A recreation of the 70's synthesizer original made by Korg.
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00:00 Hello, it's Adam here from Music Radar. Today I'm taking a very quick look at a new plugin
00:04 from Cherry Audio. This is a recreation of an absolute beast of a 70s synthesizer, the
00:10 PS3300, originally made by Korg in 1977. This is a super rare unit, only about 50 of them
00:17 were manufactured back in the day, and unless you've got about 70 grand in your bank account
00:21 you're unlikely to get your hands on one, but thanks to the folks at Cherry Audio we
00:25 can have a play with a very faithful recreation. I'm not going to go into every single one
00:30 of the controls on here, there's a lot going on. It's kind of your classic 70s synthesizer
00:34 architecture. The plugin here, like the original unit, has three signal generator units, essentially
00:41 kind of synthesizers within their own right, and they can be linked together and patched
00:45 together into this signal mixer section over here. This is a polyphonic unit, which is
00:50 what the P in PS stands for, the polyphonic series, and it has a very impressive range
00:55 of sounds available. I'm going to jump into a few sound examples in a minute, but for
01:00 now let's take a look at a few of the features Cherry Audio have added to this plugin version.
01:05 It comes with a pretty massive range of 360 presets as standard, all in different categories
01:10 here. You've obviously got full MIDI and DAW automation control within it. You've got nice
01:16 little features like setting the transparency of the cables there and selecting the colours
01:20 of them as well, just to keep things nice and organised. And like a lot of Cherry Audio's
01:24 plugins, you've got this focus button as well, which is really useful actually, especially
01:28 on this plugin because there's so many tiny controls, it really lets you get in there
01:31 and see what you're doing. Let's jump in and have a listen to how this thing sounds. There's
01:35 a load of presets there, I'm going to start with this one called Custard Bass.
01:45 Actually kind of classic 1970s moogish fat bass. One thing I do like in the presets here
01:51 is this legacy selection, which is a recreation of the presets or instructions available in
01:57 the original owner's manual. So things like delayed vibrato.
02:01 [Bass]
02:09 And you've also got a selection of a load more modern presets. So let's jump into a
02:36 couple of those now.
02:42 [Bass]
02:50 [Bass]
03:09 [Bass]
03:28 [Bass]
03:46 [Bass]
04:05 [Bass]
04:24 [Bass]
04:43 [Bass]
05:12 A couple of things you might have noticed there that also weren't on the original synth.
05:16 You can see this has got a lot of cables going on and there's a lot of things connected to
05:19 this one connection. So that's something that it allows you to do virtually, is just connect
05:23 as many cables as you want into one thing. And also you've probably heard some effects,
05:29 some built in effects on there. You've got a limiter which is quite useful, a chorus,
05:33 echo and a reverb. Definitely nice for polishing up those sounds.
05:37 So yeah, the PS3300 is out now from Cherry Audio. Check out their website for more info
05:43 and there's a 30 day demo available there as well. It's fairly cheap, I think at the
05:47 moment it's on a discount, a price of $49, usually $69. One thing to say, there is other
05:55 options out there. There's a version by Full Bucket Music, the FP3300 which is free, which
06:01 is obviously a fantastic price. So worth checking that one out as well. But definitely check
06:05 out Cherry Audio's, you can download the demo and have fun with it. Yeah, it's a great sounding
06:09 synth and it's lovely to have that bit of history preserved in that way and it's definitely
06:13 a really faithful recreation.
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