Testing a Korg PS-3100 old polyphonic synth I have serviced for a customer. Lovely instrument.
Added some reverb and delay

Korg PS - 3100 test

Cracklebox - Things that go SKKKRRR-KSSSssH

"Green Bus" is taken from the upcoming album "Sun On The Square" from the innocence mission. Pre-order here: http://smarturl.it/INNOCENCE_SUNSQUARE

the innocence mission - Green Bus

The beast is 80 years old this year!.. 

A new montage of short improvised test recordings recorded live in 2012 from 1938 Hammond Novachord No,346 which was partially restored in 2009 to working order by vintage synth specialist D.A.Wilson in the UK. It is very rare to hear a direct modern recording (non-acoustic through delay/reverb directly from the generator chassis)of one of these instruments in action as less than 50 remain in known working order.

The Novachord is generally accepted to be world's first commercial all electronic polyphonic instrument featuring dynamics control and specifically designed to emulate timbres beyond those of an organ such as strings, harpsichord and piano.

See more on this extremely rare beast at www.novachord.co.uk

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio.

1938 Novachord #346: Montage 2012

From the event Take It Easy Policy TIEP´s celebration at Kafé Hærverk, Oslo.  TIEP is a small label here in Oslo.
Me using for the first time live my newly built Buchla 208.
Vid on my youtube channel

Olsen´s Hærverk. Live at Kafé Hærverk, Oslo 15.09.2018

Made by feeding a single sustained chord played from a Studio Electronics Omega 8 into a classic Brüel & Kjaer type 2113 L/C band-pass resonator bank, sampled through 21 different filter settings, and then randomly sequenced live into a 1969 Dolby A301 for some multi-band compressed magic!...

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

Brüel & Kjaer type 2113: Random Resonations...

110 The NEW Goldstandard

Movement 2 from Mexico Suite by Nigel Sixsmith released in 1985 as a demonstration of the Hybrid Music 5000 Synthesizer for the BBC Micro home computer which was initially released as the Music 500 in 1984...

The recording was captured via reverb from the stereo output of an original Music 5000 system.  Note that the delays and panning effects are programmed into the original sequence.

Now relatively hard to find, Hybrid Technology's Music 5000 synthesiser was designed by Chris Jordan and initially marketed by Acorn Computers in 1984 as the Music 500 and connected to the 1MHz bus. The instrument was programmed in its own language called AMPLE which was quite powerful for its time for a home computer based music production system.

Implemented entirely in discrete logic, the Music 5000 was a surprisingly powerful multi-timbral digital wavetable synthesizer module considering its low cost.

Up to 16 voices could be played simultaneously from a pool of 14 different 128-byte wavetables. Pairs of oscillators could be phase or ring modulated or sync'd. Each voice had its own volume, envelope and stereo pan control which could be automated.

8 bit u-law companded audio (comparable to 12-bit linear digital audio) was produced at a 47kHz sampling rate using a form of Direct Digital Synthesis using the 'phase-accumulator' technique with 24-bit frequency/phase control accuracy.

Composed and Arranged by Nigel Sixsmith.

Music 5000 (Acorn BBC Micro): Mexico Suite Pt.2 (Nigel Sixsmith, 1985)

Having another bash at improving the exponential pitch control calibration in the new Hz-V control firmware for the new Dual MIDI2CV interface.  The prototype has been retrofitted in a 1977 Korg Micro-preset M-500.

Here is the Micro-preset playing oboe and the Matrix 1000 playing Harpsichord.... (last movement of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.5)

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2019

1977 KORG Micropreset M-500 & Matrix 1000: Lets Play Bach..

A quick test recording of my 1979 Korg Sigma playing Bach via MIDI on a ring modulated brass patch from a newly installed prototype Hideaway Dual MIDI2CV interface now with tweaks to the firmware to improve the Legato note handling...

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2019.

1979 KORG Sigma: Brassed On MIDI (Bach) Improved Legato Handling

Some samples in action loaded up by the very first prototype XD-280 QD Floppy Drive Emulator Interface by Hideaway Studio from the brand new sound library for AKAI S612 to be pre-loaded in the form of over 150 new disk images on the drive system...

The XD-280 is in production and has been proving very popular..

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

Cracklebox - Things that go SKKKRRR-KSSSssH

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