The Hollow Sun Novachord is now available in Kontakt 3 forma

[Hollow Sun]

The Hollow Sun Novachord is now available in Kontakt 3 format!!!

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

It can be bought as a direct download at Hollow Sun and was released on Saturday, January 30th 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.

Many of the programs 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 the 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!!

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 some of them, we've also taken the Novachord to a level Laurens Hammond and his colleagues could only have dreamed of, using modern 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...







More Novachord action at NOVACHORD.CO.UK ... a new website I've set up to deal with the project specifically with audio demos, videos, photos of the restoration, instrument history, our Novachord's history, etc..

Cheers,


Steve