Polymax (Universal Audio) - Analog Quadrifecta (Presets Inspired by the Jupiter 8, Minimoog, Prophet 5 & Juno 106
Polymax Quadrifecta Project
Love the sound of the Roland Jupiter 8, the Moog Mini Moog, The Roland Juno 106/60, Sequential Prophet 5 and many other vintage analog and digital classic synths?
Well this is the ultimate "In the Box" classic, rare, vintage and exceptional sounds (Cloned from the real vintage instruments) without getting tied down by CPU, while also getting the use of the amazing polymax filters and envelopes that mode these synths so very well. The 4 Pole filter, very low CPU, FM, wave mixing and snappy envelopes of Polymax really set it apart from other plugins and it has the amazing ability to sound incredible for vintage classic synth sounds , but also modern classics and inbetween (eg Synthwave, Chillwave, Lofi etc). It is so very underrated and so simple to use, no menu diving, no extra pages to tab through. It is right there, a very stable plugin in my experience and sounds so very good.
*****Update V8 now available - 7 months since project start *******
- Another 50+ "No Fill" Sounds - 281 Sounds Now all made from the init patch, anything below par gets deleted.
- More of the "Classic 4" (Why it is called Quadfifecta) sounds. Jupie-88, Jun-6, Mini-D, Prophi-5
- Added Some new synth catagories - Borg, DEX77, D5050, OB-Wun, Eminent,, (You can guess what these are), CS80.
- A super, super nice synth string pad (faves are stared), a few exceptional dance classic sounds, Chillwave Lofi sounds and I worked on getting some real nice new Leads and Keys.
- Added a Category called "Famous" which is sounds from Famous songs I cloned (type "famous" in search bar to audition)
- Tenalock - Jun-6 Chorus made for Ableton Live 12 Standard (Included in Demo Track in Zip File)
- Tenalock Shimmer Reverb made for Ableton Live 12 Standard (Included in Demo Track in Zip File)
- Demo Track for Ableton Live 12 Standard which you may find very helpful to learn from.
To check out the new sounds type "new" in the search bar and audition them.
You can also select the bass catagory for example in the polymax software, then if you want a "mini-d" bass, just type "mini", it is so fast and easy.
Well hope you enjoy this update & music making.
Happy 2026
Tenalock
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Note about Catagories:
If you resave the files they lose their catagory, I edited all the json files to get them searchable by catagory which as above is great for very quickly finding sounds. Why do they lose their category? No idea, but I just may adjust them sightly in a track I made and the sounds are saved in your session so it isnt much of a drama and the original sounds just stay the same if you dont save them in Polymax so you can still seach by a catagory like "Bass", "Lead", "Keys" etc, then type Jupie-88 to instantly see all Jupie-88 Bass sounds.
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*****Update V7 now available - 6 months since project start *******
Search "New" in the Polymax browser to see the extra newset of great new sounds just added as shown in the video above
A selection of the classic synth bass patches I have designed, no fill sounds, only the very best. Based on the Prophet 5 (cloned from my own Prophet 5), cloned from a real minimoog, a real juno 60 and a real juno 106. (All Sounds auditioned in the lastest version)
THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT
Huge additions, decided I needed to take influenece from Omnisphere (best sound designers imo) & Arturia.
All my now 200 presets made over 6 months are from the inti patch, 100% no fill sounds. I used sylenth1 for 15 years with my vintage analog gear because it was so low on cpu, so quick to program and well.. really good. I decided to start using the vastly underated polymax instead. Most of these are on my fave vintage analog synth patches and patches I have designed for other synths over that last decades, many based on the classic "rare pokemon" sounds as I describe them.
Very Low CPU, vastly underpriced, very fast to work with (no menu diving/ page changing), super good filter & snappy ENVs. Then it has FM, sync and wave morphing. Only 2 oscillators but I actually prefer that, less risk of thin out of phase sounds. Amazing stereo spread options.
In addition to the Quadrifecta JUN6 (Juno106 influenced) | Jupi88 (Jupiter8 influenced) | Mini d (Minimoog influenced | Prophi (Prophet 5 influenced)
I added 100 new sounds:
Keys
Bells
FX
Pads
Strings
Drums / Percussion
Leads
Like I said, not fill sounds, this has taken 100s of hours to do.
