Cherry Audio Teases Vintage Digital Synth Reveal for March 31

Cherry Audio's YouTube channel lit up on March 20 with a short teaser titled "March 31 - A True Synth Gem Returns," and the description line cuts straight to it: "Vintage Digital Returns on March 31. Get Your Glitch On." That's the entirety of what the company has officially said, and it's doing exactly what a good tease is supposed to do.

The clip, credited musically to Mike Martin, runs short enough that its full transcript consists of two words: "Heat. Heat." The on-screen language splits between two framings. The video title leans into "A True Synth Gem Returns," while the description copy goes with "Vintage Digital Returns" — a phrase that positions whatever is coming squarely in digital synthesis territory rather than the analog side of the spectrum, where a lot of soft-synth nostalgia currently clusters.

Cherry Audio has made its name as a developer that takes vintage synthesis seriously. Their previous releases include emulations of instruments like the Elka Synthex, the Moog Polymoog, and the Roland Juno-106, built to run as VST/AU plugins with attention to circuit-level behavior. The "Vintage Digital" framing in this new teaser is notable precisely because digital-era instruments, think FM engines, early wavetable hardware, and late-80s workstation chips, have historically been harder to emulate convincingly than their analog counterparts.

The video had pulled 1,545 views, 79 likes, and 44 comments as of the captured page data, which is a modest number for a reveal teaser but consistent with Cherry Audio's 16,400-subscriber channel, where the audience skews toward people who already know what they're buying rather than casual browsers.

What exactly returns on March 31 remains unconfirmed. Cherry Audio has not named a specific instrument, model number, or product family in any of the supplied materials. "Vintage Digital" is a broad category. It covers everything from the Yamaha DX7 and Korg M1 to the Casio CZ series and the E-mu Emulator. The "Get Your Glitch On" tagline adds another data point, suggesting something with a character that goes beyond clean, polished digital output. Something that misbehaves in interesting ways.

March 31 is eight days out. Given Cherry Audio's track record, the announcement will almost certainly come with a demo version and audio samples available on launch day.