Safari Audio Super Chunk Channels 70s Analog Bass Synth Spirit

Safari Audio’s Super Chunk landed as the kind of software bass synth vintage players actually reach for when the room needs low end now. It was the second synth in the company’s new SuperKeys series, following Cubby, and it pushed the line away from generic workhorse territory and toward a very specific job: quick, characterful bass with the spirit of 1970s analog monsters, but none of the maintenance headaches that come with an original machine.

That distinction matters. Super Chunk was not built as a copy of any single classic synth, even if the interface carried a slight Moog Grandmother vibe. Safari Audio framed it as a vintage bass synthesiser, while Gearnews described it as more about the feel of old-school analog bass than the letter of any one circuit. For readers who know the appeal of a monosynth is often in how fast it gets from idea to thump, that was the right brief.

The front panel stayed deliberately lean. Super Chunk centered everything around three oscillator controls, Bite, Sub, and Chunk, with octave switches for each of its three oscillators. That kept programming fast, but the rest of the signal path gave it the proper bass-synth hardware vocabulary: a ladder-style filter with drive, ring modulator, vibrato, overdrive, spring reverb, tone control, and glide. Safari Audio and Thomann both described it as monophonic, which fits the whole design. It was made for one line at a time, not polyphonic wandering.

The useful surprise was the modulation side. Safari Audio’s Geeky Glasses system let ADSR-style assignments reach into places like filter, drive, and ring modulator parameters, so the instrument could move from plain chest hit to something more animated without turning into a menu dive. Safari Audio’s founder said the design was built around fast workflow, thick low end, and fun playable sounds without endless menus, and that showed in the way the synth balanced simplicity against enough movement to keep bass lines alive.

The pricing made the pitch even clearer. Plugin Boutique listed Super Chunk at $39.99, down from $79.99, with the offer running until May 21, 2026. Safari Audio’s download page listed Mac 10.15+ and Windows 64-bit support, and the plugin shipped in VST3, AU, and AAX formats. That combination of low friction, broad compatibility, and old-school attitude is the point here. Super Chunk did not try to become a fragile vintage original in software form. It tried to deliver the part that matters most: immediate, musical bass that sounds like it belongs on records, not in a spec sheet.