Glyn Barnes


Did I count correctly? - 17 instruments in their total collection

Yep, and what's amazing is that Dan's just gotten started late last year.  Hideaway Studios is cranking them out like hotcakes.  And, unless you're getting a late start, the offerings are all so inexpensive as to be no-brainers.  I don't even bother to listen to the demo tracks when a new one is announced.  I just press add-to-cart and proceed to download.
 
One more thing.  If you check out the Hideaway site in detail, you may be very intrigued by the Novachord restoration project.  If so, head on over to Hollow Sun to pick up the Music Laboratory Machine Novachord offering, which was made using the restored instrument.

THEN I read the credits and noticed that Stephen from Hollow Sun was credited for layering engine, GUI and Graphics.  What a nice collaboration. 

Guilty as charged, m'lud.


Yup, my scriptmeister and I help Dan out with his stuff - it's a nice little 'co-operative' and a bit of fun. Dan's been a chum since we did the Novachord together and as mentioned above, he's a nice bloke. Mad as a bloody box of trumpets and the archetypal boffin - always has a kitchenful of valves and tubes and oscilloscopes and wires and aroma of solder, designing and building bonkers circuits!! 


Just go and buy his stuff - it's cheaper than a evening out down the pub!!




Stephen

Just had a look at the Hideaway site and there is another new product. Price £1.50

After Dark is the latest atmospheric addition to The Blue Zone Series for Kontakt 4.2.4 and above. It comprises of 4 multis and 7 instruments made with several pieces of cherished gear in the studio including the Minimoog (FM plucks), a Studio Electronics Omega 8 (xmod bells), and two high frequency 1960′s tube signal generators mixed to form an audible superheterodyne effect similar to the Theremin…

...Mad as a bloody box of trumpets and the archetypal boffin - always has a kitchenful of valves and tubes and oscilloscopes and wires and aroma of solder, designing and building bonkers circuits!!...


Ah! Don't we all just love the fine scent of solder in the morning after a night out on the town at the pub??  Haha!


I think that'll be my new greeting.


Instead of the well established "Top of the mornin' to ya", I think I'll now start saying "Smell the solder in the mornin', do ya?". 


Meanwhile, I'm off to the site to check this all out.

Nigel - thanks for the tip. Even though I had no plans for further purchases ( at least for a while) the strings won me over.

I wonder whether these samples will work with the free Kontakt 5 Player?

Unfortunately not - they will work as a demo but cut out after a few minutes. You need the full version of Kontakt
Nigel

That's a shame for me then, I guess ― I'd love to get my hands on these samples, but getting the full version of Kontakt is not a realistic option for a hobbyist like myself at the moment. Thanks for the info anyway.

newbie, think about saving up for Kontakt. Yeh, it's a hefty outlay up front but it will save you money in the long run if you like virtual instruments. 

The reason is that anyone who creates a library that runs in the free player has to pay substantial royalties to Native Instruments for the privilege, a cost that is passed on to the consumer. But anybody can create a library for full Kontakt without paying NI, so instruments that require full Kontakt are considerably less-expensive. Lots of excellent libraries out there priced between $5 and $50, or even free.

Newbie- listen to the BitFlipper.  It'll give you great joy to take advantage of the stuff that perks your interest in the Kontakt universe.  The stuff keeps coming out at crazy affordable prices and will give you great satisfaction for the ones you decide to pick up.  It's very freeing, based on the low impact on your home budget, to add these gems as you wish.