SuperWave P8

It’s hard to overestimate the impact made by SuperWave P8 when it arrived in the early 2000s. Plugin instruments were still in their early days, and trance still held some cultural currency, some 20 years after it had begun. With huge, unison sounds and buzzing, blistering super-charged sawtooth patches, hardware like Roland’s JP-8080 and Access’ Virus had provided producers with something of a signature sound. SuperWave’s P8 provided Windows users with a plugin alternative with their dualoscillator P8. Developed using SynthEdit, SuperWave P8 gave the ‘save-as-VST’ construction kit a serious shot of credibility, showing that pro level instruments could be created with the platform. superwavesynths.com/p8