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    Softube Parallels

    Jun 18, 2019 4 minutes
    By Ronan Macdonald

    Ronan has been writing about music technology and production for over 20 years. He’s also a drummer, but don’t hold that against him

    “It sacrifices a degree of depth at the altar of simplicity, but most will find its focused approach refreshing”

    Having successfully made the move from the effects domain into the area of softsynths with their Heartbeat drum machine and Modular Eurorack emulation, Softube’s new plugin instrument, Parallels (VST/AU/AAX), is a 14-voice two-oscillator polysynth with a 1.6GB library of multisampled waveforms at its core. These have been captured from an array of classic and boutique hardware synths, and environmental recordings, and they aim

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