MNTRA has released Quasar-106, a Juno-inspired filter, chorus, and drive plugin for adding motion, width, and analog color to any source.
Most filter plugins use static digital approximations. Quasar-106 is built on true analog modelling. We model how physical components interact, warm up, and push back when driven. The result: a filter that sings. A chorus that drifts. Drive that stays musical at the top end where digital clipping falls apart.
Two filter slopes: 24dB Juno-style punch, plus a smoother 12dB mode the original never had. Three chorus modes. Anti-aliased drive. Vintage aging in one knob.
Features:
- Filter – 24dB + 12dB:
- The punchy Juno-style 4-pole contour alongside a smoother 2-pole mode the original never offered.
- Modeled for character; neither slope is a compromise.
- Chorus – Three Modes:
- Mode I: slow, deep, oceanic.
- Mode II: fast, tight, shimmering.
- Mode I+II: both at once: thick, animated, and alive.
- Stereo width expands up to 2.5x. Refined into what we think it always should have been.
- Drive – Vintage-Style Saturation:
- From subtle analog warmth to full harmonic grit.
- Clean at the top end where digital clipping falls apart.
- The way circuits actually warm up.
- Vintage Aging:
- Chorus drift.
- High-end darkening.
- Rising noise floor.
- Resonance wobble.
- Forty years of beautifully aged electronics, dialed in from a single control.
- Modeled Circuit Motion:
- Push resonance and the filter sings, wobbles, and pushes back like a physical circuit.
- Safe Mode keeps it musical on stage.
Pricing & Availability
Quasar-106 is available for the introductory price of $19 until June 16th (Reg. $49) for macOS and Windows in VST3, AU and AAX plugin formats.
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