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A recreation of the 70's synthesizer original made by Korg.

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00:00Hello, Saddam here from Music Radar. Today I'm taking a very quick look at a new

00:04plugin from Cherry Audio. This is a recreation of an absolute beast of a

00:0970s synthesizer, the PS3300, originally made by Korg in 1977. This is a super

00:16rare unit, only about 50 of them were manufactured back in the day and unless

00:20you've got about 70 grand in your bank account you're unlikely to get your

00:22hands on one, but thanks to the folks at Cherry Audio we can have a play with a

00:26very faithful recreation. I'm not going to go into every single one of the

00:30controls on here, there's a lot going on. It's kind of your classic 70s synthesizer

00:34architecture. The plugin here, like the original unit, has three signal generator

00:39units, essentially kind of synthesizers within their own right and they can be

00:44linked together and patched together into this signal mixer section over here. This

00:48is a polyphonic unit, which is what the P in the PS stands for the polyphonic

00:53series, and it has a very impressive range of sounds available. I'm going to

00:57jump into a few sound examples in a minute, but for now let's take a look at

01:01a few of the features Cherry Audio have added to this plugin version. It comes with a

01:05pretty massive range of 360 presets as standard, all in different categories

01:10here. You've also got full MIDI and DAW automation control within it. You've got nice

01:16little features like setting the transparency of the cables there and

01:19selecting the colors of them as well, just keep things nice and organized.

01:22And like a lot of Cherry Audio's plugins, you've got this focus button as well, which

01:27is really useful actually, especially on this plugin because there's so many tiny

01:30controls, it really lets you get in there and see what you're doing. Let's jump in and

01:34have a listen to how this thing sounds. There's a load of presets there. I'm going to start

01:37with this one called Custard Bass.

01:38Actually kind of classic 1970s Moogish fat bass. One thing I do like in the presets here is this

01:51legacy selection, which is a recreation of the presets or instructions available in the original

01:58owner's manual. So things like delayed vibrato.

02:05And you've also got a selection of a load more modern presets, which is a

02:35one of those. So let's jump into a couple of those now.

02:37So let's jump into a couple of those now.

02:42We'll be back.

02:44We'll be back.

02:52Thanks.

02:56We'll be back.

05:01A couple of things you might have noticed there that also went on the original synth.

05:16You can see this has got a lot of cables going on and there's a lot of things connected to this one connection.

05:21So that's something that it allows you to do virtually is just connect as many cables as you want into one thing.

05:26And also you've probably heard some built-in effects on there.

05:30You've got a limiter which is quite useful, a chorus, echo and a reverb.

05:34Definitely nice for polishing up those sounds.

05:37So yeah, the PS3300 is out now from Cherry Audio.

05:41Check out their website for more info and there's a 30-day demo available there as well.

05:46It's fairly cheap.

05:46I think at the moment it's on a discount, a price of $49, usually $69.

05:52One thing to say, there is other options out there.

05:56There's a version by Full Bucket Music, the FP3300, which is free, which is obviously a fantastic price.

06:02So worth checking that one out as well.

06:04But definitely check out Cherry Audios.

06:06You can download the demo and have fun with it.

06:08Yeah, it's a great sounding synth and it's lovely to have that bit of history preserved in that way.

06:12And it's definitely a really faithful recreation.

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