Hideaway Studio

In 1984 Dave Smith and his team at Sequential Circuits released the Six-trak which was one of the first instruments not only to feature the then n...

Most should realise by now that I have a fascination for rediscovering old technologies and combining the best of them in a constant attempt to cr...

Bass Machine was in essence an attempt to revisit a commonly used trick of the trade whereby the warm roundness, power and motion of the Minimoog’...

Chromatix is a celebration of yet another successful resurrection of an old classic saved from the grave… This time it was a gorgeous 1983 Rhodes ...

Welcome to the 1980s: A Major New Era in Affordable Digital Technologies… MICRO-5K is in some ways a celebration of a new era in which two increas...

Monopolyphonix was in many ways a celebration of another successful resurrection of an old classic saved from the grave. Much like the Minimoog, A...

The Polivoks (Rus.: Поливокс) was designed by Vladimir Kuzmin with input on the aesthetics from his wife Olimpiada who was apparently inspired by ...

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 1970s were to be a magical time when a string of groundbreaking technology was conceived and developed at Bell Labs (BTL), Murray Hill, New Je...

The Blue Zone, was originally incrementally released as an on-going series of one-off experimental electronic textures and instruments which grew ...

The project started off by acoustically recording 21 tine actuations from a disassembled music box mechanism placed on a wooden sounding board usi...

The 1972 Eminent 310 Unique was a very unusual mix of combo organ and string synthesizer in its own right but what was particularly special about ...

A selection of twelve unique synthetic choirs made up of 215 hand crafted vocal formants. At least 50% of the samples in this collection were cr...

I have always had a bit of a soft spot for evocative cinematic synth strings and especially pseudo realistic string ensembles. Probably as a res...

Around 30 instruments were captured and I’ve tried to draw upon a number of basic synthesis methods including divide down/formant, classic subtr...

Zero-1 is in essence a single oscillator virtual analog synthesizer (VA) loosely based on the CS01 mono-synth which was released in 1982 as an a...