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SOFTUBE Statement Lead

With its long history of modelling professional gear, Swedish firm Softube has serious industry form for bringing the vintage stock of companies such as Tube-Tech, Solid State Logic, Weiss Engineering and Trident to the desktops of today’s music-makers in sublime software shells. With its latest release, the company presents Statement Lead, a state-of-the-art user-friendly polyphonic synth that Softube claims has the contemporary producer and songwriter in mind. Given Softube’s recent releases, our excitement levels have been through the roof waiting for this to arrive, and we’ve been itching to see whether it can maintain such high standards

TAKING THE LEAD

Renowned sound designer Tobias Menguser was again drafted in to take the same meticulous

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