Today's Update:
I have spent 8 hours or so now on recording, capturing, dehumming, and assembling every working note for two more patches into raw sample sets for Steve to work on. This time it's been the trumpet timbre you all heard the other day and also a warm piano like timbre. It is a labour of love just to get this far. Steve then has to tune each note, very carefully loop them manually pushing his 20+ years experience to the limit as anything with vibrato switched on is an absolute pig to loop. Now bare in mind that Steve has all sorts of automated looping tools at his fingertips and he still choses to loop these by hand - this reminds me of those who design pcbs - the very best engineers do everything manually and wouldn't dream of using an autorouter. They then have to be assembled into multisamples and any missing notes filled in as best as possible. The final icing on the cake is to add outboard.
This afternoon I had reverted to play testing and I must say that some of these are just staggering considering that this is simply raw Novachord fed into outboard and furthermore these samples are really playing over several seconds - they are living and breathing, not simply a few waveforms looped in an editor.
I am absolutely in love with the ensembles we have produced using this beast. The Novachord is more than the world's first String Machine, although I must admit it does it damn well! And before anyone accuses us of cheating - you can make the real thing sound just like this too - albeit slightly more out of tune in my case. Phil Cirocco's recordings on "Music Of the Electron" are proof of this.
Again, please excuse the occasional click and pop - my laptop isn't really up to this!
Strings Galore! Novachord 346 Ensemble Demo - Played in Kontakt 4:
http://www.last.fm/music/D.A.Wilson/_/S ... ?autostart
Stop the Press!
I've just had an email from Thomas Grillo, a very talented Theremin player. He wants to overdub this recording with his Theremin. Wow!.. 70 Year old Novachord vs 80 year old Theremin! Now that's not a recording you hear every day!!
