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Mar 17, 2020 · iOptigan for iPhone, iPad at the App Store. Bonus freebie – the great piano samples you hear in the disc demo are open source. Photo credit / CC-BY-SA 3.0 (nice Wikipedia article, actually!): Main and chord keyboards of a model 35002 Optigan Music Maker optical organ, ca. 1971. Owned and photographed by user PMDrive1061.
Nov 1, 2017 · Pea Hicks & Stefan Stenzel have introduced iOptigan, an iOS software recreation of the rare Optigan sample playback keyboard. iOptigan is a virtual Optigan on your iPad or iPhone, complete with all 40 original sound discs (25 included with app purchase, an additional 15 via in-app purchase) and all the lo-fi character and quirks of the original.
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The Optigan® (OPTIcal orGAN) was a sort of adult toy originally made by Mattel in the early 70’s. Basically it was laid out like most home chord organs of the time, but its sound producing mechanism was very unique. Instead of producing electronically simulated organs, drums, etc, it spun clear LP-sized discs, optically encoded with looped ...
Jun 17, 2009 · Well, today even the temporally challenged can jump on the retro bandwagon with the Virtual Optigan® – an online version of the optical organ that took its sounds from flexi-discs encoded with waveforms of actual instruments. This cheesy proto-sampler, coveted by collectors and rock stars alike, was made buy Mattel in the early ’70s.
Nov 22, 2017 · Stefan Stenzel, co-founder/CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of German high-quality hardware and software synthesizer brand Waldorf Music, and Pea Hicks, self-styled custodian of all things OPTIGAN for the last 20-plus years, are proud to announce availability of iOptigan — an iOS app ‘adaptation’ of the OPTIGAN, an early-Seventies-vintage chord organ fondly remembered by a faithful few for ...
Oct 31, 2017 · The Optigan for iOS, made by Pea Hicks and Stefan Stenzel. This is the Optigan for iOS. The Optigan, short for Optical Organ, was a chord organ from the early 1970’s. It is remembered today for its unique system of sound reproduction using optical discs. These LP-sized film discs were optically encoded with 57 concentric tracks, which ...
Dec 12, 2017 · Now you can enjoy those halcyon days of yore on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch, as the Optigan is now available as an iOS app, imaginatively called iOptigan. iOptigan Features. Dead-On Simulation of the Classic Optigan Chord Organ; 25 of the 40 Original Optigan Discs Included; The Other 15 available with an In-App Purchase; Virtual Reverb
