This short documentary takes a look at electronic music experimentation in the soundtracks to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.… Read More Electronic Music Experimentation In The Films Of Alfred Hitchcock
Hammond has been known for organs, rather than synths, with a few notable exceptions….… Read More Is Hammond Introducing A Synthesizer + Organ Hybrid?
Sweetwater synth guru Daniel Fisher shared this in-depth tour of the Hammond Novachord, one of the first polyphonic synthesizers.
Hollow Sun has introduced Novachord – the first and only soundset from the legendary Hammond Novachord: Using divide-down oscillators (the world’s first?), the Novachord was fully polyphonic. These pass through resonators, hi-and lo-pass filters and a simple but effective envelope shaper. What is particularly impressive is that the Novachord had LFOs and envelope shapers for… Read More Hammond Novachord, The First Synthesizer, Now Available As A Virtual Instrument
Free Music Software: Hollow Sun (the sound developers that are working on the Hammond Novachord sample library) have released a free sound pack that features bass synth samples from the Novation Bass Station: What’s on offer here are 30 excellent synth bass sounds that cover a wide range of genres, uses and applications and which… Read More Free BassStation Sound Pack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSECwN4v7ZU This video offers a taste of what may be the ultimate vintage synthesizer – the Hammond Novachord.
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This is a new photo, via sound developers Hollow Sun, of the extremely rare Hammond Novachord – considered by many to be the first polyphonic synthesizer (1939). Pretty sexy for a 70-year old – but it’s a sexy beast! Check out the demo below for a taste of the Novachord sound:
Hollow Sun, the guys that are sampling an extremely rare Hammond Novachord polyphonic synth from the 1930s and recreating it as a virtual instrument, have released a new audio demo based on the samples they’ve made: [display_podcast] Let me know what you think of the sound of a 70 year-old synth!
Hollow Sun has announced plans for a new virtual instrument based on the rare and amazing Hammond Novachord – a polyphonic analog synthesizer released in 1939! The Novachord is sort of the B3 of synthesizers – a huge, unwieldy beast that sounds like nothing else. Unlike the B3, though, the Hammond Novachord has largely been… Read More The Hammond Novachord, A Polyphonic Analog Synth From 1939, Goes Virtual
