'80s Synth Inspiration, Rebuilt
Chasing that early-’80s polysynth sound once meant having to chase down a legacy hardware synthesizer, but Cherry Audio’s Memorymode 2 gives you all that classic tone with none of the maintenance. Cherry Audio rebuilt this flagship synth software from the circuit up, with oscillators, envelopes, and a ladder filter that get even closer to the original hardware than its predecessor. Dual-layer architecture puts two complete 16-voice engines inside a single preset, ready to split across the keyboard or stack into something truly colossal. Each layer carries its own modulation, arpeggiator, polyphonic sequencer, and effects chain, so you can edit a patch comprehensively without needing additional plugins or processing. And with over 800 presets waiting in the redesigned browser — the 100 original factory patches among them — the Memorymode 2 takes a page right out of music's history book while helping you write the next chapter.
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Improved modeling for a greater range across the board
Cherry Audio’s improved analog modeling gives the Memorymode 2’s oscillators, envelopes, and filter more depth and detail than the software’s first iteration. The ladder filter itself now switches between 12 and 24 dB per octave, giving you the classic 4-pole roar or a gentler 2-pole slope for sounds that retain their top end. Emphasis Compensation holds the level and low-frequency weight steady as you push resonance up, so a filter sweep doesn’t lose your patch’s bottom end. Analog drift and the new Multi-Voice mode supply additional character, varying pitch, panning, cutoff, and envelope times from voice to voice by amounts you trim yourself. Your sounds breathe as if they came off the original 1982 unit, with room to go where the hardware never could.
Two synths in every preset
Sweetwater producers say that the Memorymode's dual-layer architecture is what jumps out immediately after pressing a key. Each layer is a complete 16-voice synth with its own oscillators, filter, envelopes, modulation, patterns, and effects chain, and you decide whether the two sit side by side as a keyboard split or stack together into one enormous sound. When stacked, the two layers produce sounds no single 16-voice engine can reach. Split them, and you can cover two parts in one performance.
Cherry Audio Memorymode 2 Features:
- Virtual synthesizer software inspired by a 1982 legacy hardware synth, re-engineered with Cherry Audio’s latest circuit and behavior modeling
- Dual-layer architecture places 2 complete 16-voice synthesizer layers in a single preset, with independent synthesis, modulation, pattern, and FX controls per layer
- Split and stacked layer modes for playing both layers at once across the keyboard, giving you potential for massive sounds
- Remodeled 3-oscillator voice engine with ramp, triangle, and variable-width pulse waves, plus noise and oscillator sync
- Re-created ladder filter with selectable 12dB- and 24dB-per-octave slopes
- Emphasis Compensation switch maintains sound level and LF weight as emphasis increases
- 2 tempo-syncable LFOs per layer with 7 waveforms, plus 2 voice modulation panels using oscillator 3 and the filter envelope, with up to 6 simultaneous destinations
- Mono and Unison modes with note priority, Polyphonic modes with voice cycling, and single-key Chord Memory assign mode
- Touch modulation matrix with 4 slots, click-to-assign routing, and 52 destinations, with per-note expression via polyphonic aftertouch and MPE
- Syncable, transposable Motion panel per layer, pairing an arpeggiator with Arp, Leap, Order, and Random modes, plus Swing, Chance, and Feel with a 16 x 4 polyphonic step sequencer
- 3 independent FX chains — 1 per layer plus a global chain — each with its own modulator and per-effect dry/wet mix
- 22 studio-quality FX that can be arranged, saved, and recalled within their chains, including the new Wide Phaser and Rotary Speaker
- 800+ presets in 15 categories in a redesigned preset browser, including the Memorymode version 1 library
