Native Instruments has released SuperStarSaw, a synthesizer built with A. G. Cook, the PC Music founder and 2025 BRIT Producer of the Year, around the stacked sawtooth technique that runs through his work with Charli xcx, Caroline Polachek, and Oklou. The instrument grew out of a two-year collaboration in which Native Instruments’ design team worked directly from Cook’s own patches and sessions, developing a production habit built on painstaking multi-instance layering into a single playable instrument.
At its core are two independent 16-saw oscillator banks. A 4-corner X/Y Morpher stores four distinct patch states and lets a player interpolate between them in real time, replacing what would normally take extensive automation with a single gesture. Chord, scale, and quantize tools keep harmonic exploration grounded, while controlled off-grid deviation leaves room for intentional dissonance. Per-voice glide and offset controls handle the pitch smears and stereo motion that shape Cook’s sound.
SuperStarSaw ships with a preset library built around blissed-out harmonies, metallic dissonance, ravey leads, and unstable glides. Built-in chorus, delay, and reverb sit alongside low-pass, band-pass, and high-pass filters at 2-pole and 4-pole slopes, and mono/poly switching covers leads, basses, stacks, and chords without leaving the plugin. SuperStarSaw integrates with Komplete Kontrol keyboards and Maschine. Logo and morpher design work comes from Simon Whybray, Cook’s longtime visual collaborator.
Cook has described the goal as expressive range rather than novelty, saying he wanted an instrument that “could turn itself inside out with a single click or drag.” That framing tracks with what’s under the hood — a 4-corner morph target is a performance control, not a preset browser, and the constraint tools exist so a player can push toward dissonance without losing the thread back to something musical.
What makes SuperStarSaw worth a look isn’t the spec sheet so much as who built it. Cook’s supersaw sound is recognizable enough to place on the radio; here, that recognizability gets turned back into an instrument shaped by someone who built the sound by hand, session after session, before there was a shortcut.
SuperStarSaw is available now for Windows and macOS at $99 / €99.
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