Steampunk vst's?
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- KVRAF
- 2117 posts since 24 Feb, 2004 from Germany
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- KVRist
- 43 posts since 11 Nov, 2007 from Auckland, New Zealand
Interesting links everyone. Thanks for the thread.
@WOK: Of course Neil Peart has a steampunk kit! I should have known!
@WOK: Of course Neil Peart has a steampunk kit! I should have known!
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Mac of BIOnighT Mac of BIOnighT https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=70598 - KVRAF
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- 2521 posts since 3 Jun, 2005 from Italy
There are many cool looking plugs out there, which can only make me happy 
But I see there's basically no real steampunk looking one 
An idea for all dvelopers?
But I see there's basically no real steampunk looking one An idea for all dvelopers?
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- KVRAF
- 1597 posts since 15 Jan, 2005 from Vales Of Glamorgan, South Wales, UK
Come on, chaps - THE original steampunk synth...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSECwN4v7ZU
Cheers,
Steve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSECwN4v7ZU
Cheers,
Steve
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
Original would have to be the Telharmonium. Actual Victorian-era additive synthesizer, building-sized.* Live music delivered to subscribers via dedicated landlines, played on large horn speakers.
[edit: I'd still love to have the Novachord samples, if I had anything that would play 'em. Someday maybe.]
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* Mk. II and Mk. III weighed 200 tons each.
[edit: I'd still love to have the Novachord samples, if I had anything that would play 'em. Someday maybe.]
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* Mk. II and Mk. III weighed 200 tons each.
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Mac of BIOnighT Mac of BIOnighT https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=70598
- KVRAF
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- 2521 posts since 3 Jun, 2005 from Italy
The Telharmonium, magnificent!! If I could go back in time, I'd love to hear it (I'd probably be disappointed, soundwise, but it'd be so very thrilling!!)Meffy wrote:Original would have to be the Telharmonium.
Here's the story http://120years.net/machines/telharmonium/index.html
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- KVRAF
- 1597 posts since 15 Jan, 2005 from Vales Of Glamorgan, South Wales, UK
Weeeeeelllll...Meffy wrote:Original would have to be the Telharmonium. Actual Victorian-era additive synthesizer, building-sized.* Live music delivered to subscribers via dedicated landlines, played on large horn speakers.
The Telharmonium was more of an organ (in fact, Hammond used some of the basic ideas as the basis for his tonewheel organs) and was quite short lived. It WAS the first time people had heard amplified music and was quite a novelty, the idea that music could be piped into hotels, etc., but after the initial novelty factor, the public soon tired of it, complaining of poor sound.
This is quite a good documentary on it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPlbXl81Rs0
It's in three parts - the others are there too.
Cheers,
Steve
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
This fits soooo many of the synths I grew up with. What a long, strange trip it's been.hollowsun wrote:after the initial novelty factor, the public soon tired of it, complaining of poor sound.
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- KVRAF
- 4321 posts since 26 Jun, 2004
THANKYOU!hollowsun wrote: This is quite a good documentary on it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPlbXl81Rs0
i had no idea there was a doc about that thing!
that guy was ahead of his time on many levels.
it is amazing that his anachronistic genius was ever recognized even the little that it was.
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- KVRAF
- 2041 posts since 22 Nov, 2003 from Mars, Solar System
this is NOT Steampunk
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Mac of BIOnighT Mac of BIOnighT https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=70598
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2521 posts since 3 Jun, 2005 from Italy
But it's so kitchy that I wish I had it 
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- KVRAF
- 4321 posts since 26 Jun, 2004
more pics??
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- KVRAF
- 1597 posts since 15 Jan, 2005 from Vales Of Glamorgan, South Wales, UK
Glad to have helped!highkoo wrote:THANKYOU!
i had no idea there was a doc about that thing!
In fairness, Cahill was only exploiting known organ (some today may say 'additive synth' techniques) technology. Innovative in its own right, of course, especially the 'piped music' aspect of it - that was truly innovative.highkoo wrote:that guy was ahead of his time on many levels.
it is amazing that his anachronistic genius was ever recognized even the little that it was.
But Hammond's Novachord was the first instrument/synthesizer that bears any resemblance to what we use today... and he was doing this, with valve technology, in 1939....
A basic waveform fed through a bank of filters with envelope shaping and pitch modulation using a 'programmable' front panel of knobs to create your own sounds. It even had two 'presets' selectable from a front panel switch.
THIS VIDEO may interest you.
Cheers,
Steve
