TL;DR Summary: I’m thinking about a new product based on the Orchestron, and I’m looking for input. January 2023 will be the four-year anniversary of the commercial release of the Panoptigon di
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Synthplex Pics & Blog Post Documenting Choptigan
Robert & Pea had a great time at Synthplex this past weekend, meeting all sorts of Optigoners, new and old! Shawn Jimmerson pointed us to a blog post about his Choptigan project from 2012 that we
First Milestone: Promising results from disc plotting/processing test with proposed equipment
Some time ago, I worked with a German photo plotter company plot a test disc. They did not have trouble plotting it, but they used a different type of film than we need. They developed the film with w
The Fate of New Program Discs for Optigan®, Orchestron, and Panoptigon
This is Robert Becker, the guy that has been making program discs with Pea Hicks since 2008. It appears that our ability to make new discs is ending unless I can get some help. Background: My role in
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Panoptigon plays SILENT NIGHT
https://youtu.be/WFcdZHvVDYY SILENT NIGHT recorded on Quilter Labs’ PANOPTIGON, featuring the new Panoptigon format disc GRAND PIANO (available soon!) as well as the Optigan® format DARKSOPHONE and Or
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New Panoptigon Format Disc – PIPE ORGAN II
https://youtu.be/1dNWGRpzMkA Announcing a new disc for PANOPTIGON from Quilter Labs! This is the second disc in the new Panoptigon format, only playable on Panoptigon. This time we’ve dug back
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Optigan® / Orchestron Disc Back-Catalog Now Available!
In advance of the official launch of the Panoptigon hardware, Quilter Labs has opened their new disc webstore. Optigan.com will also be offering the same titles soon at our newly revamped website, but
Panoptigon OSCILLATIONS Disc Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hlkzbeRJfg Here’s a demo of the very first disc in the new PANOPTIGON disc format! Oscillations will be included in the basic “starter set” of discs that comes with ea
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Optigan® Article in Electronic Sound Magazine
Happy to have lent a hand with this article about the Optigan® by Mat Smith in the latest issue of Electronic Sound Magazine!
Laurie Anderson – Optigan® / Panoptigon 2010 One-Off Disc Demo
https://youtu.be/Su5Xw_Ul10I This is a historical oddity that was never intended for public consumption, but in honor of Laurie Anderson’s Grammy Award for LANDFALL (which prominently features Robert