Pulsar Modular have released Zorba, available $225.00.
Built on the Pulsar Modular P900 analog heritage, Zorba can be a Juno on your first patch, a Jupiter on your second, and something neither could have imagined on your third.
VCO1 and VCO2 share a single morph knob that slides continuously between saw, square, triangle, and sine. VCO3 is a fully independent sub oscillator reaching one octave below the main pair, with its own tune, gain, and filter routing.
Two independent filters based on the 904-F State Variable design. Low-pass, band-pass, high-pass, notch, each with a resonance curve that passes through clean, self-oscillation, transformer saturation, and the Black Hole rebirth zone.
Ten sources reach 38 unique targets across the synthesizer. Every route has its own depth. Multiple sources can share a target and combine. No slot limits, no setup fee for getting started, the defaults make Zorba musical the moment a key is pressed.
Zorba started from a simple question: what would a synthesizer sound like if it carried the warmth and soul of classic analog machines, but wasn’t boxed in by their original architecture? The Junos, Jupiters, Prophets, and Moogs all made brilliant compromises in oscillator count, modulation paths, and envelope destinations. Those constraints became their character, and that character became the sound of decades of records.
Today’s soft synths can offer hundreds of parameters and unlimited routings. Zorba doesn’t try to win that race. It tries to win on sound, and on the focused depth that only emerges when an instrument has a clear voice.
The signal path honors the Pulsar Modular P900 analog heritage. Both filters share the same 904-F State Variable design. The noise generator runs on its own path with its own HPF and LPF, so breath transients, BBD-style chorus haze, and organ key click sit on top of the main tone without being shaped by it.
The result is an instrument that’s immediate. Load a preset and play. Reach for the mod matrix and go as far as the routing will take you. Welcome to Zorba.
Watch the intro video HERE.
Zorba is available to PC and Mac users (VST3, AU and AAX).
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