Cherry Audio Mercury-6 Synthesizer

The Cherry Audio Mercury-6 Synthesizer is a meticulous recreation of the Jupiter-6 analog synthesizer. The Mercury-6 captures all that is exceptional in this treasured polyphonic classic, boosts its extraordinary feature set for today’s DAW production and workflow, and celebrates the ground-breaking innovation from the era that changed music forever. If you’ve long yearned to explore the Jupiter-6, you’ll love Mercury-6.

Cherry Audio’s Mercury-6 brings the Jupiter-6 experience into the future and celebrates the invaluable contribution that MIDI itself has made to the music community over the past 40 years. Mercury-6 captures all that is exceptional in this classic and boosts the extraordinary feature set and functionality for today’s DAW production and workflow. Cherry Audio has added velocity sensitivity, improved the split mode, and added a layer mode capable of stacking two different sounds simultaneously with per-layer stereo panning, detuning, and sustain. A panel control lets users easily select and navigate between these layers and includes a utility function for exchanging settings between the lower and upper layers, or even between presets. And with polyphony extended to 16 notes, Mercury-6 won’t easily run out of voices.

Cherry Audio has reproduced the arpeggiator, including the hidden Down/Up mode of the original, and augmented it by adding a Random mode and MIDI tempo sync. A chord memory mode enables multiple notes to be stored and played back with a single key. Cherry Audio has also improved the functionality of the LFOs with a retrigger for LFO-1 and an always-on option for LFO-2 — both syncable to MIDI tempo.

Cherry Audio has also introduced an integrated studio-quality effects panel with distortion, phaser, flanger/chorus, delay, and reverb. With additional touches such as per-layer drift control, over 500 expertly designed presets, and flexible MIDI mapping, the Mercury-6 Synthesizer will satisfy both vintage synth aficionados and today’s music producer.

Highlights of the Mercury-6
Highly optimized, massive dual-layer voicing architecture with 16 polyphonic voices per layer.

Keyboard split or stacked layer modes allow two simultaneously playable layers, with separate per-layer controls for all parameters, including effects.

Two VCOs per voice with combined waveform capabilities: triangle, ramp sawtooth, noise, and square or variable pulse

Accurate reproduction of the original’s advanced VCO-2 to VCO-1 FM cross-modulation for searing tones

Precisely implemented portamento and glissando modes

Exactingly replicated arpeggio section with MIDI tempo sync, the hidden Down/Up mode of the original, and the addition of a Random mode

Per-layer drift control for oscillators and filter frequencies for authentic analog character

Panel Control for selecting layer controls, including extensive utility functions for duplicating and exchanging synthesis and effects parameters between layers and presets.

Cherry Audio’s popular Focus zoom-in feature, as well as standard UI zoom and resize via drag

Highly optimized coding for optimal performance with ultra-low CPU load, and multithreaded processing for presets using Split and Layer modes

Requirements
macOS Requirements: 10.13 or above. macOS 13 Ventura supported. 64-bit required. Native Apple M1 processor support, including Apple M1 Ultra. 3.4 GHz Quad-Core or M1 CPU with 8GB of RAM is recommended.

Windows Requirements: Windows 7 or above (including Windows 11), 64-bit required. Quad-core computer with 8GB of RAM is recommended.

Internet connection required for product activation.