"SIEL OPERA 6 analog synthesizer, modded (keyboard removed), works beautifully over MIDI, all original factory presets loaded, amazing fat sounds, two oscillator per voice power."
http://heavensonearth.com "We’re a small group of developers and musicians providing and creating new instruments for electronic music and modern performers. Currently all our instruments are in the software modular design system called Reaktor 5. Our instruments are some of the largest and most sophisticated available, some including >20,000 modules. We've been providing free and commercial ensembles for the Reaktor music synthesis platform since 2001. Musicians who have found our designs helpful span from bands such as Shpongle and Younger Brother, studios such as Sony Classic Movies, and prime-time national U.S. network TV series including Kings and 30 Rock."
Pictured: Husserl Sapphire edition "Built as a Reaktor 5.0 ensemble, Sapphire provides the most powerful step sequencing abilities available in a unified instrument. It provides all the sophistication of a modular tool, but you don't need to build your own custom modular setups; the modularity is already built into it. With just a few clicks, all its sequencers can trigger and modulate each other. MIDI can also change and trigger all the sequencers in many different ways. There are 16 step, bar and rhythm sequencers; multiple trigger and gate modes; four modulation matrixes; note filters and transformers; chord generators with each pattern sequencer; dozens of custom and preset pitchmaps; step record; controller output; multimode clock jitter for adding timing realism; and a snapshot sequencer for chaining presets. All the sequencer channels are fully polyphonic, and playing notes can sustain to their original duration across preset changes. Any of the 16 sequencers can output to any combination of 16 MIDI channels and 4 other instruments inside the Reaktor ensemble.
Husserl Sapphire edition is currently $79.99. There will be a price increase on December 29. Heavens*onEarth also offers a range of ensembles for free to registered members, and other premiere ensembles providing melodic composition, audio synthesis, and effects not available anywhere else."
Note you can find some free ensembles at Heavens on Earth as well.
YouTube via NeoKitschMusic "This is a brief showreel of the activity going on at the NeoKitsch studio. It includes a few words from Danny Hahn, the director and composer for NeoKitsch, and there are clips of commercial, TV, animation, film and art visuals accompanied by original sound design, voice-over work, composition and foley work by NeoKitsch. The interview with Danny shows a brief example of the instruments used in the studio. Some of them include: Folktek synths - "Micro Garden", "Folkchord" etc, Roland MC-808, Haken Continuum Fingerboard, Omnichord OM 300, Korg MS-2000B, Moog Etherwave Theremin etc."
NeoKitsch - Haken Continuum and Violin
"Another improvisation by Danny Hahn and David Way at the NeoKitsch studio."
NeoKitsch - Edward Lear Nonsense with Haken Continuum, Monomachine and Viola Improvisation
"This is the first attempt at playing with the Haken Continuum Fingerboard in the NeoKitsch studio. David Way is playing the Viola and Danny Hahn is on the Continuum. Both Danny and David share an exciting conversation between violin, viola and unusual instruments, and they produce a large amount of music together for film, TV and for classical, Jazz and experimental music enthusiasts. Please visit the NeoKitsch website/blog for more interesting music, film, reviews, instruments and events at: www.neokitsch.com"