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You could, conceivably, get away with never installing a plugin synth, simply using the ones that came with your, but where would be the fun in that? The software instrument market is now so large and diverse that you could spend a lifetime exploring it and still never run out of new sounds. You can choose from the latest generation of CPU-busting supersynths, classic hardware emulations that often - whisper it - improve on the originals, sample-based monsters that come stuffed with great-sounding presets, and out-there instruments that encourage experimentation. In its original incarnation we found Retrologue to be a surprisingly capable synthesizer, and one that makes a real virtue of its relative simplicity. Its one-window approach means that creating and tweaking sounds is very quick, but it also sounds good. Each of its oscillators has a range of interesting shaping options, its filters do a good job, and it can create authentic analogue-style sounds and textures - to the extent that we have used it far more than we care to admit.