Hideaway Studio S-VX

In the mid 80’s AKAI released the infamous S900 which was to be one of the first of a new generation of highly affordable professional samplers.  The S900 and it’s bigger brother, the S950, became big sellers and completely changed the playing field amongst their competitors with their five digit offerings.

The S900 was a 12-bit machine with a tiny 750K memory and a floppy drive for sample storage. At the time it was a revelation but it’s now really very basic by today’s standards.

12 Bit Crunch with Analog Filters

The infamous 13 pin connector permitted the sampler to be used as a complex oscillator source driving the filter stages and VCAs modulated by the envelope generators.  

In short, you get to mix 12-bit digital crunch with the warmth of analog filters!

1938 Novachord #346

This formed the basis of an unusual albeit somewhat clunky hybrid synth…

Sound sources were mostly Minimoog model D but also included 1938 Novachord, 1967 Philicorda GM751, 1978 ARP Omni-2 string section, Roland JUNO-106 polysynth and 3  tube waveshaped 1960’s tube oscillators beating in parallel.

ARP Omni-2 + Novachord

The resulting interim sample set acted as oscillator sources for the VX90. Several patches were programmed on the VX90 to filter the oscillators transposed over five octaves from the S900 and the results from the VX90, including it’s gorgeous analog chorus, was multi-sampled direct from the output in 24-bit stereo.

376 samples were captured in this manner for the library.

The result?…

Complex warm analog oscillator sources transposed over 5 octaves with a touch of 12-bit crunch shaped with classic Curtis VCFs and VCAs!

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Will only work in demo mode with the Free Kontakt Player so please do not buy unless you have the FULL version of Kontakt.

Please notice: This library can not be used with the free Kontakt Player, you need a full version of Kontakt 4.2.4 or higher