Sunday, April 11, 2021

Hohner String Melody II

Last week, I was poking around in Nord's sample library again, and in the Analog Strings section, I found two samples of the Hohner String Melody II (labelled "Hohn StrMelody2" and simply "Hohner").  According to the entry for this instrument on Vintage Synth Explorer, it's actually Italian and was made by Logan Electronics.  It seems that Hohner just took care of distribution outside of Italy.

Of the two samples available, "Hohn StrMelody2" is more mellow, and "Hohner" is brighter.

I don't know much about analogue string synthesizers (I can't even name any songs that use one), but I've enjoyed playing around with these samples.  I'm not sure if I'll use them for this project (the focus of which seems to be expanding from just the Pianet to all Hohner keyboards), but I thought I would note the existence of these Nord samples.