The best way to search them is in teh search bar just type "bass", there they are, but I have now also catagorised them using universal audios "Type" categorisation. So now you can click the strings button for example and it will show them like this.
I have not undated all the sounds listed below yet, ran out of energy, but rest assured they are the best set of retro classic analog/ classic digital/ essential sounds /full pack & production kit.
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This plugin has all the ingredients to attempt to replicate the vintage classic analogs together with a very low price, a stable plugin, a low latency and very easy, very quick preset management. Also the effects are really good and it has the most amazing stereo spread options, instant, no messing around furtherinto the mix for stereo field.
Most importantly, the right filters, snappy enough envelopes and the most awesome wave morphing. Truely impressed with this plugin.
So I sat down and got to work modelling from my the real analog versions of the synths, using my 20 years experience of sound design to select the kind of sounds (only the really special ones for each synth) I want ready to go for working easily in the box. Sometime I replace them with the real thing if I think a track is good enough, sometimes I don't need to.
I have captured the flavour of each classic analog synthesizer with the sounds I want ready to go at any time working in my daw with latency not seeming to become a problem on an M2 Mac. This plugin is not a CPU hog like so many others that can grind creative flow to a halt or add extra processes to your workflow that cant be quickly and easily undone.
Why "Quadrifecta"? Well I think sounds inspired by these 4 analog classic synthesizers, the Roland Jupiter 8, The Moog Minimoog, the Sequential Prophet 5 and the Roland Juno 106 are the true classics in my own opinion, exacly the sounds I want quick easy access to.
130 Patches -Preset List - Every one crafted from the Init patch.
(Grouped in their classic analog synthesizer families)
In line with companies like Arturia, Cherry Audio etc I have chosen non Tradmark terms to identify what synths each group of sounds they influenced by.
Set 1 is called "Jupie-88" - influenced by the Roland Jupiter 8
The Patches
Tenalock - Jupie-88 WONKY Lead
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Wild
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Wild Arp
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Unison God
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Tone Match
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Synthwave Sparkle Top Bell
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Sync n go Sweep
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Sync Classic lead
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Sync Bass
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Sub Reece Bass
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Style Brass
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Stye Magic Arpy
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Stye Key
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Sparkly
Tenalock - Jupie-88 SpArkly High
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Retrotech Bell
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Res Sweep
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Reflection Pad
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Porto Arp Brass
Tenalock - Jupie-88 PIzza Face
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Pad Perfect the best add Tal Chorus I & II
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Pad and Biphase
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Miami Bass
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Miami Bass lower
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Miami Bass Clsssic
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Live Pad
Tenalock - Jupie-88 LFO Trigger Stab
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Lead Porto
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Good Basic lead
Tenalock - Jupie-88 FM Giorgio Bass
Tenalock - Jupie-88 FM Bass
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Dust
tenalock - Jupie-88 Classica Lead
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Classic Leader
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Classic ARP Bass
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Chords
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Cars
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Brass Phaser
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Brass Flanger
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Brass Classic
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Bell PAD IN CASE
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Bell 3
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Bell 2
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Bell 2 Wonky
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Bell 1
