TheMaartian Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) Cherry Audio is giving away their Surrealistic MG-1 Plus synth. You only need to have/setup an account with them. Surrealistic MG-1 Plus The Fat and Funky Sound of the Electronics Super Store Legend! The fun and funky Surrealistic MG-1 Plus Synthesizer is a super authentic recreation of the Realistic MG-1 synthesizer sold in Radio Shack stores in the 80's. The Surrealistic MG-1 Plus delivers fat analog tone in spades, along with a unique polyphonic oscillator section, "bell tone" ring modulation, glide, auto repeat note triggering, oscillator sync, and a number of improvements that tremendously expand its capabilities. Best of all, it's absolutely FREE! Edited January 14, 2023 by John Maar 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satya Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 It was already free from start . Really good plugin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Shelby Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 https://cherryaudio.com/products/surrealistic-mg-1-plus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaartian Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share Posted January 14, 2023 6 minutes ago, satyabrata satapathy said: It was already free from start . Really good plugin Found that out. I only came across it today when I was downloading the update for GX-80. It's been out a couple of years. Always free. No reason really to show the $29 price crossed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaartian Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share Posted January 14, 2023 7 minutes ago, cclarry said: https://cherryaudio.com/products/surrealistic-mg-1-plus Thanks. I forgot to add the link. I updated the original post before I saw yours. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jngnz Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 This sounds like a toy. And not in a „lofi cool“ way either. Impossible to get any usable sounds out of it. Even The Unfinished didn't manage to. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user 905133 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Jan Schmitz said: This sounds like a toy. And not in a „lofi cool“ way either. Impossible to get any usable sounds out of it. Even The Unfinished didn't manage to. Did you ever play the one Radio Shack sold? It was a toy. So that means Cherry Audio got it right!!!!! Edited January 14, 2023 by User 905133 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jngnz Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 I live in a 1st world country, so no Radio Shacks for me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 3 hours ago, Jan Schmitz said: This sounds like a toy. And not in a „lofi cool“ way either. Impossible to get any usable sounds out of it. Even The Unfinished didn't manage to. Sez you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Unpopular opinion, I guess, but I've found it useful at times. The original was similar to a Moog Rogue, with a simple organ circuit grafted on to make it polyphonic (the Rogue voice was still mono, so you got Rogueish basses and leads and cheese organ chords). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 I've already got the Cherry Audio Miniverse, and that's plenty of Moog Mini for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user 905133 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said: Unpopular opinion, I guess, but I've found it useful at times. Just to be clear, when I said the original was a toy, I didn't mean it wasn't useful. For example, try this: Load the Cherry Audio MG-1 (free). Run it through Arturia's Filter MS-20 (was free a few weeks back). Choose "Big Sweep" on the MG-1 (others produce musical results, too). Choose "Break Beat HP Self Seq" on the MS-20. Play a basic Bass note progression. Edited January 14, 2023 by User 905133 to add "Play a basic Bass note progression. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 3 hours ago, User 905133 said: Run it through Arturia's Filter MS-20 (was free a few weeks back). The MS-20 filter could make ANY tone generator sound cool!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaartian Posted January 15, 2023 Author Share Posted January 15, 2023 (edited) 19 hours ago, User 905133 said: Just to be clear, when I said the original was a toy, I didn't mean it wasn't useful. For example, try this: Load the Cherry Audio MG-1 (free). Run it through Arturia's Filter MS-20 (was free a few weeks back). Choose "Big Sweep" on the MG-1 (others produce musical results, too). Choose "Break Beat HP Self Seq" on the MS-20. Play a basic Bass note progression. I loaded this up quickly in Gig Performer and liked the sound of the bottom octave. Nice find. It sounded best when I was able to fairly closely sync note changes to the sequencer. Edited January 15, 2023 by John Maar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.r Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 On 1/14/2023 at 3:03 PM, Jan Schmitz said: This sounds like a toy. First world problem ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jngnz Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 33 minutes ago, chris.r said: First world problem ? Also, I need to sell my GForce OB-E, SEM and Oddity3 because they're just not up to par with my other synths. ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esteban Villanova Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 I'm not impressed with their sounds... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcL Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 IMHO it is very difficult to decide about synth sounds, 'cos it highly depends what you play with them. At times it also helps to reduce delay and/or reverb of the preset for a certain usage. Sometimes searching a sound for a specific phrase I think a sound preset is worth nothing! The other day when I use another playing style or octave I am completely convinced 'bout the same sound. But maybe it's just me! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 7 minutes ago, marled said: IMHO it is very difficult to decide about synth sounds, 'cos it highly depends what you play with them. At times it also helps to reduce delay and/or reverb of the preset for a certain usage. Some synths are popular with certain genres of musician who choose a synth based on a factory or aftermarket library of production-ready sounds that fit their style. These presets are often drenched in effects to make them sound cool on preview. Temporarily shutting off the on-board effects will show the true colors of a synth engine. A saw wave is a saw wave, and a wavetable is a wavetable, etc. It's how you process them with filters, modulation, & effects that produces that synth's "sound". 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zo Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 23 hours ago, Jan Schmitz said: Also, I need to sell my GForce OB-E, SEM and Oddity3 because they're just not up to par with my other synths. ? My experience with ObE is the exact opposit , at least versus Cherry Audio .... pretty sure that if cherry audio was priced 149 $ each , less hype would be around .... Abacab is right , synths with a lot of chraracter are suited in certain scenario / genre while not so in others .... i went personnally with Xils lately because of a certain esthetic i want for my next album more in phase with the 70 's ... I will say also All SAW's are not created equal ..... lol at least in the analog world ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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