Cherry Audio
PS -3300 $49
Cherry Audio’s latest software adaptation recreates a mythical beast, Korg’s PS-3300. Roland Schmidt goes hands-on with a legend reborn
A long time ago, or 1977 to be precise, Korg made a synthesiser which might have taken the world by storm. The only problem was, the company only made about 50 of them, securing its status as one of the most difficult to locate synthesisers on the planet.
Cherry Audio to the rescue!
The vintage Korg PS-3300 is a desirable and expensive affair, originally used by the likes of Vangelis, Jarre and Emerson. Tracking one down was never going to be easy, let alone one with all its faculties in good working order, but thanks to Cherry Audio’s collaboration with EMEAPP (Electronic Music Education and Preservation
Project) it has managed to pull off the coup of recreating a PS-3300 in software form, with all of the brand’s usual design flair and kudos.