{"id":152807,"date":"2026-04-02T18:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=152807"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:56:24","slug":"cherry-audio-intros-crumar-ds-2-synthesizer-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/04\/02\/cherry-audio-intros-crumar-ds-2-synthesizer-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Audio Intros Crumar DS-2 Synthesizer Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cherry Audio | Crumar DS-2 Synthesizer\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rSFCR7FDzHQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Cherry Audio<\/strong>, in collaboration with <strong>Crumar Instruments<\/strong>, has introduced <strong>Crumar DS-2<\/strong>, a new virtual instrument, for macOS &amp; Windows, based on the hardware DS-2 from 1978.<\/p>\n<p>They say that <strong>Crumar DS-2 &#8220;<\/strong>not only captures the distinctive tone and multitimbral capabilities of the original, but also enhances them, offering an impressive combination of innovation and authenticity.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cherry-audio-crumar-synthesizer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-152808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cherry-audio-crumar-synthesizer-728x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cherry-audio-crumar-synthesizer-728x365.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cherry-audio-crumar-synthesizer-320x160.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cherry-audio-crumar-synthesizer-768x385.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cherry-audio-crumar-synthesizer-599x300.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cherry-audio-crumar-synthesizer.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crumar DS-2 features an expanded monophonic synth section with high\/low settings, Unison, and Multi-voice options, along with polyphonic functionality that supports 4, 8, or 16 voices.<\/p>\n<p>The polyphonic section can handle up to 32 notes of full polyphony. Additionally, OSC 2 now includes a matching stair-stepped sine waveform, and the addition of oscillator sync enhances sound design possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>DS-2 also offers customizable keyboard splits and layers, an extra LFO, an expanded filter, a wide range of modulation options, polyphonic aftertouch, a dynamic arpeggiator, 20 studio-quality effects, and over 300 professionally designed presets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing and Availability:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crumar DS-2<\/strong> is <a href=\"https:\/\/cherryaudio.com\/products\/ds-2-synthesizer\">available<\/a> now for $59 USD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherry Audio has introduced Crumar DS-2, a new virtual instrument, based on the hardware DS-2 from 1978.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/04\/02\/cherry-audio-intros-crumar-ds-2-synthesizer-plugin\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cherry Audio Intros Crumar DS-2 Synthesizer Plugin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,42],"tags":[32244,36202,302,30630],"class_list":["post-152807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-synthesizers-samplers","category-virtual-instruments","tag-cherry-audio","tag-crumar-ds-2","tag-software-synthesizers","tag-virtual-instruments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cherry-audio-crumar-synthesizer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152809,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152807\/revisions\/152809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}