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Cherry Audio Mercury 4


Al Coda

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What a great release for vintage hounds. The attention to detail is gratifying. If it was a Jupiter-8, my inner fanboy would probably leap on it. One-oscillators bug me because I have to stack them too often. Its not an issue with the Mercury-4, just a logistical choice by a grumpy old pianist.

 

I recommend their Memorymode highly (the Unison is a thing of awe), but I need a JP-8 for that famous reason: Because.

 

We'll see many reviews, but if you want an ample sound demo, listen for yourself.

 

mercury-4

 

Note the need for Rosetta 2 on newer Macs, but huzzah, that actually works.

 

I am too damned old to be this tickled by a synth company. :wacko:

 "Sometimes not giving up is the most heroic thing you can do."
      ~ "Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom"

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Have you tried Tal-J-8?

 

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Currently, this is the best JP-8 emulation.

 

Much more expensive than Cherry Audio´s plugiins though ...

 

I didn´t expect C. A. coming w/ the JP-4,- but now, when I hear the audio demos, I´m sure they have the code to come up w/ JP-6 / JP-8 later.

 

 

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A.C.

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Lots of good Jupiter-8 emulations out there already. The Jupiter-4 is neglected, and has some similarities to the ProMars, but I think I like the latter slightly better overall. Yet the most famous Duran Duran arpeggios were done on the Jupiter-4.

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Have you tried Tal-J-8?

+1

Currently, this is the best JP-8 emulation.

Much more expensive than Cherry Audio´s plugins though ...

 

Oh yeah, there's the TAL, the Arturia Jupiter 8V, Roland's Cloud version and IKM's Syntronik version. I just wanted for this to be Cherry Audio's. I took up the Memorymode and the ME80 at about the same time. Its not a full holy poly trinity until I include the JP-8.

 

All things considered, the TAL version feels like plenty, especially since my other two classic polys are also from smaller, labor-of-love companies. I welcome its native Apple M1 support.

 

If you make a layered pad from all three... your monitors pop, basically.

 "Sometimes not giving up is the most heroic thing you can do."
      ~ "Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom"

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