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Rob Papen

Albino-3 Legend

Do you still remember Albino? Over 22 years ago, Rob Papen and LinPlug created this software synthesizer, which established itself as one of the top alternatives to virtual analogue hardware such as Access Virus & the like. Since LinPlug stopped developing plug-ins a few years ago, nobody really expected an update. Visually, the synthesizer has barely changed, but a few improvements have been made under the hood: it now supports the VST3 standard and modern operating systems and processors and offers various GUI

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