Il Vox Continental V è l’ultima fedele riproduzione Arturia di tastiera vintage e riporta su PC e Mac il classico suono del famoso Vox Continental 300. Questo organo classico è stato usato per la registrazione di alcuni dei più famosi brani di band degli anni 60’, 70’, 80’ e oltre. Il Vox Continental V vi darà accesso istantaneo a queste sonorità e molto altro ancora.
Gli sviluppatori francesi hanno iniziato con il classico e raro Vox Continental 300 ‘dual manual organ’ catturando ogni particolare dell’originale, dal timing del key contact ai rumori di fondo. Naturalmente non si sono fermati qui, hanno acquisito anche un rarissimo Jennings J70, che Tom realizzò dopo aver lasciato la Vox, e aggiunto un J70 mode al voice engine. Non si avrà così solo un organo raro ma 2 organi rarissimi.
Tramite tecnologia TAE™ sono stati ricreati perfettamente i manuali superiore e inferiore del Vox che possono essere utilizzati tramite controller MIDI multipli o con un controller per il singolo manuale. La sezione Bass aggiunge quelle giuste frequenze che arricchiscono il suono. Sono integrati anche stomp box vintage per processare il segnale e uscire poi direttamente o tramite un ampli per chitarra classico (diversi modelli disponibili) o un Leslie. Il Vox fu usato su brani come “House of the Rising Sun” degli Animals,“Light my Fire” dei Doors, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” degli Iron Buttterflys, “Don’t do me like that” di Tom Petty e da artisti come Madness, Elvis Costello, The Velvet Underground, e molti altri ancora.
Caratteristiche principali
- Virtual instrument suonabile tramite tastiera MIDI.
- Include centinaia di preset
- Emulazione Vox 300 ‘dual manual’
- Sezioni upper manual, lower manual e bass pedal
- MIDI mapping completo
- Processori effetti con uscite multiple
- Supporto per MIDI split o canali indipendenti per manuale
- Perfetta integrazione con la serie di controller Arturia Keylab MIDI
- VST, VST3, AU, AAX e versioni standalone.
- Organo Jennings J70 Tone switches
- Vibrato, tremolo, riverbero, overdrive e altri effetti
- Uscite per Leslie™ e ampli chitarra
- Sezione percussioni estesa con tempi di decadimento
- Consente accordature individuali per ogni pitch come un Vox reale
- Incremento o decremento del timing del key contact (simula i key contact originali)
- Switch tra l’emulazione dei circuiti del Vox 300 e il motore aggiornato del Jennings J70.
- Modula il rumore di background degli originali Vox/Jennings
INFORMAZIONI UTILI
Produttore: Arturia
Modello: Arturia VOX Continental-V
Website: www.arturia.com
Distributore italiano: www.midiware.com
Costo: Euro 119+ IVA
Alla prossima notizia dal Musikmesse di Francoforte
Antonio Campeglia
The Vox Continental was originally created by the Jennings Musical Instrument (JMI) company in 1962. JMI had been in the organ business since the 50’s, mostly making home and church organs. There were a number of models all based on the Continental that were released with various feature differences. The Continental, Super Continental, Jaguar, Corinthian, Baroque and the 300 were the different models. The 300 was the most advanced with the equivalent of a Continental on the lower keyboard and an expanded Continental on the upper with different drawbars.
In about 1967 Tom Jennings was fired from his own company after a buyout. He then started up the Jennings Electronic Instruments (JEI) company and began making his own organs again. These organs were based on the Continental 300 but further expanded with more drawbars on the upper keyboard, and expanded percussion section, added Tremolo and spring reverb as well as some TONE presets.
The sound of the Vox organs caught on fast and they became a staple of the British invasion sound used by the Animals, The Beatles, The Zombies, and more.
The Vox was used on songs such as The Animals“House of the Rising Sun”, The Doors “ Light my Fire”, Iron Buttterflys “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”, Tom Petty’s “Don’t do me like that” and by artists such as Madness, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and many many more.
Still a classic and still in great demand the prices of Vox organs has recently gone through the roof and has put them out of the price range of most people. Until now that is.
REBIRTH OF COOL
We started by modeling the circuit designs of the classic and rare Vox Continential 300 dual manual organ and captured every nuance of the original down to the key contact timing and background noises. This gives you all the smooth mellow tones and that cutting hard tone that the Vox was known for.
We did not stop there however, we also acquired a rare Jennings J70, which Tom created after he left Vox. We then added a Jennings J70 mode to the voice engine. You don’t just get 1 rare organ but you get 2 ultra rare organs in one software.
As if this was not enough, we then added the Arturia flair and put in an EXPANDED mode that gives you a full compliment of drawbars on both the upper and lower manuals and added a third tone drawbar based on what we think a Vox would sound like with a SAW wave as a base tone. Now you can create sounds that have never been made before with the original organs.
You get our TAE™ modeled circuitry of both the upper and lower manuals of the Vox that can be used via multiple MIDI controllers or with a single manual controller. The Bass section adds that rich low end.
EFFECTS THAT AFFECT
We included a number of effects that you can use to modify your sounds with. You get a collection of vintage stomp boxes that will distort, flange, delay and create all kinds of tones and textures to your sounds.
Feed the output either directly out or via a classic guitar amp or Leslie speaker. The guitar amp has multiple cabinet and mic models so that you can simulate a great number of sounds from a clean sound like the Monkey’s “I’m a Believer” to the aggressive sounds of Iron Butterfly’s “In-a-gadda-da-vida” and beyond.
We also have a convolution reverb that will give realistic reverb sounds based on a number of impulse responses from classic spring reverbs.
Features
- Dual manual Vox 300 emulation
- Jennings J70 voice engine mode
- Classic red/orange Vox skin or UK Vox/Jennings grey skin
- Upper manual, lower manual and bass pedal sections
- Complete MIDI mapping
- Multiple output effects processors
- Supports MIDI splits or independent channels per manual
- Tight integration with Arturia Keylab MIDI Controller keyboards
- VST, VST3, AU, AAX and standalone versions.
- Expanded mode :
- Adds a full compliment of drawbars for each harmonic
- Adds a new waveform drawbar on each section
- Vibrato, tremolo, reverb, overdrive and more effects
- Leslie™ and guitar amp simulator outputs
- Expanded percussion section with short and long decay times
- Services mode :
- Allows for individual tuning of each pitch like a real Vox
- Increase or decrease the key contact timing (simulates older key contacts)
- Switch between the Vox 300 circuit emulation and the updated Jennings J70 engine.
- Increase or decrease the background noise bleed that older Vox/Jennings have.
