Moog Music Forum

i was once a devoted fan of a band called Kraftwerk

they where once the coolest band out there, as much brilliant as innovative, the absolute vanguard of popular culture

not only their music was perfect but also was so their carefully designed mythography

for me it started one day when i was 8 ...

if not a full blown new polyphonic synth then why not some black box inside which additional Sub37 voices could be added to build polyphony, all controlled by one original Sub37 ?

as i said, i'm not a purist, as far as the result still have the classic Moog sound

from smooth silky strings to brightly dynamic brasses with heart-crusching filters and all the paraphernalia to crush the sound at will

of course there will always be those who will be offended if ever the sacred ...

i think the prices are kept artificially high "thanks" to the glamour of a over-mytified brand name than to the reality of the actual analog parts and analog design.

parts are infinitelly smaller and cheaper to produce now than 40 years ago (i mean modern parts of course)

i don't see why a modern ...

i dream of a new polyphonic Moog synth based on the Sub37 layout but with 8 notes of polyphony and a 5 octave aftertouch sensitive keyboard...

adding dedicated buttons for absolutelly every function and maybe a full multieffect section that would include the wonderfull PolyMoog's resonators ...