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Synthesizer

Pure LoFi

Arturia

Where to get itAvailable from Arturiaarturia.com

Pure LoFi is a synthesis instrument that combines analog tape modeling, vintage sampler emulation, and lo-fi digital processing into a single production-ready synth. It blends warm, worn, and heavily mangled sonic characters by pairing realistic instrument playback with creative sample manipulation and lo-fi oscillators, all colored by dedicated tape saturation and hardware mode effects. With 250 presets and drag-and-drop modulation, it bridges classic sampling aesthetics with modern music production tools.

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Key Features

01Two sound engine slots (Realistic Instrument, Creative Sampler, LoFi Oscillator engines)
02Multi-mode filter (Clean, Analog, and LoFi downsampling modes)
03LoFi Processor with Drive, Wear, Tone, Wobble, Speaker, and Vintage parameters
04Hardware mode settings emulating Fairlight CMI, Emulator II, Casio SK-1, E-mu SP-1200, Akai S900, Akai MPC60, plus Arturia Custom options
05Complex noise engine with sample-based textures and transients
06Four effect slots with 18 studio-quality effects including Trance Gate
07Drag-and-drop modulation: ADSR Envelope, Function, Random, Voice Modulator, Mod Sequencer, and MIDI sources
08Up to 16-voice polyphony with mono legato and mono retrigger modes

Things to Try

  • 01Adjust the LoFi Amount knob to preserve proportional relationships between Drive, Wear, Tone, Wobble, Speaker, and Vintage parameters while scaling the overall degree of lo-fi processing
  • 02Use the Voice Modulator set to 2–8 voices to apply different filter cutoff or pan values to each successive note for dispersion or drift-like behavior mimicking aged analog synths
  • 03Enable keyboard tracking on the Clean or Analog filter to shift cutoff frequency upward as you play higher notes, compensating for the ear's natural treble rolloff (or intentionally attenuate treble for lo-fi effect)
  • 04Route a Reverb effect to Send mode instead of Insert to apply reverb only to the pre-FX instrument sound independently of other serial effects, preventing all post-FX sound from sitting inside the reverb space
Formats
VSTVST3AUAAXSTANDALONE

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