Jiggery-Pokery Sound has introduced Champagne Supernova, a Rack Extension for Reason that’s inspired by the classic Novachord.
The Novachord is a proto-polysynth, introduced in 1930’s by Hammond, that offers 72-note polyphony, controllable envelopes, LFOs and high-pass, low-pass & formant filters.
The Champagne SuperNova Rack Extension is inspired by the architecture of the Novachord, but is not a strict emulation, offering cleaner output and more stable sound.
Features:
- Fifteen waveforms
- Novachord audio flow: five parallel filters (low pass, high pass and three resonant bandpass) and full tone, and the extra “Bright-Mellow” serial low pass filter, and tube amp
- Six rate-offset LFOs in consecutive note pairs for a richer vibrato
- 7-mode ADR/AHR envelope, with keyboard split Release adjustment
- Original stepped knobs, plus a continuous pots mode with fine level control and modern ADSR envelope
- Flexible level control of hum and noise to age/de-age the tone as required
- Choice of Direct or miked Cabinet output, with or without FX pedalboard
- Velocity control
- Hidden extras for fine tuning
- Over 100 presets
Video Demo:
Pricing and Availability
Champagne Supernova is available with an intro price of US $39 (normally $49).
Very cool, but I wish that more than one sound had been in the video.
nice idea and sound,
any chance of vst version?
with scala compatibility?
The Hollow Sun Novachord was sampled from an original condition instrument. Warts and all. I love the little fluctuations and small wheezes. It’s what gives it character.
sounds like the soundtrack for a black and white movie.