you could spend eight thousand dollars and get an actual hardware roland jupiter 4 or you could
spend just 39 and get the cherry audio mercury 4 which is an excellent emulation of the jupiter
4. now in addition to being more affordable it's also added more functionality to the mercury 4
so in this video we're going to look at what they've added and of course we're going to
give it a listen welcome to audio tech tv i'm zane and like i said earlier this plugin is
$39 it's available on mac and windows and you can also download a 30-day free trial
in case you want to check it out before you buy it but right now let's give it a listen
so that was just a small sample of the over 300 presets that are included with the cherry audio
mercury 4. and you can hear that vintage warmth and the character of the late 70s early 80s sound
in there now let's check out where cherry audio turbo charged this thing compared to the original
so first off the original jupiter 4 could only have up to four voices of polyphony now you can
see here with the mercury 4 you can have up to 16 voices so that's a nice added touch right
there and the original jupiter 4 only had a meager 8 user patch locations available
now with the cherry audio mercury 4 you get pretty much endless patch storage and
it makes it very easy to save your patches and edit them plus like i said earlier it includes
over 300 presets to get you started now let's check out some more of those presets but before
we do that i just want to ask if you're enjoying this video so far getting some value out of it
can you please give it a thumbs up maybe even subscribe to the channel and you can check
out more videos like this but right now let's check out some more of the mercury 4 patches
so you can see here these are the original factory presets so if you want to go with
the original factory presets you have them in here let's check those out
let's check out some pads
all right i really like that one there
all right that was pretty cool right there
so you can see in here there are tons of presets to get you started with
so many in here and some of these are really great you could just go with whatever's in
there and they would sound nice now another thing that cherry audio has added to the mercury for
is this tape echo and this is an emulation of the roland space echo which is a really nice
vintage tape echo machine so that tape echo is really nice another thing that they've changed is
all right now it sounds like somebody's marching towards us this is pretty cool right here okay
i'm turning that off now another thing that they've added is the original jupiter 4 had
a spring reverb in it but cherry audio have added to the mercury for a plate and hull reverb so it
gives you more tonal possibilities now like we saw there's the original factory presets in there and
if you wanted to stick with the original sounds of the jupiter 4 you can do that without using any
of these modern editions but if you want to take things further of course dig in and use this tape
echo maybe some of the other reverbs use the more voices of polyphony and enjoy the lighter weight
and the lighter price of the mercury 4 compared to the old jupiter 4. for $39 the cherry audio
mercury 4 is a real steal of an instrument now cherry audio also has a really nice emulation
of a memorymoog and if you want to check that out click the video on the screen right now and
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like this thank you so much for watching for audio tech tv i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon