At first I thought the first image was an amazing new Kontakt interface you created with patching and everything! Oh well, still looks good mate. :)

A Synthesizers.com modular is one of my "if I won the lottery" wish list items. I have enjoyed playing around with their Synthinvent application building 5 figure dream machines. 
  
So I will be getting this  but if that lottery win comes in I will still be after the real thing. 

Glyn - the Dotcom synths are things of much wondrousness and sound absolutely fabulous. I see no reason why anyone would lust after some £8,000 ARP2600 or £20,000 wheezing old Moog modular or even a few £grand for an old MiniMoog these days when these things exist and £1,600 will get you a system that'll match a 2600 or Moog System 15 without breaking a sweat and sounds equally as beefy (if not more so) as those old things without the repair, renovation and maintenance costs.


Assuming you can make a case to house it, you could build this for £600...






It would be pretty pokey though you'd need a MIDI-CV device. And the beauty is you could gradually expand it as budget allowed.


That said, as you're (I think) in the UK, the customs, shipping costs and other nonsense could/would add to that. Sadly!


But worth it.


And no ... I don't work for Dotcom, just really impressed. Best synth I've ever owned (and I've owned a LOT ... MiniMoog, Prodigy, Wasp, ARP2600, Odyssey, Axxe, Jupiter 6, MKS80 and more)!!


In the meantime, my Toolkit could ease the pain. 


The Modular Toolkit could become a series, BTW.


And thanks for the kind comments.


Cheers,






Stephen

Not been here for a while (so many forums, so little time!) ... sorry  - been very busy with one thing and another.

The latest release is Tubelitzer, a valve Wurlitzer 120 electric piano from the late 50s/early 60s. 





It doesn't have the 'bark' of the later EP200a and is mellower ... somewhere between a Rhodes and the later transistor Wurlis.

But lots of other new stuff at HS as well..

DRUMBOX



And the MUSIC LABORATORY MACHINES SUITE...



Lots of new stuff with ground breaking and fun GUIs to play with.

All for Kontakt 4 (or later). They will work with the free Kontakt Player but only in 'demo' mode and the session will be time limited. The full version of Kontakt 4.2.4 (or higher) is recommended)


Cheers,


Stephen

I'm pleased to announce that a new Music Laboratory Machine is now available - 130p.

Our intrepid explorers have once again uncovered some old piece of junk which we have re-fashioned for our own sonic amusement...



With some fiddling and the intoxicating waft of virtual solder, we've created seven oscillators per voice generating asymmetric and rectified true analogue sine and sawtooth waves which are individually mixable and tuneable by way of sliders and thumbwheels respectively. These wave shapes can be detuned with one simple control as well as spread in stereo and balanced before passing to two resonators lifted from our own Novalite ... and we've added a simple LFO to modulate them for retro phase shifting sweeps. There's also FM, AM and bit crunching/sample rate reduction on the oscillators for some lo-fi grunge if you wish.

We've also included our 'Serendipity' button for generating patches at random which you can use as the starting point for your own sounds and 130p also allows you to control 'articulation' - that is, use real-time controllers to shape or phrase amplitude much like a Theremin or Ondes Martenot.

There's also a comprehensive effects chain comprising distortion, speaker emulation, chorus, flanging, rotary cabinet, echo and convolution reverb featuring a wide range of custom made impulses from spring and plate reverbs to rooms, halls and luscious ambiences...

 

AUDIO 1

AUDIO 2

130p is available now for £8.

DETAILS

For Kontakt 4 (or later). This will work with the free Kontakt Player but only in 'demo' mode and the session will be time limited. The full version of Kontakt 4.2.4 (or higher) is recommended)

Cheers,


Stephen

I plan on getting this one.  Drone on, Stephen.

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Hmmmm... seems it's been quite a while since I dropped in here.

A few new things from Hollow Sun Towers...

CATHOTRON




ADVANCED NOISE GENERATOR






BASS6










VITAL ORGANS






Cheers,




Stephen

Anyone tired the Cathotron?  It looks really cool and the demos sound wonderfully "old".  BTW, how many presets come with this?

I just purchased this - it does sound VERY organic and so worth the few dollars I paid for it!
There are 13 instruments I think - all good starting places for further experimentation!
As with all Hollow Sun stuff these days, excellent value for money and always INTERESTING!
And I  got the latest SFX release which if I remember correctly was all of 2 pounds - also very good.
Cheers
Nigel

Bajan Blue

I just purchased this - it does sound VERY organic and so worth the few dollars I paid for it!
There are 13 instruments I think - all good starting places for further experimentation!
As with all Hollow Sun stuff these days, excellent value for money and always INTERESTING!
And I  got the latest SFX release which if I remember correctly was all of 2 pounds - also very good.
Cheers
Nigel

I just purchased and downloaded the Cathotron.  This is so very nice, so cool, so vintage--and easy to tweak it be as well.  Hollow Sun is big bang for the buck or the pound.  Definitely agree with you Bajan Blue, it is so organic and yes again it is so easy to tweak and get a totally different vibe.  This is my new favorite.  I might just get their SFX as well.  Thanks Hollow Sun for wonderful sounds.

Once again, we have requisitioned an ageing relic which we have re-fashioned for our purposes.

This time, from a 1950s of the future where science fiction and science fact were somewhat blurred ... a portable communications device intended for an over-ambitious and abandoned manned mission to Mars... 



With two oscillators offering a wide variety of true analogue, ring modulated waveforms which can be tuned and mixed, modulated further by a multi-wave LFO and envelope as well as FM and AM modulated, there's a broad palette of sounds to play with and mix and match before these pass to an ADSR envelope and an array of speaker simulations and lo/hi cut filters to create a wider range of antiquated, retro sci-fi sounds that could have originated in an old black and white B-movie or the early experimental electronic music studios of Europe.

These then pass to a comprehensive chain of effects comprising distortion, chorus, phase shifting, echo and a convolution reverb featuring a wide range of impulses.

Furthermore, touch the 'scope/sonar/radar in the centre of the panel and Altaerion will come up with a randomly generated sound for you. Not just that but touch it in the effects page and it will generate a new effects configuration at random. Between them, Altaerion will create good starting points for you to tweak and take you in creative directions you might not have thought of. All good fun!

Altaerion is available now for £10

DETAILS

Altaerion audio demo

Cheers,


Stephen