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The Novachord Solovox Black Friday deal takes 51% off Cherry Audio's two-in-one synth plugin bundle, so it costs $19 until Nov 27, 2026. It pairs a polyphonic Novachord with a monophonic Solovox, both from Hammond's 1940s catalogue.
Both are software versions of early electronic instruments that came before the modern synthesizer. Cherry Audio says it built them with virtual synthesis and no sampling.
The bundle comes as one download and installs as both a standard DAW plugin and a standalone app. Cherry Audio calls it a pair of Golden Age classics.
The Novachord side follows Hammond's polyphonic instrument from 1939. The Solovox side follows a related monophonic keyboard that was meant to give organ-style lead lines.
Hammond built the original from 1939 to 1942 and showed it at the World's Fair. Inside the cabinet sat 163 tubes plus upwards of 1,000 purpose-built capacitors. A single bank of master oscillators was divided down to cover all 72 keys at once, and the signal then passed through filtering stages that foreshadowed subtractive synthesis.
The design also anticipated the ADSR envelope, used a resonant band-pass filter and included a vibrato unit. Cherry Audio points out that these ideas resemble approaches Moog and ARP polyphonic synths adopted decades later.
The original weighed 500 pounds and sold poorly. Hammond built only around 1,000 units before production stopped in 1942.
Hammond made the Solovox between 1940 and 1950. It borrowed the Novachord's oscillator and divider circuits and used 18 vacuum tubes.
The hardware was a small three-octave keyboard that mounted beneath a piano keyboard, plus a tone cabinet holding the sound generator, amplifier and speaker.
It produced string, woodwind and organ sounds, and it turned up widely in light music from the 1940s into the 1960s.
Developer and DSP designer Mark Barton (MRB) approached Cherry Audio about reviving both instruments. Joseph and Justin Fill, who own a restored Novachord, helped with the project.
The Novachord interface copies the original with white Plakson and black Bakelite keys, teardrop rotary levers and cherry wood. On the Solovox, the vacuum tubes light up and respond to your settings.
On Mac, the bundle comes in AU, VST, VST3, AAX and Standalone. macOS 13 Ventura is supported, 64-bit is required and Apple M1 chips, including M1 Ultra, run it natively.
On Windows, it comes in VST, VST3, AAX and Standalone. Windows 7 or above, including Windows 11, is supported, and 64-bit is required.
Cherry Audio recommends a quad-core machine with 8GB of RAM on either platform. On Mac, that means a 3.4 GHz quad-core CPU or an M1.
Yes. The Novachord + Solovox Black Friday deal takes 51% off Cherry Audio's synth plugin bundle, bringing it to $19 until Nov 27, 2026. One purchase covers both instruments.
You get two Cherry Audio instruments in one download: Novachord, a polyphonic synth, and Solovox, a monophonic lead keyboard. Together they carry over 100 presets and flexible MIDI mapping.
On Mac it comes in AU, VST, VST3, AAX and Standalone. On Windows it comes in VST, VST3, AAX and Standalone. Both platforms need a 64-bit system, and Apple M1 chips are supported natively.
No. Cherry Audio says it recreated both instruments with virtual synthesis and no sampling. The Novachord section is based on circuit-modeling work by DSP designer Mark Barton (MRB).
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