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Polymode Black Friday pricing is 51% off, which puts this Cherry Audio synth plugin at $19 until Dec 1, 2026.
Polymode is a 32-voice polyphonic synth plugin inspired by the Moog Polymoog. The original was one of the first polyphonic synthesizers, and it used multiple parallel filters and an unusual mod routing scheme.
Cherry Audio says the original could be hard to operate and prone to breakdowns. Polymode is built to avoid those problems and to expand what the instrument can do.
The maker aims it at animated, evolving strings, pads and choral tones. It pairs a streamlined interface with deep modulation, so almost every synthesis parameter can be routed somewhere.
Modulation sources include velocity, pressure, white noise and pink noise, plus two bonus LFOs. Each LFO has five waveforms and tempo sync.
The oscillator section keeps saw and pulse waves available at once for both oscillator ranks. Polymode recreates the paraphonic architecture of the original.
The resonators are where the extra LFO and the notch setting can be found. They sit alongside the ladder-style filter, so you can shape a pad with both in the signal chain.
The effects are built in, so a finished pad or string sound can come straight out of the plugin with chorus, phaser, echo and reverb already dialed in.
Polymode comes as a Polymode VST3, VST, AAX and standalone app on Windows, and adds AU on Mac. It supports full MIDI control and full DAW automation for every control.
On Mac, you need macOS 10.13 or above, and macOS 13 Ventura is supported. It is 64-bit only, with native Apple M1 support including M1 Ultra. A 3.4 GHz quad-core or M1 CPU with 8GB of RAM is recommended.
On Windows, you need Windows 7 or above, including Windows 11, in 64-bit. A quad-core computer with 8GB of RAM is recommended.
Yes. The Polymode Black Friday deal takes 51% off Cherry Audio's synth plugin, which brings it to $19. The offer ends Dec 1, 2026.
Cherry Audio says Polymode is inspired by the Moog Polymoog, one of the first polyphonic synthesizers. It recreates the original's paraphonic architecture, while the maker says it avoids the original's operating difficulties and breakdowns.
On Windows, Polymode runs as VST, VST3, AAX and Standalone. On Mac, it adds AU to that list. Both platforms need a 64-bit system, and Apple M1 chips are supported natively on Mac.
Polymode has integrated ensemble, phaser, tempo-synced echo and reverb effects, plus a Solina-style tri-chorus mode. Filters include the mode filters, a resonators section with 12dB and 24dB slopes and a notch mode, and a classic 24dB ladder-style filter.
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