An Ondioline for when?

[Mayumi]

A French invention, Cocorrico ! The Ondioline is an electronic musical instrument invented by Georges Jenny in the early 1940s and developed through different models until his death in 1975.

In the genealogy of electronic instruments, it follows the theremin and the ondes Martenot, both created during the 1920s. It precedes the clavioline by a few years and is a precursor of the analog synthesizer.

So, I would love to see this in the Cherry Audio Store...
See: https://ondioline.com
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-ysWwO ... nielKitzig

[seal58]

I'm watching elctronic musical instrument development and did not know about the Ondioline yet. Thanks for calling it up here.

It sounds very good and can fight against many synthesizers.

[Steve W]

Cute demo video. I had fun browsing through the Technical Manual. So nice that its available in case anyone wants to build one today (or even try to simulate the behavior of the circuits--but without the need to warm up the tubes). Thanks for sharing this peek at history.

[Mayumi]

No worries. I wish Cherry Audio would make one.

[Jean d'Oran]

And the Loumavox ?
COCORICO ITOU ! ! !

(Re)-discovered during the Confinement

https://synthanatomy.com/2021/12/loumav ... inski.html

https://youtu.be/OZYNyvXvItE

Enjoy

[utdgrant]

And the Loumavox ?

L’alerte spoiler

[Jean d'Oran]

And the Loumavox ?

L’alerte spoiler

Yes, of course !
I knew it ; but it was so well made and, at least in France, with the involvement of Jean-Michel Jarre who had agreed to be an accomplice, the hoax worked very well !

And all this made by teenagers...

[Mayumi]

A free VST :
https://labs.spitfireaudio.com/electronic-antique

Cherry Audio can do better.

[UrbanCyborg]

Coming from Spitfire, it's guaranteed to be samples of the real thing, so it's hard to see how CA could do it better.

Reid

[utdgrant]

Coming from Spitfire, it's guaranteed to be samples of the real thing, so it's hard to see how CA could do it better.

Reid

Well, CA recreated the Novachord and Solovox as virtual synthesizer circuits. For my money, that always trumps sample replay (YMMV, of course). I'm pretty sure that also informed their decision to make CR-78 virtual-circuit based rather than sample-based.

I own the G-Force Virtual String Machine, which has samples of dozens of classic machines, and individual voicings within them. However, the quality varies considerably from machine to machine, with some being almost unusable due to distortion, mains hum, etc. OTOH, some presets are utterly glorious, and a joy to play.