Mercury-6

Meticulous recreation of the Jupiter-6 analog synthesizer

Mercury-6 is a painstaking reproduction of the Jupiter-6 analog synthesizer. The advanced Jupiter-6, which is sandwiched between the older Jupiter-4 and Jupiter-8 models solely in name, has been been referred to as a sleeper release. Because to its characteristic dark and deep personality, it has persisted to become one of Roland's most renowned and sought-after vintage synthesizers today. In addition to enhancing its already impressive feature set for modern DAW production and workflow, Mercury-6 captures all that is outstanding about this beloved polyphonic classic while also honoring the groundbreaking innovation from the time that permanently altered music.

Mercury-6 Features

• Highly optimized, massive dual-layer voicing architecture with 16 polyphonic voices per layer. Keyboard split or stacked layer modes allow two simultaneously playable layers, with separate per-layer controls for all parameters, including effects

• Two VCOs per voice with combined waveform capabilities: triangle, ramp sawtooth, noise, and square or variable pulse

• Multimode filter with a 24 dB/oct lowpass, 24 dB/oct highpass, or 12 dB/oct bandpass modes

• Accurate reproduction of the original's advanced VCO-2 to VCO-1 FM cross-modulation for searing tones

• Precisely implemented portamento and glissando modes

• Exactingly replicated arpeggio section with MIDI tempo sync, the hidden Down/Up mode of the original, and the addition of a Random mode

• Powerful solo and polyphonic unison modes for fat, stacked sounds

• Two tempo-syncable LFOs with extended retrigger functionality

• Per-layer drift control for oscillators and filter frequencies for authentic analog character

• Single-key chord memory mode

• Over 500 presets, created by a talented team of sound design veterans, easily accessible in a convenient preset browser

• Panel Control for selecting layer controls, including extensive utility functions for duplicating and exchanging synthesis and effects parameters between layers and presets.

• Studio-quality integrated effects: distortion, 4/8/12 stage phaser, flanger/chorus, three types of delay with sync, and four types of reverb, with easy-to-access global or layer settings

• Complete MIDI control and DAW automation for all controls, with easy-to-use MIDI learn and mapping (Preset and Global)

• Cherry Audio's popular Focus zoom-in feature, as well as standard UI zoom and resize via drag

• Complete documentation available directly online from the instrument or in downloadable PDF format

• Highly optimized coding for optimal performance with ultra-low CPU load, and multithreaded processing for presets using Split and Layer modes

• User-adjustable oversampling control