KVR Audio

HideawayStudio · Post by **HideawayStudio** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:45 pm

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

tropicalontour · Post by **tropicalontour** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:55 pm

It's rather good, really. Got it at lunch time.

MWSOS · Post by **MWSOS** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:10 pm

HideawayStudio 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....

And you tell the kids today

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

HideawayStudio · Post by **HideawayStudio** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:07 pm

MWSOS wrote:
HideawayStudio 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....
And you tell the kids today

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

Hey thanks, it was a true labour of love... aka several weeks of intense madness!...

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.

Shangsean · Post by **Shangsean** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:47 am

I just listened to the demos... and then I bought it.

Downloading now.

HideawayStudio · Post by **HideawayStudio** » Wed Feb 13, 2013 12:20 am

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.

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:47 pm

I don't see any demos... am I overlooking something?

HideawayStudio · Post by **HideawayStudio** » Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:24 pm

lingyai wrote:I don't see any demos... am I overlooking something?

You're not browsing on an iPhone by any chance??

There are plenty of demos on my blog: http://hideawaystudio.wordpress.com

SoundCloud requires flash which is a problem for some users.

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:11 am

Sorry -- a browser add-in was blocking soundcloud. Nice demos!

hollowsun · Post by **hollowsun** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:14 am

HideawayStudio wrote:SoundCloud requires flash which is a problem for some users.

There's an HTML5 option for embedding Soundcloud stuff into Wordpress which overcomes the iPhone/iPad 'problem'.

Another great release, Dan ... beautiful sounds ... and what a wonderful GUI!

Cheers,

Stephen

don1thedon · Post by **don1thedon** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:19 pm

Pentodian Resonator Choir ... Love it, absolute no brainer!!

synthmagic · Post by **synthmagic** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:46 pm

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.

vicshere · Post by **vicshere** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:13 am

Love this thing, and not the first I bought from Hideaway and really clicked with it straight away. Keep up the good work!

HideawayStudio · Post by **HideawayStudio** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:16 pm

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

Hideaway Studio Releases: The Pentodian Resonator Choir