Rather, DIVA’s semi-modular architecture enables you to freely mix and match oscillators, filters and envelopes modelled on those of a range of hardware heavyweights – the Minimoog Model D, Korg MS20, Oberheim SEM, and Roland Alpha Juno, Juno-60, Jupiter-6, Jupiter-8 and JP-8000 – to create your own hybrid instruments. Still regarded by many as the last word in analogue emulation plugins, almost a decade after its release, u-he’s stunning ‘Dinosaur Impersonating Virtual Analogue’ stands apart from the rest of our contenders here in that it doesn’t, strictly speaking, emulate ‘ a classic synth’.
