Polivox

Vintage Soviet-Synth für Kontakt

Der Polivoks wurde von Vladimir Kuzmin entworfen, wobei seine Frau Olimpiada, die sich offenbar von den sowjetischen Militärradios jener Zeit inspirieren ließ, einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Ästhetik leistete.

Der Polivoks wurde zwischen 1982 und 1990 in der Formanta Radio Factory in Kachkanar, Russische SFSR, hergestellt. Mit einem Verkaufspreis von 920 Rubel wurden etwa 100.000 Polivoks hergestellt - in der Spitze bis zu 1.000 Stück pro Monat! Trotzdem ist das Polivoks außerhalb Russlands nicht allzu häufig anzutreffen.

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Solo Synth Engine

It may be full of bizarre old Russian transistors the size of small flying saucers, plastic that feels like it was made from recycled Christmas cracker toys and easily winning the most horrific key-action ever made contest.. Hideaway Studio truly adore this wonderful old analog chameleon of an instrument!

As always with all of their Kontakt Libraries the raw sample material has been captured faithfully and directly from the instrument (including in this case a few samples taken via a gorgeous 1968 Bruel & Kjaer type 2107 all- tube swept band pass lab filter). The Solo Synth Engine retains the sonic character of the instrument and yet helps to present it in a new light permitting a wide range of tonal colours, textures and landscapes to be explored. With this in mind they have included many example patches in the library which  will help to show the full potential of the Polivox library.

Overview

• Approximately 685MB of free hard disk space is required

• 845 24-bit Samples

• 64 Example Instruments

• 66 Example Layered-Multis

Please note: The FULL version of Kontakt 4.2.4 is required.