6 of the best 80s analogue synth plugins

Roland Jupiter 8 Mac/PC. Roland Cloud from $99.00 per year or $129 The most iconic polysynth from the 80s era, the Roland Jupiter 8 set the bar for sound and reliability, where some other polysynths had fallen by the reliability wayside. While secondhand prices are exorbitant, Roland have you covered, with their extraordinary plugin/out which is available as part of the Roland Cloud. It has the additional advantage of being open to a hardware format, through various Roland keyboards that offer Plug-out compatibility. In our tests, it was difficult to tell apart from an original. rolandcloud.com Korg MonoPoly v2 Mac/PC $99.99 One of the more interesting synths from the early 80s, the Korg MonoPoly was part monosynth, part poly. This meant you could do some very interesting things with the oscillators, as they cycled through their usage. Within Korg’s excellently modelled version of this synth, the boundaries become even more blurred, but it still maintains the spirit of the original, with the contemporary angle of a plugin. korg.com