With Cassandra and Riak, the tradeoff between consistency and availability is tunable.

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Normally you'd tune these things within whatever game you're playing, but quite often games will be missing some tunable parameter that you crave.

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Alongside the analog oscillators and filters are digital oscillators and effects, plus tunable feedback loops and bit-crushing effects that no other synth has ever had.

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