Tenalock - Jupie-88 BASS
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Bass Class
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Acen Arp
Tenalock - Jupie-88 80s Pad
Tenalock - Jupie-88 - Flanger Arp
Tenalock - Jun6-6 Epiano0 Keys
Set 2 is called Mini-D - influenced by the Moog Minimoog
Tenalock - Mini-D THE Preset
Tenalock - Mini-D THE Preset filter down
Tenalock - Mini-D Porto LEad
Tenalock - Mini-D Low Bass
Tenalock - Mini-D Funk Res
Tenalock - Mini-D Emerson Bass
Tenalock - Mini-D Crazy Arp
Tenalock - Mini-D Classic Madonna Bass
Tenalock - Mini-D class Bass
Tenalock - Mini-d Chameleon Bass
Tenalock - Mini-D Bass The One
Tenalock - Mini-D Bass The One ARP
Tenalock - Mini-D Bass Arp
Tenalock - Mini-d Arp bass 70s synth
Tenalock - Jupie-88 Wow Bass
Set 3 is called Prophi-5 - influenced by the Sequential Prophet 5
Tenlalock - Prophi-5 Eariee Pad
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Sync Bass
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Syc Sequence LEAD
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Staccato Bass
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Spooky Pad
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Snap Bass
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Playing Around FX
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Padness
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Pad of Pads
Tenalock - Prophi-5 OB Brass Lead
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Luxer LEAD
Tenalock - Prophi-5 LFO lead
Tenalock - Prophi-5 LFO lead 2
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Fave Bass
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Faux Lately Bass
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Epic Pad
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Chuck Bass
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Bell
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Bassoidal
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Bass Vibe
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Arp bass disco
Tenalock - Prophi-5 - padness
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Subtle Keys
Tenalock - Prophi-5 Reece Bass again
Tenalock - Prophi-5 OES brass String
Tenalock - Prophet 10 Part 2 Pan RIGHT. Stereo split example (So lush in stereo it is rediculous)
Tenalock - Prophet 10 Part 1 Pan LEFT
Set 4 is called Jun-6 - influenced by the Roland Jupiter Juno 106
Tenalock - Jun6-6 Epiano0 Keys
Tenalock - Jun-6 Wony Pad Dream
Tenalock - Jun-6 Wonky Soft Pad
Tenalock - Jun-6 Wonky Goodness
Tenalock - Jun-6 Soft String Synth Pad
Tenalock - Jun-6 SEffective Hit
Tenalock - Jun-6 Runaway add Shimmer
Tenalock - Jun-6 Perfect Chord
Tenalock - Jun-6 Magic Dust Arp
Tenalock - Jun-6 Harp Keys
Tenalock - Jun-6 Fantazian
Tenalock - Jun-6 Epiano1 Keys
Tenalock - Jun-6 Classic Tone Lead
Tenalock - Jun-6 Chords Classic
Tenalock - Jun-6 Chords Classic Wonk
Tenalock - Jun-6 Choir
Tenalock - Jun-6 Buzzy Lead
Tenalock - Jun-6 Brass use Shimmer Verb
Tenalock - Jun-6 Bell 5
Tenalock - Jun-6 Bell 4
Tenalock - Jun-6 Bell 3
Tenalock - Jun-6 Bell 2
Tenalock - Jun-6 Bell 1
Tenalock - Jun-6 Bass Funk
Tenalock - Jun-6 FM Techno Arp
Tenalock - Jun 6 Faux Piano Keys
Toolkit/FX/Drums/Extras
Tenalock - Porto Epiano
Tenalock - Pad Perfect
Tenalock - Pad Perfect the best add Tal Chorus I & II
Tenalock - Move Fm
Tenalock - FX 4 Bar Noise Sweep Up
Tenalock - FX 4 Bar Noise LFO Sweep Up
TENALOCK - FX 2 Bar Noise Sweep down
Tenalock - DX7 Faux Lately Bass
These extra tool help with production efficiency, ready to go.
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Work. Super Efficiently With The Polymax Patches
Simply type "Jup" "Jun" "Mini" or "Proph" into the Polymax to quickly access each set.
Simply type "Bass" "Lead" "fx" "bell" "key"" "pad" "string" into the search bar of polymax to find the sounds at lightening speed
Free TAL - Chorus plugin- You should add this to the Jun-6 Patches and it will really tranform some of them. TAL did such an amazing job on this and afetr years it still stands up as a great digital emulation of the OG. Shout to to TAL as an amazing company.
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Split and Multis
Don't forget that most DAWS will let you make these no problme in an instrument rack.
I have been experiementing and the possibilites are endless. eg Prophet based low brass growl with a Jupiter inspired pads with shimmer reverb, it sounds so good it is rediculous.
I have a patch for panning one to the left and one to teh right and it is rediulous sounding in teh stereo field.
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So get learning synthesis from these Universal Audio Polymax patches, get experimenting and get creating.
I am really hoping this pack of polymax presets is successful so I can put in more time to create more . I took a big risk putting in so much time with a lesser know and used plugin, but I think this plugin is truely underrated by a massive margin and hope to see its adoption increase significantly.