Interruptor NIGHT FLIGHT, Руководство пользователя

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1 Introduction
“Night Flight” is a VSTi plug-in for the Windows platform emulating
a class of keyboards popular in the mid-seventies to early eighties
which were known as string machines or string ensembles.
1.1 What is an analogue string ensemble?
Many moons before the widespread arrival of polyphonic
synthesizers in 1981 nifty engineers at Eminent Orgelbouw B.V. in
the Netherlands discovered that their
Orbitone system, an electronic circuitry
built to affordably mimic the sound of a
Leslie cabinet for home organists, could
be easily modified to create a stunning
new sound yet unheard from an organ.
They introduced it as a feature to their
1972 model “Eminent 310 unique” under
the name “string ensemble”. Honestly
speaking it's sound hardly resembles
anything like a real string ensemble,
which however does not take away
anything from the qualities these unique synthetic timbres have in
their own right. The sound had great appeal with musicians,
particularly after Eminent included a modification of the concept
into a portable keyboard named the
Solina string ensemble which was later
re-branded as Arp String Ensemble for
the US market. At the same time other
companies like Crumar, Logan, Roland,
Oberheim and Korg also released
string machines following the same
architecture combining organ-style
divide-down oscillators with an ensem-
ble effect.
String machines have been widely used in Pop, Rock, Funk, Reggae,
Soul, and Disco music throughout the seventies and up to the early
eighties when they were popular with New Wave acts.
4 NIGHT FLIGHT VSTi - User Manual
Image 1: Eminent 310 unique
Image 2: Arp/Solina String Ensemble