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Baby Audio BA-1: Evolving everyday softsynth design

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“We’ve always wanted to make synthesisers; but it took eight effect plugins until we finally took the plunge! As for the motivation behind BA-1: with many of our products we have this philosophy of doing ‘evolutions’ instead of ‘emulations’, where we take a piece of hardware and expand upon its concept in a software version. We felt that the CS01 could be a really great candidate for a project like that – for two reasons: first of all, because it had a much bigger impact on music history than it’s normally given credit for. And secondly, the original was so limited

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