For a while now I've been curious about the infamous AKAI S900 into VX90 combo and after building a 13 pin connection cable and installing an HxC virtual floppy drive in the S900 I decided to give it a go.
The results were very promising so I decided to put a new sample library together offering complex warm analog oscillator sources transposed over 5 octaves with a touch of 12-bit crunch shaped with classic Curtis VCFs and VCAs!
Raw complex oscillator sources were sampled in 12-bits on a recently refurbished AKAI S900. Sources were mainly 1976 Minimoog model D but also included ARP Omni-2, Philicorda GM751, 1939 Novachord, Juno-106 and three tube oscillators fed into a tube waveshaper.
32 complex oscillators were captured on the S900 and stored as virtual disk images on SD card.
Patches were programmed into the VX90 to modulate the Curtis filters and VCAs and the results multi-sampled as a library of 376 generously long 24-bit samples.
32 instruments were programmed up in Kontakt to form the basis for a 4-voice layering engine complete with scripted user interface.
32 example editable patches were created.
Here is a link to more background, sound demos and download page for what I think you will all find is a very tempting Christmas offer of £10:
http://hideawaystudio.wordpress.com/
All the best,
Dan Wilson, Hideaway Studio."
You can find the set including pics of the gear used on Hideaway Studio here.
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