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Rhizomatic Plasmonic

This recent synthesizer attempts to take up the mantle of physical modeling with some intriguingly unique and inspiring features. Plasmonic is capable of realistic plucks, other-worldly pads and scapes, and almost anything in between. You receive two ‘traditional’ oscillators (which are actually anything but), plus Impulse and Noise oscillators to boot, all capable of being routed through a Resonator bank and a filter, and then finally routed through some spatial effects processors.

So what’s special here? Plasmonic’s oscillators have some particularly cool waveforms – including FM pairs and the mysterious ‘Hazy’ types – and the oscillator

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