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The Iconic Black Friday deal takes 70% off this EastWest Sounds synth collection, bringing it to $89 until Jan 17, 2027.
Iconic is a virtual instrument built around the keyboards and synthesizers behind some of the best-selling songs ever recorded. It holds 524 instruments across 138GB of samples.
According to the maker, no other synth collection offers sounds from history's biggest hit records, performed by the musicians who recorded them and set up by the people who first built those patches.
EastWest worked with Anthony Marinelli, the synth programmer behind Michael Jackson's Thriller, so the sounds stay true to the original productions.
The collection samples rare vintage hardware:
Alongside these instruments, a large set of presets recreates sounds from famous chart-topping records. The maker pitches the library at pop, hip hop, EDM and more.
The interface centers on an FX Pad with 4 selectable Macro Effects. Each one modulates several parameters at once, so a single move reshapes the sound.
The layout pairs a vintage knob-per-function design with modern styling, and every control sits on a single page.
To shape a patch, you have these tools:
The synths were recorded in the historic EastWest Studio 1. The producers then sent the sounds through analog tape machines, including a tube Studer J37, and pushed the levels to get tape saturation and harmonic distortion.
That gives you a second, more modern voice for each instrument alongside the clean original.
The instruments were also re-amped in EastWest Studio 2 with multiple mic positions. The studio sound can be blended with the direct sound, a technique often used by Bruce Swedien, the recording and mixing engineer on Thriller.
The maker says Iconic is not stuck in any one time period. The classic sounds sit next to the tape-driven, re-amped versions, so the same patch can be dialed from period-correct to heavily saturated.
Yes. The Iconic Black Friday deal takes 70% off the EastWest Sounds synth collection, bringing it to $89. The offer ends Jan 17, 2027. It is a virtual instrument with 524 instruments and 138GB of samples.
Iconic ships with 138GB of sampled vintage and rare synths and keyboards across 524 instruments, plus a large preset collection modeled on sounds from famous recordings. The maker pitches it at pop, hip hop, EDM and more.
Iconic samples the ARP 2600, Minimoog Model D, Oberheim OB-X, Sequential Prophet 5, Yamaha CS-80 and Synclavier II. EastWest recorded them in its historic Studio 1 and turned them into virtual instruments.
The interface centers on an FX Pad with 4 selectable Macro Effects that modulate multiple parameters at once. You also get dual modulatable filters, a 16-step arpeggiator, multi-mode portamento and effects to widen, pulse, distort, delay and spatialize.
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