Cherry Audio Mercury-6 Synthesizer (Software Download)

 Cherry Audio Mercury-6 Synthesizer (Software Download)Cherry Audio Mercury-6 Synthesizer (Software Download) 

Condition  Brand New
Warranty  Lifetime Access
Delivery  Digital Delivery

  • Two VCOs per voice with combined waveform capabilities
  • 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
  • Precisely implemented portamento and glissando modes
  • Powerful solo and polyphonic unison modes for fat, stacked sounds
£38.90 £41.95
Earn 38 Loyalty Points.
+
AVAILABILITY:
In Stock, Digital Delivery  

In Stock, Digital Delivery

product timer
Order soon for delivery
on using our express service
Finance this product
Finance
Cherry Audio
payment for product

Condition  Brand New
Warranty  Lifetime Access
Delivery  Digital Delivery

  • Two VCOs per voice with combined waveform capabilities
  • 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
  • Precisely implemented portamento and glissando modes
  • Powerful solo and polyphonic unison modes for fat, stacked sounds

Product Details

Product: Cherry Audio Mercury-6 Synthesizer (Software Download)

SKU: DDJ5241

Condition  Brand New
Warranty  Lifetime Access
Delivery  Digital Delivery

Cherry Audio Mercury-6 Synthesizer - Download

This product comes in the form of an automated email, containing the serial activation code and a link to the relevant website. This should arrive within a few minutes of your successful purchase. If you have not received your email within 20 minutes, please check your junk/spam folders first and then call or message us for assistance.

Mercury-6 is a meticulous recreation of the Jupiter-6 analog synthesizer, just in time for its 40th anniversary! Sandwiched between the earlier Jupiter-4 and Jupiter-8 models in name only, the sophisticated Jupiter-6 has sometimes been considered a sleeper release. These days, it has persevered to become one of Roland's most notable and coveted classic synthesizers due to its distinctive dark and complex character. Mercury-6 captures all that is exceptional in this treasured polyphonic classic, boosts its extraordinary feature set for today's DAW production and workflow, and celebrates the ground-breaking innovation from the era that changed music forever.

Released in 1983 as a more affordable alternative to the flagship eight-voice Jupiter-8, the six-voice Jupiter-6 nevertheless staked out an essential position in the history of analog polysynths. Though similar in appearance and feature set, the Jupiter-6 stood apart from the Jupiter-8 in its sound and capabilities. Unlike earlier Roland polysynths with lowpass filters plus a rudimentary non-resonant highpass filter, the Jupiter-6 featured a true multimode filter with 24 dB/oct lowpass, 24 dB/oct highpass, or 12 dB/oct bandpass modes. This versatile filter design lent a more aggressive sound than previous Jupiters, making the Jupiter-6 a natural for cutting-edge techno and electro styles.

Though something of a "hidden feature," the Jupiter-6 VCOs supported multiple simultaneous waveforms, and its two LFOs and oscillator cross mod capabilities provided extensive modulation possibilities. Its earthshaking solo and poly unison modes enabled massive lead and bass sounds, and it was notably one of the first synthesizers to include the then-new MIDI protocol.

Although often praised for its harmonic complexity and ability to cut through a mix, the cost-cutting in the Jupiter-6 design resulted in some disadvantages. Output was mono only and it was limited to six-voice polyphony. The Jupiter-6 had an impressive (for the time) split keyboard and patch preset storage functionality, but this six-voice maximum hampered its potential. And though it was considerably less expensive than the Jupiter-8, its timing was ill-fated when the digital revolution was ignited by the release of Yamaha's revolutionary DX-7 FM digital synth the same year.

Despite its noteworthy character, the Jupiter-6 is not one of those synths immediately identified with recognizable sounds from hit songs. Nevertheless, it was the Jupiter-6 behind the bass line of Ray Parker Jr.'s classic "Ghostbusters," and it found purchase in the work of Human League, Tangerine Dream, Thomas Dolby, Trans-X, Vangelis, and Devo. In a testament to its staying power over the decades, its popularity grew in genres such as big beat, house, and techno through The Chemical Brothers, Moby, and The Crystal Method. Electronic music duo Orbital has been a vocal proponent of the Jupiter-6 and, more recently, it has been a significant part of the sound of Daft Punk and Junkie XL.

  • 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 Up/Down modes 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 re-trigger 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
  • MAC: OS X (10.13 or above. macOS 13 Ventura supported. Native Apple M1 processor support, including Apple M1 Ultra.)
  • WINDOWS: Windows (Windows 7 or above (including Windows 11)
  • Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AAX, STAND-ALONE

UK Deliveries

We offer free delivery on all of our items (UK mainland only) please see details below.

Destination Delivery Times Cost
UK Mainland Economy (only available for orders over £70) 3-5 Working Days* Free of charge
UK Mainland Express Next Day* £4.99
UK Mainland Saturday and Sunday Saturday or Sunday £14.99
Northern Ireland, Scottish Highlands 2 Working Days* £11.99
Scottish Islands, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Isles of Scilly 2 Working Days* £14.99

*Applies to in stock items. Orders placed after 5pm will be dispatched the following working day, next day delivery does not include Saturday or Sundays. Some services are only available to UK mainland addresses.

Jersey and Guernsey are also VAT exempt, so 20% will automatically be knocked off when selecting your country in the basket or checkout.

Pre 10am, 12am and named day delivery options are available in the basket, simply enter your postcode for an accurate price. Please note there is a surcharge for individual, very heavy items over 30kg. This will be applied in the basket.


European Deliveries

We ship to most European destinations, simply choose your country and the correct price will show up in the basket.

Delivery times range from 2-4 days, 4-9 for remote areas.

A quick glance at some of our rates...

Destination Delivery Times Cost
Republic of Ireland, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy & Netherlands 2-4 Working Days £14.99
Spain, Austria, Denmark, Hungary 3-5 Working Days £19.99

Rest of the World

We can ship anywhere in the world, if you are outside of the EU we will knock 20% VAT off the price, rates depend on weight so please get in touch for an accurate price, [email protected]

Read more about our delivery here.


Returns

Our returns system is easy, you have the right to cancel an order up to 14 days, please check our full returns policy here.

Customer Reviews

Customers Also Bought

£38.90