The Optigan Archives Vol. 1 - Samples from the Optigan Master Tapes

Official Optigan MERCH now available! https://optigan.threadless.com/ This video features a series of very simple demos of sounds from the Optigan Archives Vol. 1 Sample set, compared with their related sounds from the Optigan/Orchestron/Talentmaker sample set.

This is an exclusive set of loops and keyboard samples culled from the original Optigan/Orchestron studio master reels.

While the Optigan itself always sounded very lo-fi due to the limitations of its optical-soundtrack technology, the original master tapes retain their hi-fi sound quality (albeit in mono).

The Optigan master reels are a vast archive of early 1970s era musical building blocks, covering a wide range of popular styles from the period. Ultimately, only a small portion of this material ever made it onto production Optigan discs. For this initial collection of samples, I'm focusing on that small portion and related out-takes. Future volumes in this series will comprise entirely unfamiliar material- out-takes which never saw the light of day on any Optigan disc.

Among many other things, you'll get the master recordings of the Orchestron Vocal Choir sound that Kraftwerk famously used on their albums from the mid to late 1970s.

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