Up close and personal with the amazing Hammond Novachord, a polyphonic synthesizer from 1939. It's hardly a Steven Spielberg production but you should be able to get a feel for this incredible instrument. More at www.hollowsun.com or www.novachord.co.uk
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This is a segued montage of samples from the Hammond Novachord #346. The first section is raw Novachord presented in a style appropriate to the era ... eerie stuff reminiscent of early sci-fi films. This moves into a section of Novachord sounds sequenced from an Akai MPC5000 in the style of the 'Berlin' school of electronica (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, etc.) dissolving into a filtered drone using timbral sweeps modelled on the Novachord's 'Resonators' (which are switched but I can take liberties and make the transition variable and smooth). 100% Novachord taken from the sample set available at www.hollowsun.com and http
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A teaser for the forthcoming Hollow Sun 'Novachord' sample set. The soundtrack was created on a Novachord ... a programmable and totally polyphonic valve synth from 1939!!!
A short video clip of the new Hollow Sun VP330 Vocoder+ sample library in action. Nothing spectacular - a quick low-rez screen capture - but should give an idea of how close this is to having the real thing in front of you with the interactive panel. Long multi-samples captured in stereo which authentically re-create this classic vintage keyboard. Thanks for watching! www.hollowsun.com
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A fitting combination of truly 'vintage' instruments - the 1939 Hammond Novachord and the 1920s Theremin. The rich ensemble string sound is played by DA Wilson and the Theremin by leading Theremin supremo and virtuoso, Thomas Grillo. More at www.hollowsun.com, http and www.thomasgrillo.com
This is a rough run through of the presets in Hollow Sun's new 'Oscillosine' retro tube synthesiser for Kontakt 4 and part of the 'Music Laboratory Machines' series. Basically, it's just me going through the presets of this weird and wonderfully eccentric noise making device. More info here : www.hollowsun.com
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A quick demo of Hollow Sun's new addition to the Music Laboratory Machines series. 'Broken' is a Kontakt 4 instrument plays the sounds of valve audio machinery in pain and on the threshold of dying. www.hollowsun.com
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I'm a huge fan of Steampunk ... marrying old Victorian and early 20th century technology with the modern... or adapting modern technology into 'Jules Verne' styling of copper, brass, bakelite and wood ... and it occurred to me that the 1939 Hammond Novachord is the original Steampunk synth - a polyphonic synthesiser capable of making fabulous sounds that are quite ahead of their time but driven by hundreds of valves and capacitors and housed in a glorious wooden case with bakelite knobs and switches and 'Plaskon' keys. So I have put together a montage of Steampunk imagery to accompany a montage of music made entirely using the Novachord samples I am working on. I have segued images found on the net which include some fantastic 'retro-future' computers (some of which are actually fully functional PCs/Macs), Steampunk fashion and some astonishing pictures created by Steampunk artist, Sam Van Olffen (vanolffen.blogspot.com). I hope you enjoy it. More on the Novachord at http
A (very) rough run through of Hollow Sun's new RMI Electrapiano 368x instrument for Kontakt 4.2.2. Each 'tab' has been recorded separately and the GUI behaves just like the real thing allowing you to mix and match and combine the different sounds. There's also the multiFX which allow you to radically transform the sound from distinctly retro to modern. The demo is of a 'work in progress' and there's still some work to be done on it. The video quality is shite, sorry, but the audio shouldn't be too bad. It will give you a taste, a flavour of it if nothing else
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An ambient piece I did using just my Alesis Fusion and some 'old school' tape editing techniques in DSP Quattro and Bias Peak synced with some stunning images by Olivier Cousinou (www.olivier.cousinou.free.fr)
A demo of Hollow Sun's new 'Cognosphere' Music Laboratory Machine. Click on the cog to generate new sounds at random. Not great video quality, sorry, but you get the gist.
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