Hideaway Studio Releases: The Pentodian Resonator Choir
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HideawayStudio HideawayStudio https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=222227
- KVRist
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- 246 posts since 23 Dec, 2009 from UK
A selection of twelve unique synthetic choirs painstakingly made up of 215 hand crafted vocal formants. At least 50% of the samples in this collection were created using a hand configured lab pulse generator, a passive exponential ramp waveshaper and a passive L/C resonator based on the 1938 Novachord which was impedance buffered with the vertical signal stages of a classic 1968 Tektronix Tube Oscilloscope! Each formant was processed with vintage classic analog and tube technology and brought together in the same proven 4-voice layering engine as the Orbitone library....
The Pentodian Resonator Choir is now on sale for the very generous price of £10
https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/ ... ator-choir
Please note that Kontakt 4.2.4 or greater is required.
For demos, download links & background on each of the new instruments to this and all of the recent Hideaway Studio releases for Kontakt please visit my blog....
http://hideawaystudio.wordpress.com
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tropicalontour tropicalontour https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=207157
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- 494 posts since 11 May, 2009
It's rather good, really. Got it at lunch time.
My music is a fusion of jazz and funk. It's called "Junk"
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- KVRist
- 369 posts since 13 Jun, 2006 from Cornwall, UK
And you tell the kids todayHideawayStudio wrote:At least 50% of the samples in this collection were created using a hand configured lab pulse generator, a passive exponential ramp waveshaper and a passive L/C resonator based on the 1938 Novachord which was impedance buffered with the vertical signal stages of a classic 1968 Tektronix Tube Oscilloscope! Each formant was processed with vintage classic analog and tube technology and brought together in the same proven 4-voice layering engine as the Orbitone library....
Sounding great though - I particularly like the 2nd example (from 0:20 to 0:40), and there's always a niche for 'choirish' sounds that don't dominate the mix
Well done that man!
Martin
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HideawayStudio HideawayStudio https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=222227
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Hey thanks, it was a true labour of love... aka several weeks of intense madness!...MWSOS wrote:And you tell the kids todayHideawayStudio wrote:At least 50% of the samples in this collection were created using a hand configured lab pulse generator, a passive exponential ramp waveshaper and a passive L/C resonator based on the 1938 Novachord which was impedance buffered with the vertical signal stages of a classic 1968 Tektronix Tube Oscilloscope! Each formant was processed with vintage classic analog and tube technology and brought together in the same proven 4-voice layering engine as the Orbitone library....
Sounding great though - I particularly like the 2nd example (from 0:20 to 0:40), and there's always a niche for 'choirish' sounds that don't dominate the mix
Well done that man!
Martin
Out of sheer curiosity I tried to wind the clock back 50 years. This is about as old school as it gets. The stuff of rooms full of tube infested lab gear and no synth in sight, in fact no synth in existence.
Few will realise the sheer pain (and ringing ears!) that went into this project (which went on to attract the personal attention of two major pioneering electronic musicians). The initial experimentation trying to turn pulse waves into formants using passive resonator circuits. Tweaking everything little by little and then capturing waveforms then test playing them and then tweaking everything again and capturing some more and play testing again to ensure some kind of consistency over and over for days on end! Endless problems with noise and chasing weird hum loops, tons of material auditioned and then junked, days of layering, blending, processing with analog chorus and EQ'ing....
Never again... well, actually, I did but that's another story.
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- KVRian
- 616 posts since 8 May, 2012 from Sydney, Australia
I just listened to the demos... and then I bought it.
Downloading now.
Downloading now.
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HideawayStudio HideawayStudio https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=222227
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Several have emailed today reporting a "service unavailable" error on checkout. It seems Payloadz have been having server issues but the problem was rectified.
It should be ok now, apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Dan.
It should be ok now, apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Dan.
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- KVRAF
- 2215 posts since 27 Jan, 2011
I don't see any demos... am I overlooking something?
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HideawayStudio HideawayStudio https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=222227
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You're not browsing on an iPhone by any chance??lingyai wrote:I don't see any demos... am I overlooking something?
There are plenty of demos on my blog: http://hideawaystudio.wordpress.com
SoundCloud requires flash which is a problem for some users.
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- KVRAF
- 2215 posts since 27 Jan, 2011
Sorry -- a browser add-in was blocking soundcloud. Nice demos!
- KVRAF
- 1597 posts since 15 Jan, 2005 from Vales Of Glamorgan, South Wales, UK
There's an HTML5 option for embedding Soundcloud stuff into Wordpress which overcomes the iPhone/iPad 'problem'.HideawayStudio wrote:SoundCloud requires flash which is a problem for some users.
Another great release, Dan ... beautiful sounds ... and what a wonderful GUI!
Cheers,
Stephen
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- KVRian
- 1195 posts since 25 Sep, 2002
Pentodian Resonator Choir ... Love it, absolute no brainer!!
- KVRian
- 979 posts since 7 Jan, 2011 from UK
Very nice - I love synth choirs.
Really like the 'Real life' preset as you can just hold a chord and get all this phasing, shifting,sound going on with the phasers.
Really like the 'Real life' preset as you can just hold a chord and get all this phasing, shifting,sound going on with the phasers.
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- KVRist
- 176 posts since 21 Sep, 2007 from Scotland
Love this thing, and not the first I bought from Hideaway and really clicked with it straight away. Keep up the good work!
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HideawayStudio HideawayStudio https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=222227
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I've posted another demo of the Pentodian Resonator Choir in action:
https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/ ... -celestial
More background on this project at: http://hideawaystudio.wordpress.com
https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/ ... -celestial
More background on this project at: http://hideawaystudio.wordpress.com
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