Hollow Sun CDs now available!!!!

[hollowsun]

Hi everyone,

At long last, the first of the Hollow Sun CDs are now available to buy on-line at Hollow Sun

The titles availlable are the FS1r, J/XV, M/01 and Vintage Volume 1 collections and as a special introductory offer, the Vintage Volume 1 collection will be bundled free with any CDs you buy.

At $55 each, the CDs represent tremendous value for money because with Chicken Systems' Multi-Format Installer, these CDs are compatible with a wide range of popular software and hardware samplers that include EXS24, HALion, GigaStudio, Kontakt, Reason and, of course, Akai S5/6000, Z4/8 and MPC4000.

Find out more details at the Hollow Sun shop:

http://www.hollowsun.com/cds

Orders can be placed and paid for by credit card and they will be shipped to you within 3-4 working days.

Looking forward to your orders

Best regards,


Steve
website : http://www.hollowsun.com
forum : http://hollowsun.proboards41.com/index.cgi

[Bassballjg]

This is a great deal, and in my opinion the most important synth-oriented soundware development of today along with SS2.

To have the Hollow Sun library on a multiformat disc is worth the money in time savings alone. Time saved in downloading and translation, which I can tell you from experience is a lot of time. And translations can be hit or miss and may require more programming time to get the patch playably tweaked. With this, thanks to UFO or I think it's being called MFI technology, you get to install proper patches for your format, so it's plug and play. Not that that would stop you from tweaking anyway, but now it will be for creative rather than useability reasons.

A lot of us who use sample-based synths have been using Hollow Sun samples for years. Not just because they were free, but because they sounded good. Simply put, the library's quality speaks for itself in breadth, audio fidelity and smooth looping. It's been a go-to source for vintage sounds for a lot of musicians as a free service, and now these commercial products take that value to the next level.

You can make an analogy between the Kjaerhus Classic and Golden series. With the Classic series as with Hollow Sun's free downloads, you get basic production quality stuff, but with the Golden Series and now the Hollow Sun discs, you get world-class products with more depth at a decent price.

The other value aspect of the discs is that you get material otherwise not available from the free download service, and you get it in focused collections of an instrument, or family of instruments, ready to go for a fraction of what it would cost to find one of these out-of-production classic synths, keys and beatboxes.

Some of you might be wondering what are the differences between the Hollow Sun products and the Dangerous bear products. Well, I think that there are good reasons (beyond the obvious self-interested ones) to have some of both depending on your needs.

Simply put, one is more detailed library-wise having more material and is in some different formats like Kontakt, EXS24 and HALion and Giga, whereas the other has more dedicated native programming being more focused on treating soft-samplers as sample playing synths and has some different formats like sf2, Wusikstation, Battery and Reason support including rex and ReDrum.

With the Hollow Sun discs, if you want to turn Kontakt into an FS1r, that's the way to go. If you use Reason, Wusikstation or ST2(coming soon), you get original native programming for those synths using the Hollow Sun samples as the elements by choosing Dangerous Bear. The two lines compliment each other. Think of Hollow Sun as being an homage to the great sounds of classic synths, and think of Dangerous Bear as a contemporary preset library based on those vintage sounds. Speaking of which, dBu's Hollow Sun Classic Beatbox is due out this Friday. That announcement in deatil will be in another thread.

In any case, buying these discs is giving something back to someone we all owe a lot to, Steve Howell. We owe him not just for keeping the free service going all this time, but for all his work as a sampling pioneer. Just read the history on the HS website and you'll understand. But the biggest favor you will be doing is for yourself in having these sounds on your hard drive and in your music.