Cherry Audio Yellowjacket

Yellowjacket synthesizer is a stunning value-packed tribute to the venerable Wasp synthesizer, released by the British synth company EDP in 1978. Cherry Audio has reproduced the singular buzzy tone and drone of this legendary monophonic, digital/analog hybrid, from its quirky oscillators to its distinctive filter. Further influenced by the pioneering spirit of its inventors, we’ve added several innovative features to Yellowjacket, reenvisioning what could have been. These include elements of other EDP instruments, unison and 16-voice polyphony, emulation of the Wasp’s integrated speaker, an expanded multimode filter, and a new-to-Cherry advanced arpeggiator with probability and humanise controls.

We’ve replicated the look of the notorious touch-capacitive yellow and black keyboard of the original, enhanced it with diatonic scales and transpose, and extended it with customizable pressure control with support for expressive channel and polyphonic aftertouch. Perhaps the most exciting feature of Yellowjacket is directly inspired by EDP’s innovative pre-MIDI system that allowed multiple synths to be chained together: multi-voice modes that add adjustable “mini synths” that can provide subtle or extreme variation in tone, single-fingered chords and arpeggiated patterns, lush stereo effects, and more.

In short, there has never been a Cherry Audio plugin quite like Yellowjacket, and we know that today’s musicians and producers will get a real buzz from it.

Yellowjacket includes over 270 spectacular presets
Producers will find immediate inspiration in Yellowjacket’s extensive preset library, created by a talented sound design team led by veteran sound designer James Terris. And don’t miss the Hive Mind for Yellowjacket Preset Pack (sold separately), featuring an additional 100 additional presets by James Dyson.