally released by ARP Instruments in 1972.
Pricing and Availability:
Synth Stack 4 is available now at the introductory price of $299 USD through December 5th, 2023 (normally $399).
I have most of these since they have been on a few humble bundles lately and as far as VSTs go they do sound really good. The mercury and eight voice get used a LOT.
Cherry Audio deserves the Best-of-Show award. The only thing they don’t cover is acoustic piano and if you drop a decent sample into Harmonia, you can have at least part of one in there. $299 doesn’t seem bad for a prog stack that would reach above your head if it was hardware!
Cool. +6 new nice sounding synths. I dreaming of installation manager like on Arturia, NI to install, update them all at one.
Mitchell from Cherry Audio here – we’ve finished a really nifty installation manager called Cherry Sync. It’s currently in limited-release, that is, we want to make sure it works 100% before we go full-hog, but it’s very straightforward, easy to use, and makes light work of installing (or uninstalling) our titles en masse.
@maximborov Just released… hereyago! https://cherryaudio.com/products/sync-preview
Very cool. Works like a charm for me on Windows 10.
One feature request – show what’s new on Updates tab. What’s new from DCO-106 1.2 to 1.4?