Hot on the heels of the M-Tron Universal Binary update comes the impOSCar! It’s been a huge undertaking for GForce to roll out Universal Binary editions of their amazing soft synths, but the company’s now on a roll. This amazing and quirky soft synth has been meticulously modeled on the legendary British OSCar synth that was used by the likes of Ultravox, Jean-Michel Jarre, Orbital, Underworld, and Stevie Wonder. Even so, only a few of us mere mortals have actually seen one. Still, GForce’s impOSCar has a legion of famous admirers including Orbital’s Phil Harntnoll (“I love it!”), Trent Reznor (“I can’t believe how great it is!”), and even the original designer of the hardware version, Chris Hugget (“It looks right and sounds right!”).
The Universal Binary update is free to all users who purchased and registered their instrument after October 1, 2006. For these users the instrument has automatically been allocated to their accounts at the GForce website. If you purchased your impOSCar before October of 2006, you will need to update to the Universal ImpOSCar at a very reasonable price of just $26.00. GForce promises that Universal Binary versions of their remaining instruments will now be released very quickly — in a matter of weeks, in fact — so watch this space!