However, it soon became obvious that developing the hardware would have taken years, so Urs offered to turn the core design into a freeware softsynth.
Based on a design similar to Roland’s classic Juno 60, a few modules and novel features could be added without making the product too expensive. A reader survey and follow-up on forum posts provided a pool of ideas for a low-cost hardware analogue synth, which Mic ‘Moogulator’ Irmer collected and used to develop quite a powerful concept. Tyrell is the name of a project by the German online magazine.
