Whilst restoring the ex Klaus Schulze GDS (originally used on  his 1980 Album, Dig It) back in 2014 I made several test recordings throughout the project.

Here are some more excerpts from my test recording archives I recorded back in 2014.   The white noise at the beginning of the recording was some of the first audio that emerged from the beast on the first powerup during resurrection when the system crashed during an attempt to boot it!

The GDS was a groundbreaking all digital instrument based on Hal Alles' Alles Machine at Bell Labs and featured 32 high speed digital oscillators implementing a mixture of FM and additive synthesis in 16-bit audio with two 16 stage loopable EGs per oscillator, velocity sensitive keyboard, multi-timbral playback and a built in sequencer!

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2014

1979 General Development System: More 2014 Restoration Test Excerpts..

Just a guy in the City of Angels making music with old analog and digital keyboards, samplers and drum machines. And the occasional laptop, guitar, and other human. 

I've been recording electronic music on-and-off now for some thirty years. When I sit down to make music, I usually end up getting lost in making sound instead :) 

A lot of what I have here is made while testing instruments I've repaired.

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net

In the early eighties, Les Marquis wrote songs for a band called This Perfect Day. They played around the Liverpool area- the home of  the Beatles. The song showcased here - Dreamer - was influenced by the 80s indie scene.

Love music! Love to dream, dreamer :-)