VINCE CLARKE & REED HAYS - An introduction to the Vako Orchestron

VeryRecords label boss Vince Clarke interviews Reed & Caroline's Reed Hays about his vintage Vako Orchestron synthesiser...
Reed & Caroline's second album 'Hello Science' is out now.
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[@Meteotrance]

The volume pedal trick was one of the best trick use by Mike Pinder from the Moody Blues, he was a magician of the Mellotron Organ , the Vako Orchestron is probably the more reliable and portable version of those kind of audio loop organ, but the Chamberlin was probably the one with the best audio quality .

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

I am now on a miniature quest to find out if this model was used by Alan Lindgren, a pianist and synthesist employed by Neil Diamond from 1970 to 2015. When you listen to his 1976 live album titled Love at the Greek, you hear string and choir sounds which show up in the mix as though Alan was playing them from an Orchestron. They sound too authentic to have been generated by a string synthesizer.

[@vijp7874]

5:56 - We need more inner workings!!

[@angelog.spicolaiii8021]

Tony Carey made good use of this thing on the Rainbow albums 'Rising' & 'On Stage' not sure if David Stone used it on the songs 'Lady of the Lake' or 'Gates of Babylon' on the album 'Long Live Rock & Roll' though, any body know? folks

[@spotlight-kyd]

Lady of the Lake was actually still recorded by Carey, so the choir was probably his orchestron.

[@angelog.spicolaiii8021]

@@spotlight-kyd .... Stone is credited for parts on 'Gate's of Babylon' not sure if it's even used on that number, I'm guessing miniMoog maybe a few other things. David did alot of stuff on 'Long Live Rock'n'Roll' ,like all the piano parts on songs 'TheShed', 'Sensitive to Light', 'LA Connection' that he was payed for not necessarily credited with thanx again dude 😎

[@Lantertronics]

You should make and sell a Caroline sample library.

[@TylerDurden-oy2hm]

if its good enough for kraftwerk its good enough for me....

[@onsesejoo2605]

The film does not sound scratchy if the track containing the sound is in good condition and the optics in proper order.
It feels odd that the sound quality isn't better on the disc as he mentions the lack of high end in the sound. On the films they have full blown orchestra, talking, singing, plus sound effects.

[@tomknight5211]

Random question from out of the blue for Reed: Did you, by chance, attend the Southeastern Music Conference in the summer of 1984?

[@marguskiis7711]

It is a very simple keyboard but they sold it with very expensive price and so they failed massively. And it had some a way stupid designs like the elastic disc which was simply a crap. Why they did not use solid hard discs remain total mystery.

[@eboethrasher]

maybe that was more conducive to the optical recording similar to how a piece of film is?

[@marguskiis7711]

@@eboethrasher film should be elastic because it is packed in pools. The sound disc should not be elastic at all. It was an idiotic solution

[@op-xv3ui]

I wanted to hear the sound of it. Not just listen to this guy gassing on and on and on 😐

[@Lantertronics]

I found the historical explanations to be extremely interesting.

[@op-xv3ui]

@@Lantertronics well bully for you.
I’m really happy for you.

[@lutello3012]

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