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It’s always exciting when we get to give away a synth, and this month’s offering is an absolute corker. Inphonik RYM2612 (VST, VST3, AU, AAX, Apple Silicon and Reason Rack) makes an excellent addition to your sonic toolkit and this £44 synth is yours absolutely free with this issue!
Boutique developer Inphonik (inphonik.com) has a love for the obscure and RYM2612 is a perfect example. Based on the sound chip found inside a number of classic games consoles, and most notably the original Sega Mega Drive, RYM2612 is an FM synth with heaps of character.
The OPN2 chip (YM2612) was designed by Yamaha to bring its own FM-operator-based synthesis system to a broader market, and to that end it’s essentially a self-contained 6-voice synthesis system with four operators per voice, stereo output DAC and sine wave LFO. Still, despite its popularity, it actually has a design flaw that results in low-level signals having exaggerated quantisation noise. This, of course, adds to the personality of the synth, and has been faithfully recreated in Inphonik’s emulation. Meanwhile, more undesirable
