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Cherry Audio brings back The Cat to Plugin version.

The Cat came back – Cherry Audio gets its claws into a ‘70s synth classic as it releases a plugin emulation.

Released in 1976, the Octave Electronics Cat was a biting analogue synth in the vein of the Arp Odyssey, but came at a significantly lower price. Now Cherry Audio has collaborated with Carmine Bonanno, the instrument’s original designer, to release a plugin version, Octave Cat.

The software emulation replicates the Cat’s dual-oscillator design, and also brings you its aggressive resonant filter, flexible modulation system, oscillator cross-mod and oscillator sync. Enhancements include expanded 16-voice polyphony – the original was duophonic – sample and hold glide, built-in effects and a dual-step sequencer.

You also get MPE support, more than 300 presets and extensive MIDI mapping features. There’s more than one way to skin this Cat, as well: you can make it look like either the Mark 1 or SRM version of the hardware.

Carmine Bonanno says that, as well as sounding just as good as his original synth, the new plugin “goes way beyond what a hardware CAT is capable of.” Explaining further, he adds that “on a hardware Cat, you can’t save a patch, you can’t control modulation with an external MIDI controller, you don’t have full polyphony, etc.” Cherry Audio’s enhancements, he believes, make the plugin “incredibly more versatile than a hardware Cat.”

The Octave Cat plugin runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats and is available now priced at $49 (regular price will be $69) and a free 30-day demo is available.  Find out more on the Cherry Audio website.

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AudioKit Pro has released King of Bass, a new iPhone/iPad bass synth, Sub 808 bass, and Kick-maker for standalone as well as an AUv3 plugin in iPad hosts like Logic for iPad.

Features:

• 2000+ samples and custom waveforms from a platinum producer
• Step Sequencer
• Traditional Synth Engine (including Pulse Width Modulation)
• 2 LFOs: Multiple waveforms + Re-trigger + modulate other LFOs by LFO
• Almost all parameters can be LFO Destinations
• Bass Distortion and chain w/ Bass Boost
• 2 Layers
• Filter made for low end
• Full ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release for each layer)
• On board recording – easily make kicks, baselines and more without any other gear or apps
• Oneshot LFOs
• “Kick it!” function to turn any patch into a custom kick

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King of Bass is available now for $3.99 (regular price $9.99)

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Immediately hailed as one of the greatest headline sets that the festival has ever seen, Elton John’s Glastonbury performance delighted audiences both at Worthy Farm and in living rooms across the UK. In fact, so inspired were fans by his appearance that Casio Music UK is reporting a Rocket Man-fuelled uptick in sales of its pianos and keyboards in the following days.

In the week after the festival (June 26 to July 3) Casio Music says that sales of its digital pianos and keyboards more than doubled in comparison to the same period last year – they were up a whopping 133%. Traffic to its website was up by 70%, and Google searches for ‘pianos/keyboards for beginners’ increased by 20%.

It’s been suggested that the crowd for Elton’s Glastonbury performance was the largest ever seen, and the BBC’s combined audience figures across BBC One and iPlayer confirmed that the still-standing-songsmith had the biggest overnight audience for any Glastonbury headliner.

Here’s what Neil Evans, Head of EMI at Casio, said:

“To see an icon such as Sir Elton play out his final ever UK performance at Glastonbury was a special moment, yet to see how many people tuned in and have been inspired to play the piano is even more remarkable.

“Sir Elton is a piano-playing legend and off the back of his performance, we’ve seen increased interest in a range of our pianos and keyboards, especially for beginners. Who knows, his Glastonbury show may have just inspired a new generation of Sir Elton Johns.”

Piano sales have been buoyant for a while now, with lockdown, YouTube tutorials and social media all helping to bring the instrument back into favour. Show’s such as Channel 4’s The Piano, which saw members of the public unknowingly having their skills judged as they played public pianos at train stations, have also helped.

Elton John’s trip to Glastonbury was one of the final stops on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, which concluded in Stockholm this weekend. Closing the show, he thanked fans and told them that they would remain in his “head, heart and soul”.

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