RobertLauriston Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 What is that under the MiniMoog (good shot at 7'40")? I thought it was a second MiniMoog, but the top key appears to be F rather than C. Doesn't have the metal side piece of a Farfisa Professional Piano. https://mixdownmag.com.au/features/gear-rundown-kraftwerks-autobahn/ https://api.moogmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/super_key_2x/public/images/2018-09/kw06_0.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rod76 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Vako Orchestron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokely Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 LOL at the narration in the 2nd vid.... "last year they removed the last recognizable instrument, a violin, and added these electric drums" I can only imagine what people must have thought of these guys in 1975, it must have seemed like music from mars. I was around but somehow these guys completely flew under my radar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Mike Metlay Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Vako Orchestron Very few made, horrendously unreliable, and who knew? Sustained sounds without recorded attack transients (as on the tape strips of the Mellotron) sound like ass. (Roland took this lesson to heart years later, and the result was a fairly little known and unpopular keyboard called the D-50. You might not have heard of it.) Contrary to popular misconception, the choir sound (and everything else that might have been a Mellotron) on Radio-Aktivität was all Orchestron. They'd started using it on the Autobahn tour, and it was a signature part of their sound until they went all-digital in the 1980s. Not many were made (like, less than 100), nearly all of a single-manual design that looked like a mutant console organ. Sound was read off of plastic spinning discs using a photosensor; Vako planned to release models with multiple manuals (up to four, if a protoype picture in their catalog was to be believed). Patrick Moraz toured with a custom 3-manual one, which was apparently stolen on a tour and never seen again. The same technology was used on the Optigan, which in its later incarnation as the Chilton Talentmaker was actually a not entirely unusable instrument. Quote Dr. Mike Metlay (PhD in nuclear physics, golly gosh) Musician, Author, Editor, Educator, Impresario, Online Radio Guy, Cut-Rate Polymath, and Kindly Pedant Editor-in-Chief, Bjooks ~ Author of SYNTH GEMS 1 clicky!: more about me ~ my radio station (and my fam) ~ my local tribe ~ my day job ~ my book ~ my music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxcvbnm098 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 I had never heard of the Chilton Talentmaker...wow. Crazy! When were those around? Late 70's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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