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Cherry Audio Revives Ultra-Rare 1981 Synthesizer with New Pentaphonic Plugin

October 7

From @synthandsoftware - Cherry Audio announces the release of Pentaphonic, an innovative virtual instrument that resurrects one of the rarest synthesizers ever made: the Gleeman Pentaphonic.

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