This is undeniably Cherry audio’s best work. I demoed it and instantly got over the 59$ price tag. This thing is insanely inspiring and will inevitably be in everyone’s arsenal. It will spread like wild fire.
Incredibly beautiful, expressive, musical. Great emulation and beyond, it would have been a dream to make my CS60 (twenty years ago when i sold it) sounds just like half the GX80 sounds today. It's musical, really musical and playable. Congrats to the whole Cherry Audio team, you are the best and i love you!👏👏👏❤
After several days of thinking about it, today I finally purchased the GX-80, and WOW! It sounds so much better than what you hear in the online demos. I also have the Arturia CS-80, but I think this GS-80 version sounds much better and has better presets. One major tip when using this VST is you want to use it with a keyboard that has aftertouch or you will miss out bigtime. For afterouch I use an Arturia Keystep keyboard. For FX to give me the huge spacious Vangelis sound, I add Valhalla Shimmer reverb as well as some delay and I am in Vangelis heaven. For $59 buying the GX-80 is a no brainer, especially if you want those amazing classic Vangelis sounds.
Ah, the sound of “Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime.” So i can drive my family crazy by singing it over and over with the correct patch. 👌 Y’all are killing it. I have the feeling my wallet is about to cry.
Cherry Audio have in 6 short months completely ruined my music production setup. They keep releasing one AMAZING synthesiser after another, and I have to keep replacing stalwarts I have had in my studio for years because they are simply the most amazing, affordable, CPU-friendly and brilliant sounding VSTs I have ever used. Stop it you lot, please.
There is absolute no question that I'm grabbing this! The supreme machine, tried it in real for just a few minutes once... the synth of my dreams... and I say all this as a 14-bit Jupiter-8 owner... Goodbye Arturia, goodbye poor samples... and thank you Memorymoon ME-80... THANK YOU SO MUCH CHERRY AUDIO!
Downloaded demo. Works in Reason like a charm. Enough said, enough done. You got my money, but most important, you got my respect and deep gratitude and appreciation for what you are doing. You are second to none in my opinion.
Outstanding work on the GX-80, Cherry Audio. There's a haunting depth, and breathing spirit here that makes most of my other synths seem flat in over-all dynamic sound in comparison. So this is a special one and I want to say thank you for the gifted hard work you put into it. Cheers! 🦊
Never in my life did I think someone would dare to emulate the GX1. But then again I never thought someone could make a MemoryMoog plugin that sounds identical to the real thing. This is incredible. Cherry Audio are game changers. Now if they just made half-sized hardware controllers for their synths …
Could never find either synth....and if I did, I probably couldn't afford it. Now I can have my cake and eat it too! Lots of irons in the fire right now but soon, the GX-80 will be in my arsenal. I look forward to that day.
I didn't just run home from work, throw my uniform off, sling on my dressing gown (fluffy), crack open a bottle of the orange stuff and plate up a load of snacks ready for the Live Premiere in 50 minutes............no, I didn't 😶😶😶
@@le-berry Dreadful poly AT unfortunately. Nice fast shallow keyboard but ironically it's better with aftertouch disabled because it's too easy to trigger! it's hard not to trigger aftertouch - that's not how aftertouch is supposed to work at all - it's supposed to be a control you get when pressing down harder, not merely brushing the keys.
@@wd25a I get that have JD800 with heavy aftertouch. But I don't care about intended purpose with then CME you have a plucking shape starting directly and is expressive in a impressive way. There are no absolute standards you adjust presets to taste and feel. Heavy aftertouch has its purpose but to be honest I rather have expression pedal if talking mono aftertouch for swelling and stuff use my MC3000 for that with 4 pedals routed to different groups and layers. Your statement is silly it's like you think there is only one for aftertouch and the word after doesn't mean there needs time between the aftertouch kicking in. In fact the light curves make very controllable and expressive patches just know to adjust and what to adjust. Heavy aftertouch has more downsides being disconnected isn't that musical at all. Control your midi and curves and it does do exactly what you want. Try to make a heavy aftertouch more sensitive and work together with the top of the velocity range giving it a variable in time. You did not think enough about this or you lack creativity. I enjoy different feels for different purposes and having many choices. Clavia, JD800, Oberheim MC3000, Arturia MK2 and CME gives me lots of different possibilities. I experience different musical ideas erupt playing with different keys and settings. Stop limiting yourself with this aftertouch supposed..... You supposed to think free and discover not limit things which are open and without convention to begin with. Guitars suppose to have strings thats thru. Aftertouch supposed to be touched 🤣🤣🤣
The synths are all great, I just wish they would make the GUI somehow different. I get that they want to replicate it visually too. But hundrets of little sliders with very small letters is how you built the Hardware, but it makes no sense in software because its not user friendly. I find it very hard to read and to spot the things I‘m looking for, on almost all cherry Synths. Maybe an alternative view with graphic representation would do the trick. Arturia does is very well: you have the original synth view but underneath there’s always an alternative modern view too, which makes it easier to operate with a mouse. Other than that, I use almost all cherry synths and they just sound incredible😎👌🏻
no other synth could be a "flagship" than the mighty beast it took 80 roadies to carry as it was the same weight as a ship. I could be wrong, but I'm predicting a "CA-80". 4 hours till it drops.
Does this synth really not have MPE? Really surprising, given how heavily it's advertised as expressive (and how cherry has supported mpe in the past) - I really hope it is added, as this would make this an instabuy for me!
Can we get these for iPad as well so we could use them live. Myself and many other keyboard players in club bands use iPads with midi controllers and the Cherry audio instruments would be a great addition. If they have Apple Silicon support they will 100% work on the iPad as long as Cherry Audio releases them to the iPad App store as Audio Units!! PLEASE!!!
GX-80 responds to MIDI Polyphonic Pressure (Aftertouch) from controllers, so if that output is supported by the device, it should work. You can first try the free demo of GX-80 with your gear to be certain.
Hmmm…I want this to be real good, but the sounds in this demo didn’t inspire. It might be the added saturation for loudness that puts me off. Will try the demo and hope to come away with a different impression.
i'd love to try this but your website won't load on any of the browsers I've tried (firefox, edge, chrome) so no way to download the demo. Also, I can see there are help articles about the issue on your forums, but your form site also won't load for the same reasons... reaching out in case you have any idea about how to fix the issue. Firefox says your security certificate is out of date.
We've checked, and we're not having any issues with our website on any of our browsers, testing from multiple locations. Connection is secure, certificate valid. We've had no Support tickets of this nature this week.
The thing with GX-1 presets is that those are actual unique dedicated hardware tabs that were inserted in slots. So, no easy way to emulate them now. We'd need reverse engineering detectives with forensic abilities to get close. I'll be very attentive for whom is able to replicate this intro timbre (though it would need full house Wembley Arena IRs, not an easy feat): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dlkT3hNO2Lg.html
The GX1 presets are just sets of values, defined by resistors in the modules. The values are turned into CVs and connected to the voice boards. All those values can be extracted easily. But the presets are almost universally dull, as they're mostly trying to emulate "real" instrument sounds. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dTXRRwHWcik.html
@@sequentix Dull? Not in the history book. Throughout the GX-1 production years 73-77, it received modifications, particularly in later revisions to bring more "movement" to the sounds. So it is very possible that presets themselves reflected this production goal as well. The difficulty would be to SOURCE those later years ones. It is known that Jean Paul Jones presets were left to Benny Andersson and that he has kept those along the decades... Both of those GX-1s actual productions have marvelous sounds, that in some future could have a release. One wishes!
@@Nexando I have plenty direct experience of the GX preset library. They are boring sounds like "Diapason" and "Electric Guitar". There are only a couple of sounds that approach being synth-sounding. Famous owners did exchange some sounds, but I believe those were user patches, not library sounds. I have extracted all the factory library presets into a spreadsheet. Each preset is simply 26 values, 21 are continuous CVs from 0 to 10V, the other 5 are on/off for 4 waveforms and VCF EG polarity.
@@sequentix Could it be that it is -- user patches -- we could better be talking about? Those hardware configuration plaques that are inserted from the GX-1 top and that are quite unique and define relevant aspects of the waveform to be produced. As far as I know, the things were epoxy soldered, but I could be mixing info here.
I'm gonna be honest. A lot of your synths sound way too digital and pedestrian. This one, however, may be a killer, and I'm prob still going to buy it even though I'm not into some of the others.
