Zorba

Built on the Pulsar Modular P900 analog heritage, Zorba can be a Juno on your first patch, a Jupiter on your second, and something neither could have imagined on your third.

The Pulsar P900 Heritage

Zorba started from a simple question: what would a synthesizer sound like if it carried the warmth and soul of classic analog machines, but wasn't boxed in by their original architecture? The Junos, Jupiters, Prophets, and Moogs all made brilliant compromises in oscillator count, modulation paths, and envelope destinations. Those constraints became their character, and that character became the sound of decades of records.

Today's soft synths can offer hundreds of parameters and unlimited routings. Zorba doesn't try to win that race. It tries to win on sound, and on the focused depth that only emerges when an instrument has a clear voice.

The signal path honors the Pulsar Modular P900 analog heritage. Both filters share the same 904-F State Variable design. The noise generator runs on its own path with its own HPF and LPF, so breath transients, BBD-style chorus haze, and organ key click sit on top of the main tone without being shaped by it.

The result is an instrument that's immediate. Load a preset and play. Reach for the mod matrix and go as far as the routing will take you. Welcome to Zorba.

Three Voices

Two morphing primaries. One dedicated sub.

VCO1 and VCO2 share a single morph knob that slides continuously between saw, square, triangle, and sine. VCO3 is a fully independent sub oscillator reaching one octave below the main pair, with its own tune, gain, and filter routing.

Two Filters, Four Modes

904-F State Variable. Singing through four zones.

Two independent filters based on the 904-F State Variable design. Low-pass, band-pass, high-pass, notch, each with a resonance curve that passes through clean, self-oscillation, transformer saturation, and the Black Hole rebirth zone.

174 Routes

A mod matrix that connects almost anything.

Ten sources reach 38 unique targets across the synthesizer. Every route has its own depth. Multiple sources can share a target and combine. No slot limits, no setup fee for getting started, the defaults make Zorba musical the moment a key is pressed.

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