in this video i'm taking a very quick look at a free vst synth plugin that emulates a radio shack
synth from 1982 and being from radio shack you're probably thinking this thing's not going to sound
that great but radio shack actually hired moog audio engineers to design that thing and the free
vst synth is the cherry audio surrealistic mg-1 the real synth that this is emulating is the realistic
concertmate mg1 i'm Zane welcome to audio tech tv where it's my goal to help you conquer the tech so
you can unleash your creativity by providing easy to follow audio tech tips tutorials and reviews
now i've included a link down in the description to the cherry audio website so you can grab the
surrealistic mg1 for yourself it's available on both mac and windows but right now let's give the
cherry audio surrealistic mg1 a bit of a listen and then i'll talk about the details in just a bit
in my opinion this actually doesn't sound like a cheap synth even though it was designed to be
a cheap synth the original that is at the time that the original was created synthesizers were
extremely expensive and only accessible by pro musicians or people that had a lot of money and
synth music was getting bigger so radio shack wanted to create a synthesizer that was affordable
and accessible to musicians on a budget tandy and engineers from moog music designed the realistic
concertmate mg1 and it was actually manufactured by moog it was sold in radio shack stores from
1982 to 83 and this was an affordable way to get that moog bass sound that was and still is
very popular so let's check out some of the bass sounds in the surrealistic mg1 from cherry audio
as you can see it's a pretty no-frills synth but it's full of character and great tone and
due to its clean layout it can be a nice way to get into tweaking and learning synthesizers
you have your two oscillators with very easy controls plus your modulation filter and other
settings that are very easily laid out on the interface and if you're after that 80 sound and
you want a very high quality free synth then this one won't disappoint you and like the synth that
the cherry audio surrealistic mg1 emulates it's fairly basic but it does include 130 presets that
you can use as starting points for your sounds so let's give some of those presets a listen now
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thank you so much for watching for audio tech tv i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon