A. G. Cook has spent over a decade building a specific, recognisable wall of detuned sawtooths, the sound underneath Charli xcx's brat, Caroline Polachek's records and production credits for Beyonce. Native Instruments just packaged that exact sound library and sold it for the price of a night out.

What's actually inside Super*Saw?

The engine is built around two independent 16-saw oscillator banks, 32 simultaneous saws in total, with a 4-corner X/Y morpher that blends between preset pairs in real time rather than snapping between fixed patches. On top of that sit quantise, chord and scale tools, a 3-band EQ, chorus, delay, reverb and MIDI Learn, the kind of finishing chain that turns a raw stack of detuned oscillators into something you can drop straight into a mix. Native Instruments and Cook priced the whole thing at $99, GBP89 or EUR99, and it's available immediately, no waitlist, no bundle required.

Is buying someone's presets actually worth it?

Here's the part that separates Super*Saw from the usual signature-artist plugin cash-in: the preset library isn't a curated highlight reel built for a press release, it's pulled straight from Cook's own production sessions, the actual patches he used to build those records. That's a different proposition than a celebrity slapping their name on a stock bank. For $99, a producer gets a specific, named sound designer's working vocabulary rather than a generic "supersaw" preset pack with no attribution. Whether that's worth it depends entirely on whether you want THAT sound, wide, stacked, slightly aggressive detuned sawtooths, as your starting point.

Does A.G. Cook actually make house music?

No, and it's worth being precise about that. Cook founded PC Music in 2013 and built the label into the foundation of hyperpop; his own catalogue and production work sit in pop and hyperpop, not house or techno. But the supersaw itself is a synthesis technique with deep roots across dance music, from trance leads to techno and tech house risers, so a plugin built around someone else's obsessive take on stacking those oscillators is genuinely useful gear for underground producers chasing that specific wide, detuned texture, even if Cook himself isn't part of that scene.

The preset library is sourced directly from Cook's own personal production sessions, not a generic factory demo bank.

Why it matters

Signing a named producer to a synth isn't new, but shipping their actual session presets instead of a marketing-friendly highlight reel is a meaningfully different product decision, and it signals Native Instruments betting that specificity, not genre-neutral versatility, sells plugins in a crowded synth market.

What we think

At $99, this is an easy yes for anyone who's ever tried to recreate a specific supersaw texture from a reference track and given up after twenty minutes of detune knobs. The honesty of the pitch, real session presets rather than a stock bank with a famous name attached, is what makes it worth taking seriously rather than dismissing as a celebrity cash-in.