Cherry Audio is pleased to present the sensational Novachord + Solovox collection, which includes two carefully crafted virtual instruments that pay homage to the pioneers of the synthesizer world.
The Novachord reproduces the revolutionary polyphonic marvel of the same name from 1939, while the Solovox is an equally influential monophonic keyboard instrument.
Cherry Audio strives to revive the vintage charm and unique nuances of these timeless masterpieces that laid the foundation for modern synthesis techniques.
Introduced at the 1939 World’s Fair, the Hammond Novachord contained 163 vacuum tubes and over 1,000 capacitors. Its architecture predicted the ADSR envelope and used a resonant band pass filter similar to those decades later used in modern polyphonic synthesizers. Novachord is remembered for being featured on Vera Lynn’s We’ll Meet Again, played on decades of soundtracks including Gone with the Wind and The Maltese Falcon, and had otherworldly sounds in the movies Cat People, It Came from Outer Space “, “The Twilight Zone” and “The Outer Limits”. Today there are less than 200 Novachords, and according to some sources, only five such devices have survived in the world.