The 70s saw much of the beginning of electronic music. Part of the inventiveness and spirit of that decade saw the beginning of new synthesizer instruments often referred to as string machines. Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre, and Pink Floyd among other artists made use of them.
Of course the analogue eventually has travelled into the digital domain with more or less successful emulations making their appearances. What is especially interesting to see is that a few affordable plugins have appeared which claim to reproduce these original instruments in all their retro glory. We decided to compare two different virtual instruments whose ambition is to emulate the string machine sound to see what kind of harmonies might come out. The lucky two are Vintage Strings MKIII and String Dream Synthesizer.
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