[sdiy] DIY Optigan / Orchestron player

[Naoki Iwakami]

Hi Scott, thank you for your comments.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Scott Nordlund <gsn10 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Great work.  Were those things even sold in Japan?

No they are not sold in Japan.
I've bought the discs from the optigan.com.  They accept international shipping.

> The warping of the disc seems to add an interesting sound.  Maybe you
> could apply opaque tape to the disc for rhythmic effects. With your
> arrangement it's much easier to see how the sound is affected.

Wow it sounds interesting.
A good point of mechanical instrument is that you can affect the sound
physically.

> Key click is a little intrusive.  Of course it's a little too much to
> suggest 58 VCAs, but maybe some cheap and simple transistor-based VCA
> (like in some organs, to make it very primitive is kind of fitting)...

Yes I agree the click noise is somewhat annoying.  Having VCA is a
good solution.
By using micro processor, key assigning into 6 to 8 voices may reduce
the pain to
have a lot of synth modules.

Cheers,
-- Naoki

>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:30:21 +0900
>> From: naoki.iwakami at gmail.com
>> To: Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> Subject: [sdiy] DIY Optigan / Orchestron player
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is not synth, but somewhat related. I am sorry if this is not an
>> appropriate post.
>> I have built an Optigan / Orchestron player by modifying an analog
>> record player.
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmP-BKYvPzg
>>
>> I hope I can bring some synth taste in the organ in the next version
>> (will do in some future).
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> -- Naoki
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