Secrets Of The Optigan

Optigan.com’s Pea Hix demonstrates how the memorable music from this recent Chrysler Town & Country, above, was created using sound from an Optigan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrGUJzA3a8 The Optigan was a home keyboard that was a proto-sampler. It used a photomechanical playback mechanism to read soundwaves from film disks.

Totally Wired Extras, Including Interview With Schneiders Büro’s Andreas Schneider

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C2919CB37E1E6890 This is collection of interviews was released as extras for Totally Wired – a documentary on Berlin’s top spot for high-end analog electronic equipment and music machines, Schneiders Büro. Totally Wired gives those who make these machines, those who buy them, those who experiment with sound, and even the head sales clerk at Schneiders… Read More Totally Wired Extras, Including Interview With Schneiders Büro’s Andreas Schneider

Hammond Novachord, The First Synthesizer, Now Available As A Virtual Instrument

Hollow Sun has introduced Novachord – the first and only soundset from the legendary Hammond Novachord: Using divide-down oscillators (the world’s first?), the Novachord was fully polyphonic. These pass through resonators, hi-and lo-pass filters and a simple but effective envelope shaper. What is particularly impressive is that the Novachord had LFOs and envelope shapers for… Read More Hammond Novachord, The First Synthesizer, Now Available As A Virtual Instrument