Optigan Archives Samples from the Optigan Master Tapes

The Optigan® Archives Vol. 1 is an exclusive set of loops and keyboard samples culled from the original Optigan/Orchestron studio master reels. This is the ONLY authorized product featuring material from the Optigan® Master Tapes. These samples are provided in .wav format, along with associated Native Instruments Kontakt programs.

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.

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.