Cherry Audio have landed 2 for Black Friday, Mercury-8 Synthesizer and Synth Stack 6, available for:
- Mercury-8 Synthesizer – $69.00
- Synth Stack 6 – $599.00, increasing to $1,687.00
Mercury-8 Synthesizer
Mercury-8 synthesizer builds on Cherry Audio’s renowned Mercury legacy with a passionate focus on detail and modern technical advancements. Every aspect of the original hardware has been meticulously modeled to capture the authentic sound and behavior that made the JP-8 so legendary. Furthermore, Mercury-8 goes “beyond Jupiter” by offering expanded polyphony, versatile modulation options, studio-quality effects, expressive performance capabilities, and even data exchange with the original hardware.
Cherry Audio’s Mercury-8 utilizes advanced circuit and behavior modeling techniques to ensure unparalleled sonic accuracy and even compatibility with the original synthesizer. Unlike sample-based emulations, Mercury-8 uses virtual analog synthesis, enabling comprehensive, dynamic control over all synthesis parameters while remaining compact. Its precision not only captures the distinctive sound and essence of the JP-8 but also facilitates data exchange with MIDI-modified hardware.
Mercury-8 features a highly optimized dual-layer architecture that supports 16 polyphonic voices per layer, enabling powerful split keyboard and dual-stacked modes. Analog drift and condition controls allow fine-tuning of the synth’s age and state, and the multi-voice mode provides subtle to extreme variations in pitch, panning, filtering, and envelopes for tones and patterns.
The comprehensive modulation matrix includes four slots with user-friendly click-to-assign functionality, offering dozens of source and destination options. The built-in arpeggiator and 16×4 programmable polyphonic step sequencer are both syncable and transposable, and feature flexible humanize settings to create endless pattern possibilities.
Furthermore, Mercury-8 features three independent effect chains and provides 20 studio-quality effects for chains that can be customized, saved, and recalled. And producers can get started immediately with over 600 stellar presets, including precise recreations of the original JP-8 factory patches along with “Factory Plus” enhanced versions.
Mercury-8 is not just another recreation of the legendary classic synthesizer; it transforms one of the greatest analog synths of all time into a fresh and inspiring tool for today’s musicians and producers.
Features include:
- The ultimate JP-8 emulation, engineered by Cherry Audio with its latest comprehensive circuit and behavior modeling techniques to provide unparalleled accuracy to — and exclusive compatibility with — the original hardware
- Highly optimized, massive dual-layer voicing architecture with 16 polyphonic voices per layer. Keyboard split and stacked layer modes allow two simultaneously playable layers, with separate per-layer controls for all parameters, including synthesis, modulation, patterns, and effects
- Two oscillators per voice for each layer deliver thick, vibrant tones with classic waveforms, sync, and accurate exponential FM cross-modulation
- Triangle, ramp, sine sawtooth, noise, and square or variable pulse waveforms with pulse width modulation
- High-pass and resonant low-pass filters for each layer faithfully recreate the legendary Jupiter curves, with 12 dB and 24 dB slope options
- Two full ADSR envelopes per layer with velocity, independently assignable to filter, amp, and modulation for expressive control and dynamic sound shaping
- Tempo-syncable LFO for each layer, with retrigger option
- Analog Drift and Condition Controls to fine-tune the “age” of the synth from pristine new to unstable vintage, with adjustable VCO, VCF, VCA drift, and envelope slop
- Solo, Unison, Poly-1 and Poly-2, Multi, and single-key Chord Memory assign modes
- Multi-voice mode that adds adjustable “mini synth” trimmers to provide subtle or extreme voice variation in pitch, panning, filter, and envelopes to tones and patterns
- Repurposed “digital display” interface with clickable access to extended features such as trigger and note priority, unison voices, multi-voice modes, condition, and drift
- Over 600 out-of-this-world presets by ten sound design pros, along with the precise recreation of the 64 original JP-8 factory patches (with enhanced versions) and the eight factory setups, all accessible in a convenient preset browser. Also included are template presets that serve as ideal starting points for sound design in Mercury-8, and a MIDI controller mapping compatible with the Jupiter-X hardware synthesizer
- Comprehensive modulation matrix with four slots and simple click-to-assign functionality: 25 sources and 43 destinations with optional “Via” controls, including Mercury-8’s integrated effects
- Syncable and transposable arpeggiator for each layer with Arp, Leap, Order, and Random modes, and Swing, Chance, and Feel to add degrees of randomness to arpeggiated patterns
- Plus more…….
Synth Stack 6
Cherry Audio Synth Stack 6 is a comprehensive bundle featuring 36 of their virtual instruments, including classics like Voltage Modular Core+Electro Drums, DCO-106, and GX-80, alongside new additions for 2025 such as KR-55C Drum Machine and Mercury-8.
This extensive collection comprises 28 vintage synthesizer emulations, three original synthesizers, two legendary drum machines, an electric piano, a tonewheel organ, a modular synthesizer platform, and over 12,000 presets, offering a vast sonic palette for musicians.
The bundle includes GPFree, a lite version of Gig Performer 5, a cross-platform audio plugin host, and Synth Stack 6 owners receive a 10% discount on the full Gig Performer 5 version, enhancing live performance capabilities.
Watch the Mercury-8 intro video HERE.
Both plugins are available to PC and Mac users (VST2, VST3, AU and AAX).
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