Tracktion Launches Retromod Sample Series

Tracktion has introduced the Retromod Series, a growing collection of synth plugins that “redefines iconic hardware synthesizers and pushes them into the future”.

The Tracktion team has sampled dozens of synthesizers, added to them, given them contemporary twists but captured the sound and style and allure of the original hardware using modern technology to offer performance upgrades. The sound samples have been combined and pushed in different directions. The resulting sample collection is a compendium of sounds that were simply unachievable from the source hardware.

The recently released LOFREQ-C includes samples from eleven famous synthesizers from 1974 to 1995, namely the Oberheim SEM, Yamaha CS-30, Arp Odyssey, Korg MS-20, Realistic MG-1, Novation Bass Station R, Doepfer MS-404 and the Roland SH-2, TB-303, SH-101 and CMU-810. Also new, the LOFREQ-M contains samples from eleven great synthesizers from 1995 to the present, namely the Eowave Magma, DSI Evolver, DSTEC Original Syn, MFB Synth II, Vermona Mono Lancet, Arturia MiniBrute, Dreadbox Hades, Behringer Model D, IK Multimedia UNO and the Waldorf Pulse and Pulse 2. They join LEAD featuring samples from six renowned Clavia instruments, 106 based on three classic Juno instruments, and FAT featuring most of the landmark Moog synthesizers.