Something to do with Arturia's proprietary TAE (True Analog Emulation) technology? I guess so a little digging in the manual and on their website reveals detailed explanations of how TAE oscillators produce 'dynamically generated' waveforms in contrast to sampled or wavetable-based digital synths, which (among other things) nullifies aliasing in high frequencies. However, I don't feel this fact completely invalidates my review of the product I've had the chance to spend many hours with most of Arturia's other classic-synth reproductions (the Minimoog V, the Moog Modular V, and the ARP2600 V) and can say that they all are frighteningly accurate reproductions of the originals. To say it's a rare (and expensive!) synth is an understatement. There were purportedly less than 3000 made back in 1976. One important caveat before I launch into my soft-synth love fest: I have never come within reach of a real Yamaha CS-80, the famed, late-'70s, 220 lb polyphonic beast. Well, Arturia's CS-80V has melted away my snobbish perspective and made me think that someone is actually getting it right. But I guess I just didn't feel that most 'virtual analog' synths had the almost inexpressible qualities I had come to associate with the real deal: warmth, fatness, depth.

After long, fulfilling relationships with my analog synths (various Moogs, Rolands, etc.), I kinda brushed off most analog-modeling software synths as budget imitations, which is really snobbish and unfair, I know. I have fallen in love with a software synthesizer.

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