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Love Synthesizers’ First Love is an FM synth you can learn without words, numbers or a manual

11.03

Love Synthesizers has begun shipping First Love, an award-winning standalone FM synthesizer with an intuitive touchscreen interface that uses no text or numerical readouts and champions…

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