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Summary of Contents for Hollow Sun Vox Continental
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- Page 2 60s and 70s and which is still popular today . ABOUT THE CONTINENTAL The Vox Continental is probably the most famous of the 'new breed' of transistor organs that emerged in the early '60s. Previously, organs were built around tone-wheel technology. This undoubtedly created a fantastic (classic) organ sound but made the instruments heavy and unwieldy (and expensive).
- Page 3 The Vox Continental was the first of these (1962) and had drawbars to create sounds. The first three white ones allowed you to adjust the levels of the 16', 8' and 4' registers whilst the two maroon drawbars offered a sine wave and a reedy sawtooth wave.
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Page 4: Master Page
PAGE TABS At the bottom of each synth are three tabs which select different operating areas. Click on the tabs as required. MASTER PAGE Here, you can set parameters releated to velocity, keyboard range and tuning. VELOCITY VELOCITY CURVE Select from a variety of different velocity curves here. By default, velocity is set to FIXED to emulate the real thing. -
Page 5: Control Panel Page
CONTROL PANEL PAGE This is the meat and potatoes of all the Conti’s operation, where you can set the virtual drawbars much like on the real thing. There are two sets of drawbars. One sets the levels for the sine wave drawbars and the other sets the levels for the ‘sawtooth’... -
Page 6: Effects Page
Select a cabinet type here. Eleven types are available that emulate several classic cabinets, many pertinent to the time. The Vox Continental can really come to life with these as it doesn’t sound so ‘clean’ and more like some of the classic Conti tones we hear on records of old. - Page 7 DAMAGE AMOUNT This is a curious control! If a Vox Conti got a bit beaten up being thrown in and out of vans, etc., when gigging or through electrical failure, whatever, the top octave of the divide down oscillator could ‘bleed’ into the signal with every semitone ‘singing’ in the background.
- Page 8 If you have several computers or samplers, you are free to copy your purchase to use on those. However... HOLLOW SUN SOUNDS CANNOT BE USED IN ANY COMMERCIAL PRODUCT (HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE) AND/OR SOUND LIBRARY.
- Page 9 When the Player times out, you can restart it immediately and continue • (although you will, of course, have to reload everything). To enjoy Hollow Sun’s Vox Continental to its full, it is recommended you buy a full version of Kontakt. It is compatible with Kontakt 3.5 and higher. 30/7/10...