Cherry Audio Mercury-4 £30

The bygone, underappreciated Jupiter-4 hums with life once again, thanks to this new, intricately modelled software adaptation

PRESET BROWSER Load, save and create sound presets

TRIGGER Control the timing of the arpeggiator and filter sample and hold

ARPEGGIO Activate the arpeggiator and switch the animation-type here

LFO SECTION Control all low frequency oscillator parameters, including Waveform and Rate

MASTER TUNE CONTROLS Modify the overall volume, pitch and tuning drift

VCA SECTION Controls the VCA, essentially an automated Volume knob

VCO SECTION Set the VCO parameters including pitch range, and frequency modulation

PERFORMANCE CONTROLS Modify the pitch bend wheel, portamento and master transposition

NOISE SECTION A simple switch that activates a white noisetype effect

TAPE ECHO An in-built reproduction of a Roland Space Echo-type tape echo

VCF SECTION Affect the sliders that control the high and lowpass filters