Minimal Audio
Jacob Penn (Founder/CEO)Ben Wyss (Co-Founder/Head of Audio R&D)Nathan Wexler (Co-Founder/Head of Sound Design)
cm: Hi guys, can you give us an overview of how Current differs and expands on what you’d typically expect from a software synth?
Jacob (Jake): “We’ve all been using synths since we were kids. Typically you look at synths and they make sounds right? That’s been pretty normal since the inception of them, but things are changing and there’s more capability. There’s more processing power and there’s also just kind of a vision we have for the product and for the company that was there from the outset.
“The idea was to build an ecosystem around a single product. We knew from the start that we wanted to make a synth with effects built into it, but we didn’t want to have normal stock effects with three knobs that you can’t really dial in your sounds with. We find that it makes it really hard to make a final patch in the synth when things are constrained to that level. So we knew we wanted to build a collection of plugins that all formulate into one larger parent plugin.
“So when you open up Current you’ll see that all of our plugins are inside it, and all of the plugins originated from inside Current and were taken out to be released separately. We’ve been building Current since the beginning but we haven’t wanted to reveal that. We’re self-funded and we’re boot-strapped, so we particularly like the idea of the ecosystem
