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Rob Papen B.I.T. £80

The latest softsynth in Rob Papen’s ever-expanding range is remarkable for being… well, unremarkable – in a conceptual sense, at least. You see, B.I.T. (which stands for ‘Back In Time’) is a straight-up, “pure” virtual analogue modelling synth – something that has never existed in the Papen catalogue until now. All of the great man’s previous synths have been based on ‘digital’ oscillators, and while their extensive sampled waveform libraries invariably include single-cycle analogue shapes, it is nonetheless surprising that it’s taken this long for one of the industry’s most prolific developers to

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