Soniccouture – Ondes v3.5

Invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot, the Ondes Martenot was refined and later models remained in production until 1988. The Ondes Martenot was used in manu film scores first dating from 1931; One by Shostakovich, Law of Arabia (1962), A Passage to India (1984), and recent films such as Amélie (2001) and There Will Be Blood (2007) by Jonny Greenwood.

Sonicocuture’s Ondes brings the original into the 21st century with phased single note sampling of the easy oscillator, the 3 unique speaker cabinets, as well as polyphonic version and MPE surprort. Multiply MIDI performance ortions 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.