Kontakt Novachord now available

[Hollow Sun]

To coincide with the 70th anniversary of the very first Novachord being delivered to US president, Franklyn D Roosevelt, as a birthday present from Hammond, the long awaited and much anticipated Hollow Sun Novachord is now available.

The program list is as follows...

NC346 Aetherion.nki
NC346 Altitude.nki
NC346 Anode Strings.nki
NC346 Arcing Coils.nki
NC346 Bakelite.nki
NC346 BrassoChord.nki
NC346 Canned Vintage.nki
NC346 Cathode Sweep.nki
NC346 Cheezachord.nki
NC346 Clavachord.nki
NC346 Deadly One.nki
NC346 Delicate.nki
NC346 Distant Theatre.nki
NC346 Divider Rider.nki
NC346 Doom Strings.nki
NC346 Dry Octaves.nki
NC346 Dual Octave Harpsi.nki
NC346 Electron Beam.nki
NC346 Electron Cloud.nki
NC346 Ensemble.nki
NC346 Fifth Dimension.nki
NC346 Fission Strings.nki
NC346 Flutalto.nki
NC346 Flutter.nki
NC346 Forbidden Planet.nki
NC346 Formant Shift.nki
NC346 Futura.nki
NC346 Futurian.nki
NC346 Glass Filaments.nki
NC346 Grofe Piano.nki
NC346 Harpsarchaic.nki
NC346 HexVibrati.nki
NC346 Hideaway Bass.nki
NC346 High Strings.nki
NC346 High Tension.nki
NC346 HonkaChord.nki
NC346 Induction.nki
NC346 Intonarumori.nki
NC346 Inversion.nki
NC346 JMJachord.nki
NC346 Late Again.nki
NC346 Laurens Of Arabia.nki
NC346 Mains Interference.nki
NC346 Metropolis.nki
NC346 MonoChord 8ve Bass.nki
NC346 MonoChord Bass.nki
NC346 MonoChord Perc Bass.nki
NC346 MonoChord Taurus.nki
NC346 Morphography.nki
NC346 Mysterium.nki
NC346 Nasal Chord.nki
NC346 NeverDream.nki
NC346 NovaBrass.nki
NC346 NovaPad.nki
NC346 NovaVox.nki
NC346 OctaChord.nki
NC346 Octal Base.nki
NC346 OctaSproing.nki
NC346 Octave Strings.nki
NC346 Organics.nki
NC346 Percolator.nki
NC346 Phantastron.nki
NC346 Pipe Organ.nki
NC346 Plinky.nki
NC346 Plucked Anodes.nki
NC346 Qambenik.nki
NC346 Roosevelt's 5th.nki
NC346 Scary Movie.nki
NC346 Sea Of Pentodes.nki
NC346 ShimmerChime.nki
NC346 Shimmeria.nki
NC346 Slightly Broken.nki
NC346 Slow Bows.nki
NC346 Soft Pluck.nki
NC346 Solaris.nki
NC346 Soma.nki
NC346 Space Chime.nki
NC346 Spike.nki
NC346 SpookFX.nki
NC346 Sproing.nki
NC346 Stainless Strings.nki
NC346 Steamline.nki
NC346 SuperNova.nki
NC346 Sylvania's Pad.nki
NC346 Tesla Strings.nki
NC346 TheraChord.nki
NC346 ThermioShimmer.nki
NC346 Toy Trumpet.nki
NC346 Transglobal.nki
NC346 Tube Piano.nki
NC346 Tube Trumpet.nki
NC346 TubeOrgan.nki
NC346 Vangeliron.nki
NC346 Vibratosphere.nki
NC346 Vocan8r.nki
NC346 Vortex Field.nki
NC346 Vox Genie.nki
NC346 Warm French Horn.nki
NC346 Warmth.nki
NC346 Wide Sproing.nki
NC346 Wireless.nki
NC346 World Fair.nki
NC346 X Dry 1S (Acoustic).nki
NC346 X Dry 1S (Direct).nki
NC346 X Dry 2S (Acoustic).nki
NC346 X Dry 2S (Direct).nki
NC346 X Dry 3S (Acoustic).nki
NC346 X Dry 3S (Direct).nki
NC346 X Harpsichord.nki
NC346 X HiStrings.nki
NC346 X MaleVox.nki
NC346 X MissingThe803.nki
NC346 X Modernism.nki
NC346 X NovaChord Vib.nki
NC346 X Novachord.nki
NC346 X Percussive.nki
NC346 X Piano.nki
NC346 X ScaryStrings.nki
NC346 X VibReed.nki
NC346 X WarmEnsemble.nki

120 programs and hundreds of hand crafted 24-bit multi-samples.

Those programs with the 'X' prefix to the name are raw, unadulterated Novachord with no effects or post-processing - this is as close to sitting in front of the real thing as is possible and were carefully programmed (some might say 'modeled'!) by careful comparison with Dan's actual Novachord until they were as indistinguishable as possible. These are a real taste of 1939 - you can almost smell the Bakelite ... a sound of the future that never happened!

The other sounds are variations from the subtle to the outrageous. In the more subtle variations, we have re-created the textures available on the real thing by careful A/B'ing or by carefully listening to recordings of the Novachord from over the decades and trying to re-create those.

However, in many of them, we've also taken the Novachord to a level Laurens Hammond and his colleagues could only have dreamed of, using Kontakt's powerful post-processing with swept filters, etc..

It's interesting though - it almost doesn't matter what modern sonic mangling you apply to the sound, the aroma of warm, living, thermionic technology and Bakelite and musty old documentation hangs in the air!

Just to remind you...







Novachord.co.uk

Hollow Sun

Kontakt users please form an orderly queue

Cheers,


Steve

[Jesse]

Awesome Steve!

I am looking forward to the Fusion version!

I am sure this will be one of my favorites ;D

Take Care ... Jesse

[kpr]

Simply awesome!!!

And congrats for this find too, it is not easy to find something really rare which is still unsampled, but this one is it now!

It is also a move from the analog to the digital world and this helps to keep this kind of cultural rarity "alive" and even a bit more popular.

Great work, Steve

[psionic11]

Excellent, well done, Steve. Must be a great feelign to be a part of history like that ;D

I'll definitely check this out. Quick question -- is the Kontakt version larger than the Fusion version by much?

Once again, thanks for all the work.

[rainbow]

That list of patches looks like a mouthwatering sonic menu ... looking forward to the Fusion version!!

Good job Steve and Dan

Best regards ... Rainbow:)

[markone]

I don't suppose it'll run on the Kontakt player 4 you can down;oad, will it

[markone]

I can see a copy on Kontakt in my future...

Just, not quite yet, as I went and bought a car yesterday!

[Hollow Sun]

Feb 7, 2010 14:57:22 GMT markone said:

I don't suppose it'll run on the Kontakt player 4 you can down;oad, will it

Yes. It works fine in the Kontakt Player ... just like having the real thing ...

But just for 30 minutes at a time when the player (actually the demo of K4) times out. But you can start it back up immediately to resume where you left off.

Cheers,


Steve