Trident Mk.3, PolyBrute 12 and e7: Magic Numbers – Sounds and Presets
4,3 / 5,0 | A tasty bag of treats for your synths this week, including sounds for the latest Cherry Audio Trident Mk.III, Arturia PolyBrute 12 and GS Music’s e7.
Sounds and Presets
Momentum Pack for Cherry Audio Trident Mk.III by James Dyson
As is the way with Cherry Audio, no sooner have they released a new plugin, there’s a bumper pack of additional presets available for it, courtesy of James Dyson. And as usual, the pack serves to demonstrate the full capabilities of the new instrument, this time being the Trident Mk.III.
Cherry Audio’s Trident Mk.III is a superb recreation and enhancement of KORG’s criminally underrated Trident polysynth that combined three engines to deliver a big sound. Momentum really makes use of these engines to deliver big, fat, analog tones.
The Trident Mk.III has loads of new additions that the original hardware didn’t have, such as a powerful sequencer and arpeggiator, as well as lots of effects. Momentum exploits these, and it serves as an excellent demonstration of what the original can do as well as what those clever people at Cherry Audio are able to add to that.
You can buy Momentum for Cherry Audio’s Trident directly from the Cherry Audio store for just $9.99!
Polymorphia for Arturia PolyBrute 12 by Arturia
What can I say about the Arturia PolyBrute 12 that I haven’t already said? It is still my favourite analog polysynth of all time. It remains the most expressive analog keyboard I have ever owned, and I still think that this, in time, will be regarded as highly as the Yamaha CS-80 is today.
It feels to me like it has been around for a long time, but it’s only 18 months since we first set our eyes and ears on Arturia’s flagship. In that time, nothing has come close to it in terms of sound, expression and sheer presence. It looks as good as it sounds.
Arturia are still putting out new sounds for it, and we now have a new bank called Polymorphia, available in the sounds store for a grand total of zero bucks! Arturia have a long tradition of supporting their hardware synths with sumptuous free banks, and this is no exception.
With a large number of these sounds taking advantage of the PolyBrute 12’s extensive performance and expression capabilities, this bank is full of some amazing sounds that benefit from features like the FullTouch keyboard, ribbon controller and Morphee pad.
PolyBrute 12 owners can simply visit the Arturia site to grab the pack and register it. They can then install it via the PolyBrute Connect app, too. These sounds should also work on the original 6-voice PolyBrute, but without the FullTouch features.
Septenary Vol.1 for GS Music e7 by Scott McAuley Sounds
Argentina is not well known for its electronic music scene, nor its synth manufacturing base, and yet, emerging from the Pampas is the remarkable e7 from GS Music. If you’re lucky enough to own one, or have been able to get your hands on one, you will know what a beast it is.
This powerful desktop unit has seven voices of polyphony and is also four-part multitimbral. It packs a sonic punch and I’ve even heard some people say it can out-MemoryMoog a MemoryMoog! High praise indeed, not least because it is Guido’s first commercial synth!
Scott McAuley bought his e7, not expecting it to make such an impact on him, but he grew incredibly fond of it, incredibly quickly, and now, he has added a new sound bank for it to his already burgeoning website.
Septenary contains 64 new sounds for the e7 that cover all the common categories and bears all the hallmarks of Scott’s other soundbanks. These are punchy, full of character and really show off the e7’s best side. You can buy the pack from Scott’s website for £25.99.
Splice Instrument Plugin by Splice
Not so much a bank of presets, although it comes with a more than healthy amount built in, Splice are clearly trying to entice new customers in with their new Splice Instrument, as well as further make use of their recent acquisition of Spitfire Audio.
Splice Instrument is free to download and comes with over 500 presets baked right in. Splice claim that they will drop new, premium sounds into their Instrument every month and, naturally, you can access all your existing Splice content too.
And now it seems that the Splice Instrument will be the new home of Spitfire’s Lab collection. This extensive library of unique and curated sounds has been much loved for many years, but has, in this correspondent’s opinion, faltered in recent years.
Labs was always meant to be a collection of tasters, a gateway into the Spitfire world, from which they could entice you further to invest in their excellent, paid-for content. It started well, but in recent times it began to seem a bit tired and unloved, introducing paid-for content in the form of Labs+.
This seemed to go against the original ethos of the concept, and many people just stuck with the freebies. Splice can now exploit this catalogue as it sees fit, and maybe Splice Instrument is the right place for all that great Labs content to reside. Grab Splice Instrument for free from their website.
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