Manufacturer : Hollow Sun
Format : NCW, NKI, NKR
Quality : 24 bit Frequency 44.1 kHz Channels mono
System requirements : Native Instruments – Kontakt 4.2.3 +
Description : COGNOSPHERE
Cognosphere continues Hollow Sun’s ongoing ingenuity in re-purposing old equipment for abstract musical purposes. Here we have more old naval gear that’s been carefully modified for a specific purpose…
Six oscillators/synths constructed from sampled irreglar sine, triangle, square and sawtooth waves from 40s and 50s valve/tube oscillators which can be mixed, modulated and mangled with a multimode filter, envelopes and a multi-wave LFO. There’s also a vintage noise generator in there as a seventh oscillator.
However, the thing’s alive – click on the central cog and that rusty old thing will trundle into action, do a complete revolution and generate a new sound at random for you that harks back to early pioneering electronica enhanced by a comprehensive multi-FX chain. ..
Whatever genre of music you work in, there’s a place for Cognosphere for adding texture and substance. Although Cognosphere will do pads, basses, sub-basses and leads, etc., it is most at home in obscure abstract textures with randomly generated sounds you’d never come up with yourself and the valve oscillators lend an air of genuine retro authenticity.
Advanced Retro Synthesis Engine
— Six oscillators and noise generator.
— Samples from vintage 40s and 50s valve test oscillators
— Irregular sine, triangle, square and sawtooth waveforms
— ‘Serendipity’ function for random patch creation
— Multimode 2-pole/4-pole filter
— Two envelopes
— Advanced multiwave LFO modulation
— Distortion, chorus, phaser, flanger and echo multi-FX
— Convolved reverb featuring a wide range of impulses NF
