Soniccouture – Ondes v3.5

Invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot, the Ondes Martenot was refined and later models remained in production until 1988.

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Overview of Soniccouture – Ondes

The Ondes Martenot was used in many film scores first dating from 1931; Odna by Shostakovich, Lawrence of Arabia (1962), A Passage to India (1984), and recent films such as Amélie (2001) and There Will Be Blood (2007) by Jonny Greenwood.

Soniccouture’s Ondes brings the original into the 21st century with phase-locked single note sampling of each oscillator, the 3 unique speaker cabinets, as well as a polyphonic version and MPE support.

Multiple MIDI performance options mean that you can bring lifelike expression to the Ondes whatever your hardware set-up.

Features

A large part of the Ondes' sonic character are the 3 loudspeakers that amplify the instrument.
D1: A conventional, if slightly lo-fi, speaker cabinet.
D2: A speaker with 3 metal springs inside, which create a spring reverb type effect.
D3: The most exotic of the three; Le Metallique. This is essentially a speaker with a metal cymbal for a cone.
The Soniccouture Ondes instrument features convolution modelling of these cabinets, which can be blended creatively within the instrument.
Included with the Soniccouture Ondes instrument is an additional synth, the Poly-Ondes.
Because after all, isn't it a shame not to be able to play these sounds polyphonically?
Featuring a tweaked feature set, this makes the most of the amazing vintage oscillators, and adds an LFO for extra modulation possibilities.
The result is a hugely versatile and characterful analogue polysynth.

Soniccouture – Ondes v3.5 for KONTAKT