TAL Software recently released TAL-Pha, a new software emulation of the Roland Alpha Juno 2 – a synth primarily associated with the ‘hoover sound’ that was omnipresent in ’90s rave, hard house and trance music.
Bringing together digitally-controlled oscillators with analogue filters and a minimal, knob-free interface. The plugin’s architecture mirrors the Alpha closely, with a single PWMcapable oscillator (and additional sub-oscillator) running through two filters, a high-pass and a 24dB/oct low-pass filter that’s been given a resonance boost for self-oscillation. It also sports deeper abilities that the original couldn’t achieve. TAL-Pha is available now for $80/£63.