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The Model 72 Black Friday deal takes 75% off Softube's Model 72 Synthesizer System, bringing this synth plugin to $39 until Nov 8, 2026.
Model 72 is a software model of an early '70s analogue monophonic synth. Softube modelled it component by component from a 1972 hardware unit in pristine condition, keeping the quirks and non-linearities of the original.
It is sold as a system, not a single plugin.
The package covers a recreation of the classic hardware, plus a separate effects edition, a module for amp simulation and seven modules for modular patching. That gives you four ways to use the same circuitry: as an instrument, as an effect, in Modular and in Amp Room.
The tone generator has 3 oscillators. The top two are identical and follow the incoming note. The third can be unlinked from the note and run free as a modulation source, with an extended tuning range and slightly different waveforms.
Five switches in the mixer turn the sound sources on and off before they reach the filter. From there the signal enters a voltage-controlled 4-pole low-pass filter with a resonance control.
One envelope generator with attack, decay and sustain shapes the harmonic content. The second shapes the amplitude. Both start when you play a note.
The modulation section covers master tune, note glide and modulation mix. You can pick the oscillator 3 output or noise as a source. Softube also added a dedicated LFO. The mod wheel acts as an attenuator and sends modulation to oscillator pitch, filter cutoff or both.
The output section holds the master volume, an A440 button that switches on a 440 Hz sine for quick tuning, and the doubling and spread controls.
The maker says the original hardware sounds warm, lush and luxurious, or fat, distorted and gnarly, but not ear-piercing. Softube added a few modern features on top of it.
The feedback trick from the hardware is in the Instrument plugin too. On the original you patch a cable from the high-gain output to the external input to get a roaring, raw feedback tone.
The FX plugin takes an external audio source on your audio or mix track, so you can use the distortion and filter on it. Route a MIDI channel to it and a played note gates the processed sound.
Softube has modelled gear with Tube-Tech, Solid State Logic, Chandler Limited, Weiss Engineering and Trident. Its synth plugins include Modular, Statement Lead and Monoment Bass.
Yes. The Softube Model 72 Synthesizer System is 75% off for Black Friday, which brings the synth plugin to $39. The deal runs until Nov 8, 2026.
The system includes the Model 72 Instrument, an FX version, an Amp Room module and seven Modular modules. That covers four uses of the same modelled synth: instrument, effect, Modular and Amp Room.
Softube says it is component modelled from a pristine 1972 hardware unit of a classic early '70s monophonic synth. The software was measured and matched down to the smallest details, with the original's quirks and non-linearities kept intact.
It can do both. The Instrument plugin is played via MIDI, while the FX plugin takes an external audio source on an audio or mix track, so you can use its distortion and filter on any sound.
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