Native Instruments Super 8 £59
Inspired by the grand old polyphonic beasts birthed by Roland, Korg, Sequential Circuits et al in the 80s, Super 8 is Native Instruments’ first virtual analogue polysynth since Pro-53, almost two decades ago. It runs standalone or as a VST/AU/AAX plugin within Reaktor 6 or the free Reaktor Player ‘shell’, rather than natively, which has no significant ramifications apart from a bit of extra CPU usage.
Keeping it real
Super 8 will be immediately intuitive to anyone who’s ever been within spitting distance of an analogue synth, real or virtual. It’s clearly been designed for
