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Opening track from my first full-length album Daisy Wardens. I'm super proud of this album as a whole. This track is a good example of my attempts to explore some optimistic feelings. Which have been much needed for myself over the last year+.  Leaning into any goofy ideas that comes to me.

I hope they brings some smiles to ya'll. 

curios.bandcamp.com/releases

Daisy Wardens

Kotok

Slo bongo

Made with several overdubs from a 1964 Servomex LF141 laboratory signal generator with the aux. oscillator sync'ing the main oscillator causing it to lock on to various harmonics.

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2022.

1964 Servomex LF141: Six Sync'd Sines..

Having fun testing out an awesome PPG Wave 2.2 Digital-Analog hybrid synth from 1982.  The Wave was one of the first commercially available wavetable synths offering wavetable sequencing and lead the way to the Waldorf Wave series and the Korg Wavestation.  Unlike the later derivatives, the early models definitely had a sound of their own thanks to their 8-bit DACs and SSM2044 filters.  The whole thing has a raw yet warm sound about it and can cover a surprising amount of sonic territory.  I have long since loved the unique sound of 8-bit digital audio into analog filters!

NB: This 100% all came out of a PPG Wave 2.2.. but not necessarily in the right order :-]

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2022.

1982 PPG Wave 2.2: Evolutionary Digital..

Having some fun testing the Breadboard 01 Custom Modular...

Breadboard 01 (the modular I built for Will Gregory a few years back literally on a set of wooden breadboards) was back in the workshop this week and now easel mounted which I have to say has make it much more enticing to experiment with now its more ergonomic to use.
 
Once you start thinking outside of the box its quite surprising what this thing can muster up.
 
I made this using the filter in max resonance acting as a sine oscillator and then using the LFO and VCO skew output to act as a complex LFO generator driving both the filter cutoff (pitch) and coincidentally chopping it with the VCA and then pitching/layering and panning 4 overdubs.

Sound Design & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2023.

Breadboard 01: Breadwood Forrest..

Having fun testing out a clone of a 1982 MB Vectrex games console newly built at Hideaway Studio aka Scopetrex by TubeTimeUS. As the name suggests, the new clone is  designed to drive an analog oscilloscope in X-Y mode instead of the original vector monitor.

The Vectrex was conceived by John Ross of Smith Engineering and ran on a 6809 processor at 1.5MHz.  What set it aside from the rest was that it was the only console ever to be released that natively ran in vector graphics and featured analog linear integration thus producing super smooth step-free vectors which was pretty impressive for an 8-bit platform released in 1982.

I have modified the unit to allow external noise-free mixing of the three output channels directly from the AY-3-8910 chip allowing for panning, EQ and even FX.

Here is a recording I made of the superb adaptation of Rob Hubbard's original C64 SID tune from Thrust (first released in 1986 on the BBC Micro) running on the Vectrex port of the game by Ville Krumlinde released in 2004.

Thrust made sense to be ported to the Vectrex as the original graphics showed outlines of objects imitating a vector graphic look. 

Original C64 Composition by Rob Hubbard.
Scopetrex 3-Channel Direct Recording by D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2023.

1982 MB Vectrex: Thrust Theme (Direct from AY-3-8910 Chip)

untitled (recorded live 21/09/2019)

303 Ways

https://soundcloud.com/fxbip/insect-funk

Originally from Rapture, Fxbip's "Insect Funk" is one of my all time fav bip experiences. (along with rapture being my fav bip release)
Huge thanks to Fxbip for writing the original and letting me ruin it ;)

X4 Massif

peep the original 👀

Fxbip - Insect Funk (Mause's Quik Remix)126

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 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

Breadboard 01: Breadwood Forrest..

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