BÄRK//BRÜTT
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Bärk // Instruments

Not a sample.
The actual chip.

Legendary machines, rebuilt at register level and dropped into your DAW. This is the real 90s handheld sound engine — pulse, wave, noise, the springy stepped sweep. Not samples. Not an approximation.

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BÄRK BRÜTT // live
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The machines

Bärk // Synth◈ Out now
BÄRK BRÜTT

Brütt

The synth. Raw, uncut, the exposed voice of the chip.

  • Channels2 Pulse · Wave · Noise
  • SweepStepped · bipolar 0–9
  • Sequencer16-step · live follow
  • Envelope16-level hardware
  • FormatMax for Live · VST3 · AU
€29one-time
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Bärk // Drums◇ Soon

Drømm

The drum machine. Per-step noise kits, tight and mean.

  • EngineNoise · per-step
  • CutHard note-cut
  • KitsIndependent drums
  • Sequencer16-step · memos
  • FormatMax for Live · VST3 · AU
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Why it's real

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The actual chip

Register-accurate 8-bit emulation of the real sound engine. Pulse duties, noise divisor and 16-level volume, all modelled. Not samples, not an approximation.

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Four true channels

Two pulse, one wave, one noise. The full four-voice 8-bit layout, each channel behaving exactly like the hardware it came from.

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Sweep & slide

The springy, staircase pitch sweep and per-note slide that define the sound. The one gesture the fake-chip plugins never get right.

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Sequencer & arp

A 16-step sequencer with live knob-follow and a built-in arpeggiator, right inside the plugin. No extra tools, no MIDI clip gymnastics.

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Eight pattern banks

Save eight full patterns, A through H, and switch between them on the fly while it plays.

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Stereo & MIDI

Per-channel stereo panning and MIDI-mappable controls throughout, so it plays like a hardware synthesizer, not a preset.

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Runs everywhere

Ships as Max for Live, VST3 and universal AU, dropping straight into Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, GarageBand, Bitwig and Reaper.

The machine died. Its voice didn't. BÄRK rebuilds the sound engines of legendary dead hardware and hands them back to you, playable, in the box you already work in.

Bärk

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About

BÄRK builds software synthesizers from the sound chips of dead hardware. BRÜTT is the first. A register-level 8-bit synthesizer and step sequencer that rebuilds the real pulse, wave and noise voices of a legendary 90s handheld: The actual oscillators, the 16-level hardware envelopes, the springy stepped pitch sweep and per-note slide, all modelled sample-accurate and dropped into your DAW.

No sample packs, no lo-fi filter faking the vibe. Just the raw voice of the chip, MIDI-mappable and instant to play. It runs as a VST3, AU and Max for Live instrument in Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, GarageBand, Bitwig and Reaper, so the real 8-bit sound engine sits inside the session you already work in.