New Optigan Disc - RADIOAKTIVOX

It's the news you've been waiting for! We are now ready to release the first in a series of new, high quality Optigan discs. We've listened to your feedback and have produced a disc that contains the sounds most requested, and in the style that scored the highest in our survey. We call the disc Radioaktivox. Is in the style of a familiar German synthesizer band from the seventies. We used the much sought after Optigan/Orchestron choir sound for the keys- a sound made famous by said band. We used the original source material from the master tapes and have totally eliminated the clicks and pops at the loop seams.

We are now accepting advanced orders for Radioaktivox. You can help us reduce the cost of the discs by placing your advanced order by 12/15/2008. The more orders we receive, the lower the cost. The minimum quantity we can make is 25 pieces for a price $100 a disc. We think that price is too high. If we could get about 100 advanced orders, we believe we can knock off another $10 to $15. Whatever the savings ends up being, we will refund that amount to you at the time we fulfill your order.

Please visit http://shoptigan.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=3410977 to place your order!

Also, you can find out more about this project at http://blogtigan.wordpress.com/

Thanks for your support! We are excited about releasing the first Optigan disc in 34 years, and we hope that there will be many more.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• optigan
• optigon
• orchestron
• vox
• humana
• choir
• talentmaker

[CaptainSiberia]

Is there some reason you can't say Kraftwerk?

Fantastic! What a fun little disc that is!

[zurtur]

Kraftwerk USED Oprigan or Orchestron to make that Records !!! :)

[mellotrongirl]

The cover looks a little like the 50 Ft Hose "Cauldron" LP--a great early old "electronic" LP from the 60's. Kinda reminds me of Gary Numan's Tubeway Army meets really early Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

[CaptainSiberia]

light and a sensor. Now that we have computers, they can easily author a waveform image that will loop smoothly. Most likely discs are photographic prints just like movies on film, in which case they are made with an optical printer. You know the drill: you print the image onto the disc with light, develop the disc in a bath of chemicals, and it's done. And of course machines do the hard work. I could be wrong; it could be a process that uses ink. But it's most likely photographic.

[CaptainSiberia]

@Lachlant1984 Well, the discs are celluloid, just like film stock. They spin around completely once every 2 seconds. Imagine that instead of having a full-length movie printed on a long strip of film, you have a spinning disc with several selectable 2-second looped movies printed in rings; that's what this is. But instead of pictures, you have sound, and it's the same optical technology that they used to use for film soundtracks: each ring is a long, thin picture of an audio waveform read with a

[CaptainSiberia]

@CrossCuntryFranco They're the curators of all the original Optigan/Orchestron session tapes, that's how!

[The2010SnowDay]

how do you make the optigan discs?

[CrossCuntryFranco]

I was talking about "they" as in the guys who made the Optigan disks...

[dnvlgm1]

fucking faggot just play the damn thing and shut the fuck up